by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Covid-19 is a global pandemic, evolving at unprecedented speed and scale. It is creating a universal imperative for governments and organisations to take immediate action to protect their people. By Vukani Mngxati, CEO of Accenture in Africa Self-quarantine. Social...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Features
The software-defined networking (SD-WAN) infrastructure market is expected to top $5-billion by 2023 with a compound annual growth rate from 2018 of 30,8%. By Westcon-Comstor’s Rentia Booysen It has become one of the most critical segments of enterprise...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Features
IoT is advancing rapidly, thanks to a flood of low cost, low power devices in the market. AI-enabled command and control is the next milestone. This is the word from IoT experts at an Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) Special...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Features
The ability of service and solution providers like us to be able to deliver this level of solution has caused several positive knock-on effects with wider market ramifications. By Wessel Wessels, head of sales: alternative energy at NEC XON Financial instruments have...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
While journalists and commentators have focused on lessons from Asia in relation to the current Covid-19 pandemic, with some referencing pandemics that have hit Europe and North America in the past, a less obvious question to ask is whether there are also lessons from...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
With companies needing to support remote working strategies and with a rise in demand for cloud-based business continuity tools and services during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is expected that the global cloud market size will grow from $233-billion in 2019 to reach...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Having rushed to keep the remote lights on in the early stages of lockdown, organisations must now change their focus to mitigating a plethora of risks emerging out of the pandemic chaos, writes Paul Grapendaal, head of managed services at Nclose. With little time to...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Features
Having a secure and efficient distributed working environment has become one of the top business priorities of 2020, writes David Browne, regional executive at Telviva. With the lockdown in South Africa, many companies have had to embrace remote working as a critical...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Humanitarian crises will always have significant implications for businesses. Covid-19 has put pressure on economic growth, causing a massive slowdown in world trade and disruptions across global supply chains. What is more, companies that built markets on the back of...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Features
Starting a new job in an employee’s career is usually an exciting event with the additional prospect of increasing their earning potential in most cases. With the evolution of payroll systems over the years, it is natural to accept that there should not be any...