by Kathy Gibson | Apr 17, 2020 | news
Cyber Security South Africa (CSSA), the Bitdefender Country Partner in South Africa and its SMME distribution partner, have appointed Workflow Managed Services as a reseller of the Bitdefender range. Simon Campbell-Young, partner at CS Africa Group Holdings, says that...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 17, 2020 | news
Veritas Technologies has announced significant enhancements to its Veritas Partner Force (VPF) Program specifically designed to incent growth and drive partner profitability. The program is customised to support current and attract new partners by adding generous...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 15, 2020 | Features
Lenovo storage users stand to benefit from the hardware vendor’s close alliance with Veeam that assures them of a seamless cloud-based data management and backup experience. Ketan Jeevan, brand manager: Lenovo at First Distribution, explains that the two companies...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) mean different things to different organisations. Some may look to implement smart factories; others could aim to quickly analyse multiple data streams; for some a new and better way of serving...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) released the ICT Covid-19 National Disaster Regulations on 6 April. By Peter Grealy, Nozipho Mngomezulu and Cindy Leibowitz from Webber Wentzel Given that each day of non-compliance with certain of the...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Jared Waters, a principal at Bravura Structured Solutions, highlights the potential complexities that could arise for corporate South Africa amidst the country’s Covid-19 lockdown, and the myriad knock-on effects it will have on business. Amongst these is the critical...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Features
The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown has exposed weaknesses in many organisations’ workforce management practices. While the unique circumstances forced companies to quickly embrace remote working, many were completely unprepared to manage users in their...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
South African companies – especially small and medium businesses – are facing tough times as the second week of the national lockdown takes effect and as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause turmoil in economies across the world. By Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
While South Africa is well into its 35-day lockdown, most of the world has been shaken to its core. A large percentage of the global population is in some form of a lockdown and those who are not in government-mandated lockdowns are mostly taking extreme measures to...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 14, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Following announcement of the actions taken by government to combat the Covid-19 crisis, many South Africans may be aware of the proposed tax measures that are effective from 1 April 2020. By Jean du Toit, tax attorney at Tax Consulting SA There is, however, an...