by Kathy Gibson | Jun 10, 2020 | news
Trend Micro has announced the appointment of Conner Smith as its new head of partnerships and alliances for the sub-Saharan Africa region. Smith joins the team effective 1 June 2020, and will be responsible for leading the company’s channel sales and alliance...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 10, 2020 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports from a SUSE/SAB&T TEC webinar on how organisations can save money while reducing complexity with SUSE Manager. The rise of Linux popularity Linux is seeing a huge surge in popularity – which s not surprising when you consider the...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 10, 2020 | news
Xilica, a supplier of digital signal processing technology for AV and installed sound, has appointed TOA Electronics Southern Africa, a subsidiary of TOA Group, as its distribution partner for Xilica DSP products in South Africa and select markets in sub-Saharan...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Thought Leadership
The public cloud uptake in South Africa has accelerated over the last number of years. By JK Kanis, cloud and enterprise business group lead at Microsoft South Africa A study by data analytics firm IDC found that spending on public cloud services will nearly triple...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Features
Huawei was a little-known name in the South African market just 10 years ago. A handful of people knew the organisation as a supplier of telecommunications equipment and cabling, but it didn’t really feature outside of that specialised area. When Mustek announced that...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Features
Data and analytics fuel digital business and play a vital role in the future survival of organisations worldwide. By Adriaan Hubinger, engagement manager: data, information and analytics at Decision Inc This, however, means very little if employees are unable to...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Features
Over the last few weeks, most organisations have managed to get at least some of their key workers set up to operate from home. There is also a growing recognition that once the lockdown is over, work is not going to simply go back to normal. So there is also a...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Features
Due to coronavirus crisis, companies are seeing an unprecedented amount of remote work. While this move creates obvious challenges for IT in terms of infrastructure and capacity, it’s also creating challenges for security teams as they push to scale remote work on a...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Features
Internet service provicer ikeja Wireless has ensured that it can cater for the surge in usage during the lockdown period with the help of ISP and network specialist, eNetworks. “With the outbreak of Covid-19, we knew that we were going to have to move fast to get the...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 5, 2020 | Thought Leadership
When it comes to digital transformation, Covid-19 has been a massive accelerant, writes Thibault Dousson, GM of Lenovo South Africa. Businesses with long-term transformation deadlines have been forced to bring them forward dramatically: what was once planned for 18...
