by Kathy Gibson | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured Story, Features
While small business owners cannot insure against load shedding, they can act to understand and manage their risks, significantly reducing the impact of load shedding on their businesses. Understanding what can go wrong in a small business when load shedding hits and...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 19, 2020 | Events/Report-backs
The Mustek Roadshow, taking place at Emperors’ Palace in Kempton Park, features displays and presentations from the distributor’s vendor partners. Today (19 February), the event targets resellers, while tomorrow (20 February), end users will gain the most value from...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 19, 2020 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson is at the Mustek Roadshow in Kempton Park – Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, coined the mission statement: empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft has a world view that focuses on people-centred experiences; artificial...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 19, 2020 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson is at the Mustek Roadshow in Kempton Park – There has been a massive spike in the number of threats and vulnerabilities that users are subject to – and Lenovo is taking the issue of security seriously. All Lenovo products are secure by design, and...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Doing business in Africa is still a double-edged sword; despite the steady economic growth, there is still the inability to leverage this growth into sustainable development policies and plans. The continent is crippled by corruption. Blockchain technology might not...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
The level and pace of disruption driven by technology is unprecedented. Indicative of the magnitude of this disruption, in the McKinsey report, Winning in an era of unprecedented disruption: A perspective on US retail, Jess Huang, Sajal Kohli and Shruti Lal speak of...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation have become critical to security. The sheer volume of attempted attacks means that it is impossible for human analysts to examine them all to identify real and serious threats. AI and automation can filter and validate the...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
What businesses want from the cloud is changing. Pure cloud adopters fear vendor lock-in and are increasingly seeking to spread risk by embracing multiple cloud providers. In fact, our own research found that more than half (58%) of companies that currently use one...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Offshore investing sounds like a daunting experience to many investors. On top of what you need to understand about a local investment, there are many more aspects to offshore investing. In some of the more extreme cases you may even have to think of an offshore...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 14, 2020 | Features
As enterprises’ demands look set to continue maturing in 2020, they are better able to distinguish between cloud platforms and identify which ones work best for their applications. “It’s no longer about moving to cloud, it’s about which cloud,” says Andrew Cruise,...
