by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Features
In terms of risk versus reward, cybercrime is a highly lucrative industry. Research from Atlas VPN suggests that cyberattacks generate more than $1,5-trillion in revenue each year, and this figure is growing. By Simeon Tassev, MD and qualified security assessor at...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Features
Data is being generated at an unprecedented pace, offering new opportunities for analysis and insight – but only if it can be managed effectively. While we may be generating more data than ever, we also understand less of it than ever. By Johan Scheepers, country head...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Features
The global data centre services market is expected to register a compound annual growth rate of 13.69% during the 2019 to 2024 period reflecting their importance in a digitally-driven business environment. As part of this, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) will...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
New research from SearchInform has shed light on companies’ experiences in shifting to remote work and keeping business processes going. The analysis, the organization says, demonstrates the approach to overcoming current obstacles and gives statistics on how...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The universal work from home experiment set forth by the global pandemic has changed long-held misconceptions about remote work. By Tim Minahan, executive vice-president of strategy and chief marketing officer of Citrix Executives and managers, once dubious that ‘real...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The coronavirus pandemic has had a tremendous impact on business, and as a result, it has created significant uncertainty about what lies ahead. This ‘unknown’ is crippling business leaders from making decisions or taking strategic action. However, according to Sandra...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The Department of Employment and Labour has approved a temporary employer/employee relief scheme (TERS). This enables employers to pay employees with funds made available by the UIF as a TERS allowance. Certain conditions must be met for the UIF to pay the amount to...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The Covid-19 pandemic has created immense risks to public and private sector organisations as they grapple with new business models, a suddenly-distributed workforce, and widespread uncertainty and disruption. By Isabel Papadakis, head: Africa industry value advisory...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
As the economy opens up, following the slow phasing out of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, many businesses are returning to work. For small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), who have lost out on eight weeks of trade, the process of reopening their doors and...
by Kathy Gibson | May 22, 2020 | Events/Report-backs
Covid-19 scuppered plans for SUSECon, which was going to be held in Dublin this year. But it couldn’t stop the event from going ahead digitally. Kathy Gibson attended SUSECon Digital ’20 to find out what the open source software company has been doing over the past...
