by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Cloud provides the enabling deployment model for the times in which we live, writes Andrew Brinded, vice president and sales chief operating officer at Nutanix. In 1991, the renowned technology journalist Stewart Alsop made a famously wrong forecast. “I predict that...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 12, 2020 | Thought Leadership
This is not the new normal, it’s the normal, and organisations need to be prepared. It’s impossible to avoid it. The pandemic, the conversations that swirl around it, and the belief that the changing landscapes of work and interaction are the ‘new normal’, but this is...
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...
