by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Features
It’s very likely that you’ve been using the internet for many years now and already forgotten how many different accounts you’ve created. However, old accounts pose a real threat as there’s a big chance they store a lot of sensitive data. If one of your old accounts...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Features
When it comes to fraud, the impact of the production and sale of counterfeit goods is just as detrimental to the economy as cyber crime and identity theft. This issue came under the spotlight in 2019 when there was an outright war that was waged by the South African...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Features
Medium-size businesses do not have to stand back and watch the transformation of large organisations. The floodgates of technology have opened for everyone. Medium businesses, in particular, can take huge advantage of fantastic breakthroughs available at very...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
The global information technology (IT) industry heads into 2020 balancing its drive to produce new products and services while addressing issues that are often byproducts of innovation. This is according to the “IT Industry Outlook 2020” report from CompTIA. Moving...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
The IT market in sub-Saharan Africa looks set to remain under pressure throughout 2020 as enterprise customers trim their spending in the face of market uncertainty. Resellers that want to drive growth in this market will need to focus on the emerging opportunities in...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Features
Security has to be baked into any cloud solution. When organisations trust their systems to the cloud, they expect security to be a given. Azure goes a step further: its proactive approach to security, compliance, and privacy is unique, with Microsoft leading the...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
If you are a gender champion, then you are familiar with the discussions around the glass cliff. The story of women eager to defy the odds, accepting leadership roles at times of crisis, when the chance of failure is the highest. The truth is that many bold glass...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Markets across Africa are evolving, possibly more rapidly than ever before in history, and this is largely due to continuous advances in and the growing uptake of digital technology. In commemorating Africa Industrialisation Day and the 2019 theme of ‘Inclusive and...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
As cloud entered its teen years in 2019, South Africa remains a late adopter of what is globally an established technology. Jason Penton, co-founder, Jini Guru, a cloud platform builder, says that in the 13 years that cloud has been around, the technology landscape...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 22, 2019 | Features
The heart of the enterprise has always been the network – and it has become more relevant than ever in today’s world of always-on connectivity. Marcel Fouche, GM for the networking and storage business unit at Networks Unlimited, points out that the move to...