by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | Features
Hyperconvergence is the term on everyone’s lips as the benefits that virtualisation has brought to server performance are extended into the realm of storage and networking as well. Seshni Gafoor, hyperconvergence lead at Axiz, explains that the new world of...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | Features
Oracle is one of the world’s leading data centre brands with solutions spanning the complete ecosystem from database, middleware and application software to server and storage hardware, as well as cloud offerings. As a value-added distributor, Axiz Advanced...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | Features
Cognitive computing might sound like science fiction, something that we can look forward to using in the next few decades – but it is a reality today, and resellers should be gearing up for the many opportunities it opens up. Far from being a science fiction concept,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | Features
The trends towards digitalisation offer enormous opportunities for resellers, with software destined to play a bigger role than ever before. Andre Froneman, software business unit manager at Axiz Advanced Technologies, believes that the software-defined era is here,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | Features
Data centers are subject to a range of environmental factors that are out of the control of the CIO – but they can have devastating effects on the infrastructure as well as on the business they support. When we think about keeping the lights on in the IT environment,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | Features
The world of IT security is a vast and complex space. As the number and ingenuity of threats increases on an almost exponential basis, organisations are hard put to ensure the safety of their systems and data. Which is why today, more than ever, IT organisations are...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | news
30 years ago, IT distributor Mustek opened for business. By Kathy Gibson The modest business of components distribution has changed a number of times since then, mirroring the many shifts that the industry has undergone. Not long after it started the components...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | news
Africa’s leaders are not sufficiently addressing the continent’s multiple challenges, leaving a leadership vacuum that is proving difficult to fill. This was the word from a panel on Leadership in an Era of Disruption at the 2017 World Economic Forum on Africa. The...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | news
Radical economic transformation will drive inclusive growth in Africa. President Jacob Zuma, addressing delegates to the World Economic Forum on Africa, says growth cannot be achieved by only a few stakeholders in the economy. “The youth in particular have been very...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 2, 2017 | news
Innovation is key to growing the African economy, and digital startups are starting to make an impact. But the environment is not always conducive to facilitating the success of small, innovative enterprises. Lindiwe Zulu, minister of small business development,...
