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Who’s at the helm? ‘Darth Vader’, Bernie or Chase Carey?

Jan 27, 2017

Formula One’s much-publicised sale for $4,4-billion to the Liberty Media Group could set the stage for one of the sport’s biggest shakeups in its 66-year history. By Graham Duxbury, MD of Duxbury Networking If the deal is passed by anti-trust regulators, Liberty will...

How to successfully manage cyber-risk

Jan 27, 2017

In today’s threat landscape, the sheer volume of cyber threats is overwhelming, and getting bigger every day. Research estimates that the global cost of cyber-crime is running in the billions of dollars annually. By Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Phoenix Distribution...

Your printing is costing more than it should

Jan 27, 2017

Printing costs can soar for many reasons, but there is a simple way to solve this. By Ronnie Oeschger, divisional director: Xerox indirect channels at Bytes Document Solutions Considering that on average, some 15% of the overall IT budget of a typical small and medium...

Fourth industrial revolution poses new security challenges

Oct 10, 2016

The coming years will see an increasing convergence of the physical, digital and biological realms. Termed ‘Industry 4.0’ or ‘the fourth industrial revolution’, this trend describes a future where billions of people and devices are seamlessly connected with large...

Opportunities bring new challenges for mobile operators

Oct 10, 2016

Today operators face challenges on multiple fronts, which include decreasing revenue per user; the gradual erosion of SMS revenues as phones have become ‘smarter’; apps and OTT services devaluing lots of operator innovation investments; the cost of infrastructure...

Demystifying the myths of channel and cloud

Sep 7, 2016

Over the past 10 years, cloud computing has moved from a technology that companies were experimenting with to part of the mainstream and something organisations of all sizes turn to for their technology workloads. With that in mind, cloud can now be considered the new...

Don’t ignore these enterprise computing megatrends

Aug 23, 2016

Guy Whitcroft, CEO at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa, talks about the megatrends in enterprise comping, and what resellers should do to stay on top of the game. Technological change is the heartbeat of the IT industry and while it is easy to get sucked into the...

UC&C presents new opportunities for skilled resellers

Aug 23, 2016

Andy Robb, chief technology officer at Duxbury Networking, explains that it’s difficult to quantify the magnitude of the current explosion in mobile data traffic. One industry source predicts it will reach 18 exabytes (18-billion gigabytes) per month in just two...

A reputable partner adds value to telcos

Aug 23, 2016

As businesses start to take advantage of bandwidth-intensive technology, Tier 1 carriers in the telecommunications sector (telcos) need to ensure that they have the capability meet the ever increasing demand for bandwidth, writes Eckart Zollner, head of business...

SMEs impact on cloud service providers

Aug 23, 2016

Small and medium businesses (SMB) need innovative, complex, layered security in depth at the application level for their cloud-based applications and services in an emerging world of significantly ramped up global, and sophisticated distributed denial of service...

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