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Consumers recognise the importance of backups

Consumers have become more reliant on personal data for everything from health records, financial documents, home video and photos, social media videos and more. With a massive 63% of respondents to a global Researchscape study having lost data to device failure,...

Expert BaaS the key to data resilience

Organisations across Africa are rapidly adopting cloud-native and harnessing hybrid, multicloud models. If not managed correctly, this can lead to increased complexity and risk to backup and recovery. Backup as a service (BaaS) overcomes these challenges, says Matthew...

Cyber resilience goes beyond backup

By Rekha Shenoy – Backup has evolved from a focus on hardware failure and data loss into a complex battle against sophisticated cyber threats.   The Escalating Threat Landscape Threats today have transitioned from basic attacks to intricate, multi-vector...

Storage drives growth in bare metal cloud

The global bare metal cloud market size is expected to reach $52,66-billion by 2033, registering a CAGR of 20,7% from 2025 to 2033, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Factors such as increased demand for secure storage facilities and rapid developments...

Partnering key to tackling IT skills gaps

With its young and tech-savvy population, South Africa should be leaps and bounds ahead of many countries when it comes to the IT economy. But there’s a very real IT skills gap – and all stakeholders need to throw their weight behind this massive challenge. A...

How to alleviate the IT skills crisis

The Channelwise/CompTIA round-table discussion ended with some valuable advice about how to tackle South Africa’s IT skills shortages. Employers must take skills development more seriously: Businesses increasingly rely on technology, so IT training cannot be a...

Meet the round-table participants

These are the training industry experts who shared their thoughts in the Channelwise/CompTIA round-table discussion on the state of IT skills in South Africa. Loraine Vorster is the vice-president: sub-Saharan Africa at CompTIA She is passionate about skills...

Microsoft puts AI skills in the spotlight

Innovation is the fuel of the future, with new artificial intelligence (AI) tools set to increase productivity, save time, and allow us to come up with new ways to save the planet. By Kathy Gibson At its recent AI Skills Day, Colin Erasmus, chief operating officer at...

SA must act now to compete globally

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is no longer a future concept or a speculative technology. It is here now, rapidly reshaping industries and rewriting the rules of competitiveness. By Ntsako Baloyi In South Africa, the potential for generative AI to drive...

Are SA children ready to tackle the future world of work?

We often speak of South Africa’s youngest citizens as tomorrow’s leaders – the future innovators, decision-makers and drivers of change. But are we truly investing in that future? According to the thrivebyfive index, which measures whether South African children are...

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