Trends and Analysis - Channelwise

People plus AI key to resilience

Aug 7, 2026

There’s barely any part of the IT landscape that is untouched by artificial intelligence (AI) – and cybersecurity is arguably the most affected of all. Cybercriminals are typically a step or two ahead of those opposing them, and AI has given them to tools to launch...

Security in the post-Mythos era

Aug 7, 2026

By Yuri Kramarz – In 2023, a colleague and I wrote a cybersecurity guide for businesses of any size. It was not glamorous work. Nobody was asking for another whitepaper about multi-factor authentication (MFA) and network segmentation. The industry had heard it...

Industrial automation channels are co‑creators in the AI era

Aug 7, 2026

As industrial automation becomes increasingly software‑driven and AI‑enabled, the role of the channel partner is undergoing a profound shift. The next generation of partners will be measured not by the products they sell, but by their ability to design, integrate and...

What do African youth want?

Aug 3, 2026

Africa’s young people are more optimistic about the future of their countries, economies and the continent than at any point since the pandemic – but they are demanding jobs, cleaner government, safer communities, a stronger political voice and a model of...

Building an operating model for partner-led growth

Jul 31, 2026

Partner-led growth can quickly extend your market reach. It can also leave you forecasting demand without full visibility of the customer pipeline, serving customers through partners while bearing the consequences of delivery failures, service problems and...

How young people can start a career in IT without a university degree

Jul 28, 2026

Rodney De Koch shares practical advice for young people who want to enter the IT industry and build a successful career in technology. With over 30 years of experience working across government, global technology companies, and international projects, Rodney now...

When fraud looks like a good customer

Jul 24, 2026

By Amritha Reddy – The most dangerous fraud today does not appear suspicious. It looks like your best customer. For decades, fraud detection has focused on identifying behaviour that falls outside expected patterns. A new category of fraud is now rewriting that...

Enterprises must prepare for digital conflict

Jul 24, 2026

By David C Howell – Geopolitical conflict is no longer confined to land, sea, or air, but unfolds silently across digital infrastructure too. Today, it unfolds silently across networks, servers, and endpoints. Governments, critical infrastructure operators, and...

AI is changing the rules of cybercrime

Jul 24, 2026

By Avinash Gupta – Cybersecurity has always been a constant race between attackers and defenders. As organisations strengthen their security tools, cybercriminals continually devise new ways to bypass them. Today, the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI)...

SA CISOs are flying blind on AI agents. But POPIA won’t care why

Jul 24, 2026

Ask any South African CISO how many AI agents are running in their environment right now and most will be hard pressed to answer. This is the uncomfortable truth behind the local rush to deploy agentic AI, and it is happening while many of the same organisations are...

Seagate’s New 32TB Drives: Meeting South Africa’s Growing Data Demands

Jul 24, 2026

South African organisations are generating more data than ever before. From AI-driven analytics and cloud applications to high-resolution surveillance footage and business-critical backups, businesses are under increasing pressure to store and protect vast amounts of...

What’s the current state of AI-ready data centre infastructure?

Jul 24, 2026

For artificial intelligence (AI) to thrive, we need a robust and sustainable data centre structure. Channelwise asked a panel of AI experts about the current state of AI-ready data centre capacity in South Africa and Africa, and what build-out we an expect. Ziaad...

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