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Retailers need to ride the Easter wave

Easter is a peak trading period for South African retailers. However, in the face of a global pandemic, Easter 2021 must be seen as a golden trading opportunity between Covid-19 waves. “Now is the time for retail merchants to innovate in preparation for consumer...

What to expect in the post-pandemic workplace

South African organisations and employees alike have radically changed how they live and work over the past year. But promising news with the rollout of a vaccine and a potential that “herd immunity” could be attained, companies are starting to look to a post-pandemic...

Is your other home tech safe from hackers?

South Africa is two Covid-19 waves down, with a third wave expected during the winter months of 2021, meaning that the shift to working from home is no longer a short-term solution, but more likely to be a longer term intervention to prevent the spread of this...

Backing the human firewall for better home office protection

Despite the easing of lockdown regulations, working from home has become a business necessity. However, this presents companies with new forms of cybersecurity risks that take advantage of the current market uncertainty. By Lehan van den Heever This is where the...

Secure the distributed network to make remote work safe

A key takeaway from the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown is that millions of employees can successfully work from home; and international reports indicate that remote and hybrid work models are set to remain in place once it is safe for employees to return to offices....

Gazing into the crystal ball

Traditionally, publications kick-off their first editions of the year with a predictions feature, gathering comment from their specific captains of industry on how they see the forthcoming year playing out. And traditionally, specifically in the channel, those...

Tech to lead businesses beyond recovery

Although 2020 might have been a year that no one could have predicted, shrouded with uncertainty, technology was the one constant. Helping businesses become more agile and connected with communities in different ways, it provided an essential part of our human and...

Trends to watch this year

After a very long 2020 I believe that the enterprise IT market has gotten used to our changed world and we should see a return to previous levels of growth in 2021. By Peter Mülders, Synthesis customer success manager Cloud infrastructure and SaaS tools are going to...

IT security recommendations for business

Remote work will be the catalyst for a shift from the corporate perimeter concept to micro-office security certification; outsourcing of IT and cybersecurity functions will be crucial to solve expertise shortages and save budgets; to coordinate managed service...

Themes that will impact the TMT industry

Companies which invest in the right themes become success stories, while those who miss the big themes end up as failures, according to data and analytics specialist GlobalData. Therefore, it has revealed its predictions for 2021 across the technology, media, and...

How to secure a work-from-anywhere environment

When Covid-19 closed offices worldwide, it created a new urgency for organisations of all kinds and sizes — and particularly the CIOs, CISOs and IT leaders within them — to secure their remote work environments. By Jim Alkove, chief trust officer at Salesforce As the...

Should you ditch your business phone?

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provider Zoom launched Zoom Phone in South Africa last year, having launched it in 2019 in limited markets. By Nic Laschinger, chief technology officer of Euphoria Telecom Following on from the launch of Skype for Business...

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