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Women in ICT rock …

Feb 6, 2018

August is traditionally the time when we celebrate women in South Africa. We toast successful women, give young women a boost, focus on women’s health, and make a special effort to extend a helping hand to women in need. In the ICT industry, the month is usually...

The hard road to digital transformation

Feb 6, 2018

Charles Dickens tells us, in the opening lines of “A Tale of Two Cities” that “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”. He was comparing England and France in the years before the French Revolution, but could have been talking about the South African IT...

How to survive the downturn …

Feb 6, 2018

It’s reality – South African markets are tough right now. By Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle However, Pinnacle’s attitude is one of resilience. We are striving to better our overall management focus with regards to stock, internal human resources and forecasting...

Leverage trends to create ‘power in chemistry’

Feb 6, 2018

When it comes to technology sales, everything is slower at the moment and it’s as much about the current political uncertainty as our weak currency. However, there is also a huge opportunity to reposition for an uptick that we hope will occur if the currency...

Adapt or die in an agile world

Feb 6, 2018

Businesses must embrace and integrate disruptive technologies strategies or risk being left behind more agile organisations. That’s the word from Valter Adão, chief digital and innovation officer for Deloitte Africa, speaking ahead of the SingularityU South Africa...

Global IT spending set to rebound

Feb 6, 2018

Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase by 4,5% in 2017 in constant currency terms, a significant improvement on last year’s growth of 2,5%, with stronger upgrade cycles for infrastructure and mobile devices leading the improvement in the second half of the...

PC sales continue to decline

Feb 6, 2018

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 61,1-million units in the second quarter of 2017, a 4,3% decline from the second quarter of 2016, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The PC industry is in the midst of a five-year slump, and this is the 11th straight quarter...

AI, analytics accelerate transformation pace

Feb 6, 2018

Gaining competitive advantage and improving business process are among the top goals of companies’ digital transformation strategies. This is according to 40% of 800 organisations in 15 countries on five continents that were interviewed for Dimension Data’s “Digital...

IT and storage trends to look out for

Aug 2, 2017

Mark Bregman, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of NetApp, outlines where he sees the industry going in 2017 The explosion of data in today’s digital economy has resulted in a fundamental shift from using data to run the business to recognising that...

Flash robust as overall storage market drops

Aug 2, 2017

Total EMEA external storage systems revenue fell 5,1% year over year to $1,49-billion in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 3Q16. The flash market recorded huge growth,...

Why does your business need flash?

Aug 2, 2017

Your business relies on storage, but traditional storage has not kept pace with your business. Now flash storage offers a generational leap in performance, while taking less out of your budget. Flash storage is one of the most exciting technologies to arrive in the...

IoT and smart mobility connect us to work in new ways

Aug 2, 2017

We increasingly use our smartphones and other smart mobile devices with screens to view the results of data gathered by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including those connected to workflows. By Jurgen de Jongh The smartphones and their smart cousins are equally...

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