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Strategic leadership appointments at Veeam

Veeam Software has announced a boost to its EMEA channel strategy with the appointment of three new leaders: Nick McAlister as channel director UKI; Charbel Zreiby as channel director EMEA East; and Roman Brandl as enterprise channel director EMEA. “Veeam is setting a...

Westcon-Comstor adds Meter’s enterprise networking

Westcon-Comstor has signed a new distribution agreement with Networking-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider Meter. The deal sees Westcon-Comstor become Meter’s first distributor in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), allowing the region’s channel partners to leverage a...

AI, resilience, growth key for financial services CEOa

Financial services leaders across Africa are entering 2026 with renewed confidence, placing artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, regulatory resilience and strategic growth at the centre of their transformation agendas. This is the headline finding from KPMG’s...

Global memory, storage shortages hit SA tech prices

The on-going global memory and storage shortage is having a measurable impact on pricing across the South African technology market. Mahomed Cassim, CEO of Esquire, notes that the current shortage is being driven largely by structural shifts in global demand rather...

Cassava and AXON Networks take AI to Africa

Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks have announced a strategic partnership to co-develop, deploy, and manage what they believe to be Africa’s first end-to-end Operator-as-a-Service (OaaS) platform. Customers and service providers will leverage AXON’s AI-ready,...

Cisco launches new Cisco 360 Partner Program

Cisco has announced the launch of the Cisco 360 Partner Program after fifteen months of co-design with partners. Cisco’s success is built on close collaboration with its partners to meet customer needs in the fast-changing AI world. Now, Cisco is boosting how it...

Phungela partners with AeroCloud to accelerate digital transformation

Digital transformation firm Phungela has announced a strategic partnership with global airport operations technology provider AeroCloud, rolling modern, cloud-native airport solutions across Africa. AeroCloud currently supports operations at over 80 airports...

Thauronix to distribute curated security solutions

Thauronix has announced that it is the distributor for NeoWave, Sectona, TransferChain, SecurityScorecard, Pulseway and WithSecure, bringing a curated portfolio of cybersecurity and IT operations solutions to customers and channel partners. Expanded access to strong...

IT distribution revenues reached record $24,3bn

Sales through the IT distribution channel increased 6% year over year to $24,3-billion in Q4 2025, marking the strongest quarter on record for North American distribution, according to the IDC North America Distribution Tracker (NADT), powered by GTDC. The record Q4...

Windows 11 upgrades boost 2025 PC shipments

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71,5-million units in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 9,3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the full year, worldwide PC shipments totaled more than 270-million units, a 9,1%...

2025 holiday PC shipments exceed expectations

Global PC shipments grew 9,6% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2025, reaching 76,4-million units, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The results cap off a...

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