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Virus exposes outdated risk management

Organisations’ current approach to risk governance is not sufficient to tackle the complex risk environment they are facing today. According to Gartner, the Covid-19 pandemic is just the latest in a line of recent risk events demonstrating that organisations are not...

Companies make the switch to remote working

A Gartner survey of 800 global HR executives on March 17 found that 88% of organisations have encouraged or required employees to work from home, regardless of whether or not they showed coronavirus-related symptoms. Nearly all organisations (97%) have canceled...

Supercomputers join the global fight against Covid-19

IBM, in collaboration with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the US Department of Energy and others, is helping launch the Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The grouping will bring an unprecedented amount of computing power –...

QBS Group partners with Pipol

Microsoft Dynamics partner QBS Group has joined forces with Pipol to enable partners to assign and engage in international opportunities. With over 160 offices in more than 85 countries, Pipol is the largest international provider of consulting and implementation...

Think Tank, Fortinet tackle cybersecurity skills gap

Fortinet has announced its first Fortinet Network Security Academy (FNSA) in South Africa, with Think Tank, a private higher learning organisation providing IT solutions, training, recruitment and professional services. The program aims to provide industry-recognized...

Short-term impact for wearables

The global wearables market is expected to grow 9,4% in 2020, reaching 368,2-million shipments according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. This marks a significant slowing of the market compared to...

Demand for Internet infrastructure up 30%

Internet infrastructure has experienced significant growth in demand due to the increased amount of people confined to their homes, consequently working and shopping remotely due to the enforced precautionary measures. Having most of our daily activities migrating to...

Corex limits operations during Covid-19

In light of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for action to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19, Corex is limiting its operations for the next few days. As a precautionary measure, the distributor is closing its Johannesburg and Cape Town offices...

Server shipments grew 5,1% in Q4

The worldwide server market continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2019 as revenue increased 5,1% and shipments grew 11,7% year over year, according to Gartner. In all of 2019, worldwide server shipments declined 3,1% and server revenue declined 2,5% compared with...

How Africa is handling Covid-19

More than 600 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in 34 countries in Africa as of 19 March, compared with 147 cases one week ago. Although the region has seen a significant increase in confirmed cases recently, there are still fewer cases than in other parts of the...

Aruba names Sherifa Hady as EMEA channel sales director

Aruba has announced the appointment of Sherifa Hady as the channel sales director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In her role, Hady will oversee the channel team, working closely with them to build partnerships with resellers and distributors across the region,...

Leaders not trusted to manage disruption

Only 15% of business executives worldwide have confidence in their own top leadership successfully to manage disruption – including unexpected events like pandemics, technological advances, shifting demographics, and climate change. This is according to a global...

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