The opportunity for Microsoft’s African data centres
Chris Hathaway, founder and director of Soarsoft International, explores the opportunities and implications of local data centre availability for African enterprises already using Office 365 and Azure....
View ArticleMore about the DBE’s hacking incident
The Department of Basic Education’s website was recently hacked by the Islamic State, posting gory pictures and a message about the US Government. Following this incident, Bryan Hamman, territory...
View ArticleReduce your risk of identity theft
More than 15-million people are victims of identity theft annually, many of whom fall into the less tech savvy 50 and over age group. Moreover, identity theft is very hard to prevent because so much of...
View ArticleAvailability to accelerate for rest of 2017
Nes that Microsoft will bring two Azure servers online in South Africa next year has caused a buzz of excitement in the local market. Veeam Software believes that this will significantly impact...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s data centres to boost SA cloud adoption
Microsoft’s announcement that it plans to build hyperscale data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg to deliver a range of cloud services, is set to give a massive boost to enterprise adoption of...
View ArticleRubrik’s remote cloud backup launched in SA
Networks Unlimited has announced the availability of Rubrik Edge. Edge is an evolution of Rubrik’s award-winning cloud-based data management platform – so remote offices can easily backup data locally,...
View ArticleTechnology assists in facilities management
In any business, data holds the power to drive the bottom line, ensure uptime and feed an informed strategy for the future. With financial constraints impacting facility operations, managers face...
View ArticleB2B marketplace slashes e-commerce costs
E-commerce business marketplace, XAfricaMart.com, offers SMMEs the ability to build their brand, promote their products and sell online to businesses nationally. “Businesses marketing and selling...
View ArticleLet’s start beating back unemployment
The private sector has a significant role to play in growing business-ready skills and curtailing unemployment, says Alan Turnley-Jones, executive for services: Middle East and Africa at Dimension...
View ArticleThings to consider for your contact centre
Rapidly developing technologies and the need to integrate customer services across all channels has significantly changed the contact centre space in the last few years. Regardless of the motivation...
View ArticleSmall data crucial for the IoT ecosystem
The volume of data that the billions of things lying at the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT) will generate needs a comprehensive strategy for protocol mediation, processing, analysing, storing,...
View ArticleMeet the next generation of cybersecurity
Millennials, the name given to the demographic cohort born between about 1980 and 2000, are members of what is now the largest living generation. As they mature into 20- and 30-something professionals,...
View ArticleArbor Networks further automates DDoS attack mitigation
Arbor Networks has announced a new version of its on-premise, always-on, inline distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) detection and mitigation platform for enterprise customers, Arbor Networks APS....
View ArticleEmployees cover up cybersecurity incidents
Employees hide IT security incidents in 40% of businesses around the world (this figure is 48% for South African businesses) according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, “Human...
View ArticleSophos placed in UTM Leaders Quadrant
Sophos has once again been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls)”. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a...
View ArticleThe rise of the CaaS platform
Today’s enterprises recognise the critical importance of rapidly delivering new technology services to customers, partners, and employees. To stay ahead of the curve, many are changing the way they...
View ArticleCan data storage and recovery drive transformation?
Digital transformation is fast becoming an over-used term; the likely reason being that it is a catch-all phrase which means different things to different people, or organisations. For many, digital...
View ArticleCybersecurity starts with training employees
The Petya ransomware attack that hit computers around the world recently, the second in two months, is yet another reminder that computers play key roles in most enterprises, and that it does not take...
View ArticleGet on the road to digital transformation
According to a recent survey by E-consultancy, customer experience will overtake price and product specifications as the key brand differentiator by 2020. Add to this the fact that customers are more...
View ArticleEconz Wireless releases Timecard GPS
Econz Wireless has released another new feature for Econz Timecard. Clock-in Lock lets companies restrict the location where the employees can clock in. “Many of our customers with one or more job...
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