Raif Mehmet, VP EMEA, Bitglass explains how cloud adoption will create prospects for channel businesses. Over the last five years, global cloud adoption has grown at an astonishing rate. To put this into context, a recent study by Bitglass into 2019 cloud adoption trends found that almost 90% of businesses have now deployed some sort […]

Gregg Lalle, SVP International Sales, ConnectWise, considers how cloud adoption will create prospects for channel businesses. Cloud adoption has advanced at a staggering rate, enabling managed service providers (MSPs) to evolve and keep pace with the market’s flexibility demands. And yet, we haven’t fully appreciated the amount of capabilities that are available in the public […]

In May 2020, the personal records of more than 24 million South Africans and nearly 794,000 companies were handed over to someone impersonating a client. It’s a hard lesson in how important it is to embed security, not just into the technology and the devices of a company, but into its people. Anna Collard, SVP […]

Rakesh Parbhoo, CEO at Westcon-Comstor, Sub-Saharan Africa explains how businesses can remain flexible during the pandemic. The current pandemic has had a massive negative impact on the world’s economy. The World Bank has forecast a 5.2% contraction in global GDP this year. Meanwhile in South Africa, statistics released on September 8 show the country’s GDP […]

Lorna Hardie, Regional Director at VMware Sub-Saharan Africa, explains how businesses can remain flexible during the pandemic. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic gave impetus to the rapid deployment of digital solutions to enable remote working, many organisations are struggling with the lack of face-to-face engagement. This highlights how it is not simply a matter of […]

Pure Storage, an IT pioneer that delivers Storage-as-a-Service in a multi-cloud world, has announced that Metito, a leading global provider of intelligent water management and alternative energy solutions, has deployed Pure’s technology to improve the performance of its business-critical applications, provide cost predictability and simplify storage management through a unified dashboard. The implementation of Pure’s […]

Remote working has been forced on many, due to the pandemic, and channel businesses have had to respond quickly and stay ahead of the curve. Bradley Pulford, Executive Director and General Manager of Channel and Distribution at Dell Technologies South Africa, explains how channel businesses can help partners and customers thrive and not just survive. […]

Digital signatures help stop the spread of infection during the global pandemic. Debbie Hayes, GlobalSign, explains how digital signatures are proving to be critical during this difficult period. Six months into COVID-19 and the world is still very much in adjustment mode. It has been a difficult year, to say the least. South Africa has […]

Stefan van de Giessen, Cybersecurity Manager at Networks Unlimited Africa, explains how he thinks the role of the reseller will change within the next five years. To answer this question holistically, we need to look at the different types of reseller model within this sphere, namely resellers (box droppers), system integrators and managed service security […]

Alison Hastings, UK&I Channel Lead at Avaya, explains how she thinks the reseller’s role will change within the next five years. Though offices across the world have gradually been re-opening as COVID-19 lockdown measures ease, many organisations are still hesitant to stray from remote working – and why should they, when it keeps their employees […]