While United States and EU grapple with legislation around AI and its consequences, there are no guiding principles limiting development of AI technologies with respect to weapons of war explains Morgan Wright at SentinelOne. Milton Friedman, the famed American economist and the 1976 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, made a point […]

Amazon Payment Services, a regional vendor in digital payments operating across the Middle East and North Africa region, has been granted a Retail Payment Services license by the UAE Central Bank. Marking a significant milestone for the business, this license enables Amazon Payment Services to unlock an enhanced offering for its merchants across the country, […]

Toshiba Gulf, a fully owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan managing the MEA region for storage products and solutions announced the launch of its Build Your Own Data Centre initiative across the Middle East and Africa. This initiative will help its channel partners adapt to a data-driven future while optimising costs and performance. In a […]

The reseller that can develop knowledge to understand vendor offerings, understand customer environment, propose the solution that best meets these needs, is the reseller that will be most successful in hybrid backup says Kate Mollett at Commvault Africa. In recent years many more organisations have embraced Software as a Service, SaaS, particularly Backup as a […]

GBM Shield is GBM’s comprehensive cybersecurity built on Cor., an MDR platform powered by machine learning, automation, orchestration, giving insight to foresight, which has been recognised by IDC in its MarketScape Assessment. The complexities of today’s digital ecosystem, technology stack, IT and OT convergence, and evolving threat landscape have made it difficult for CIOs and […]

With 450,000 malwares detected every day and staggering 3.4 billion daily phishing emails entering inboxes, the addition of ChatGPT is likely to take attack and defence to a new level explains David Hoelzer at SANS Institute. The launch of ChatGPT took the world by storm creating a host of new opportunities and challenges, virtually overnight. […]

Partners should take advantage of ecosystems vendors have built. The shift to cloud solution selling enable partners to develop value-add services around solutions and ecosystems. Executives from Riverbed, HPE, Liferay share their perspectives. Ghassan Abou Rjeily, Regional Channel Sales Manager Emerging EMEA, Riverbed With the appetite for cloud adoption having scaled exponentially in recent years, […]

Four cloud, data centre and edge infrastructure trends will set the groundwork for the future as I&O teams pivot to support new technologies and ways of working says Paul Delory at Gartner. The future of cloud, data centres and edge infrastructure is poised to be led by infrastructure and operations teams, with four major global […]

With third-party software support, enterprises have freedom and autonomy back and teams are in complete control of their technology roadmap says Martin Biggs at Spinnaker Support. During periods of global economic and political uncertainty, enterprises have a hard task on their hands. Not only must they continue normal operations, but now it also becomes essential […]

Nothing can be more frustrating than discovering your trusted channel partner is lacking in vital areas and Rachel Thorne at Espria shares a five-point checklist to discover this. With digital transformation, the only certainty in the years to come is uncertainty. We have seen that resilient and agile companies are more likely to survive the challenges facing businesses as technology evolves. […]