Arcserve Southern Africa has urged South African businesses to take a proactive approach to Business Continuity and Data Recovery (BCDR) or risk becoming the next data breach headline. “In today’s digital world, the issues of data privacy and data security are sources of significant concern for organisations,” said Byron Horn-Botha, Arcserve Southern Africa, Lead: Channel […]

Matthieu Brignone, Head of EMEA Channel and Alliances at Pure Storage, talks about how partners can help enterprises dispel some of the myths around Artificial Intelligence. Data is a catalyst for growth and innovation, with the power to transform the way a business operates and how it serves its customers. In fact, data is so […]

Amol Kadam, Co-Founder of RBBi, looks at this year’s digital trends The discussion of ‘Digital Transformation’ or ‘Technology Transformation’ started more than a decade ago. But many believed that transformation purely revolves around technology, but 2018 showed that this trend would end at some point. If you think about technology in isolation, the transformation will […]

While organisations will relook at their structure and job roles to enable successful Digital Transformation across 2019, other key activity areas will be automation of customer experiences and the supply chain, explains Paul Potgieter, Managing Director – UAE, Dimension Data.   As organisations get moving on the Digital Transformation road map, they may abruptly find themselves […]

The rise of multi-cloud brings challenges and benefits, according to Anton Jacobsz, Managing Director at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited Africa. Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing mix that uses a combination of on-premises, private cloud and third party, public cloud services, with orchestration between the two platforms. By allowing workloads to move between private and […]

As new and emerging technologies continue to redefine IT and business, the pace of change and technological advancement is accelerating. Sami Abi Esber, President of system integrator MDS Gulf and a board member of the Midis Group, shares his views on the top technologies that regional organisations can leverage to transform their business in 2019. […]

The channel market is changing. There is a trend emerging where solutions across different categories are combining to create a more holistic, horizontal approach to the channel offering. But companies are also demanding hyper-specialised businesses and application technology skills from vendors. And, according to Westcon and Ruckus Networks, this outlook is set to continue in […]

South Africans are preparing to once again embrace ‘Black Friday; where retailers offer massive discounts for both online as well as bricks-and-mortar shoppers. However, consumers are being warned because, in the same way that scammers come out to try and relieve people of their money in the physical world, the beginning of the November/December retail […]