Calling all resellers: vote for your favourites

South Africa’s IT resellers are urged to name their favourite vendors and distributors, giving them the opportunity to win one of the coveted titles in the Channelwise Awards. The annual awards recognise the vendors and distributors who best met the needs of their...

Epson supports entrepreneurs

Epson is supporting future entrepreneurs and start-up companies in South Africa with its newly-launched #EpsonEntrepreneur campaign. The campaign calls for South Africans to self-nominate or nominate budding entrepreneurs and start-up business owners by submitting a...

IoT takes centre stage in 2018

Kathy Gibson at IDC Directions in Sandton – The Internet of Things (IoT) will come of age in 2018. This is the word from George Kalebaila, research director for telecoms and IoT: sub-Saharan Africa at IDC, who says the environment is right for IoT to flourish. “The...

The state of the (IT) nation

Kathy Gibson at IDC Directions in Sandton – The digital economy is at a tipping point, as organisations around the world use technology to fundamentally change their businesses. Globally, we will see moderate growth in IT spending,, but it will be transformative...

Africa: land of challenge and opportunity

Kathy Gibson at IDC Directions in Sandton – Africa is a unique and very different market to do business in, but there as many challenges as opportunities. “We live in a fast moving and dynamic political and social environment, says Mark Walker, associate...

The growth and growth of cloud

Kathy Gibson at IDC Directions in Sandton – Cloud and data centre conversations tend to focus around the core question of how to achieve digital transformation. “The most important message is that there is a still a balance between on-premise data centres and the...