Smart agriculture to feed 10bn mouths

As the global population continues to rise steadily, the agricultural sector, already reeling from the effects of climate change, has been confronted with a challenge of epic proportions. How to feed a projected 10-billion people on the planet in 2050? Whether it is...

Is your disaster recovery plan really a security hazard?

Every business should have a disaster recovery plan to ensure challenges are prevented or handled before they escalate, writes Stuart Bernard, vice-president: digital solutions at Iron Mountain EMEA. When people talk about “disaster recovery”, we often...

Loyalty will be top of mind in 2022

The successful businesses of the future recognise that adaptability should not end with the innovations rolled out during the pandemic. By Robin Fisher, senior area vice-president of Salesforce Emerging Markets Across all industries we’re seeing the need for...

Moving to the cloud: is it right for your business?

If the pandemic taught us one thing, it’s that remote work is a viable alternative to large, expensive offices and IT infrastructure and hardware. “Many South African businesses have slashed their office space after realising that they could save money...

Continuous improvements bring local cloud providers to the fore

With the demand for cloud-based services growing as South African companies look to enable seamless remote or hybrid working and mitigate against power outages, local providers have been continually improving their offerings in order to provide customers with...

Turn resignations into a reset to upgrade skills

A new trend of mass resignations across the working world is being seen by companies and economists as a wave of impending destruction. By Johann van Niekerk, MD of Outsized for Africa This trend emerging in the aftermath of Covid is sometimes incorrectly attributed...