Get the best out of fibre at home

South Africa’s high-speed fibre optic Internet backbone has improved to the point where some half a million homes have ready access to fibre. With remote working powered by FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) likely to become a more permanent feature of a corporate SA...

Siemens, Salesforce partner on workspace solutions

Salesforce and Siemens have announced a strategic partnership to develop a new workplace technology suite that will support businesses globally to safely reopen and deliver the future experience for physical workplaces. The partnership will combine Salesforce’s...

Schneider Electric, Cisco partner to bridge OT and IT

Schneider Electric and Cisco have formed a technology partnership designed to help drive major advances in making smart buildings the standard. Working together, the two companies have developed, tested and validated designs that help connect building management...

Jasco Enterprise partners with Five9

Jasco Enterprise, which offers hosted and on-site contact centre customer experience solutions, has struck a global partnership with the cloud-native contact centre solutions provider Five9. “Before Covid-19, we had already started observing a significant shift...

Top remote worker cyber risks and solutions

Home-based workers are at increased risk of cyber attack, but there are several measures they can take to reduce risk. This is according to Bryan Baxter, a corporate IT business development manager and IITPSA KZN chapter committee member, who was addressing an IITPSA...