Telecommunications trends for 2020

Open minds and fair trade will play a leading role in revolutionising the African telecoms market into the next decade. That’s the prediction from Christoph Fitih, director sales: Africa at Parallel Wireless, who offers the following outlook on the market. As...

HP, Aptronics deliver tech to improve healthcare

The healthcare environment can benefit greatly from the thoughtful application of technology to help improve operations and outcomes. HP offers a range of solutions designed to help healthcare professionals in their work and also to safeguard the safety of staff and...

Is your personal data safe?

Data Protection Day is a good time to find out if your data is safe, writes Barry Cook, privacy and group data protection officer at VFS Global. We share a lot more information in the digital world than we used to. Businesses, organisations, close family, friends and...

More cybersecurity predictions for 2020

With data breaches hitting headlines daily, security professionals are constantly concerned about the next big threat. Whether it’s ransomware, phishing or endpoint attacks, there’s always something on the horizon waiting for its turn in the spotlight....

A peek into the next decade of storage

Over the next decade, we are going to see another wave of huge volumes of data created, driven by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning and data lakes. By Eran Brown, chief technology: EMEA for...

Pressure growing to protect customers’ personal information

Cybersecurity and legal experts are warning that an increase in cyberattacks and the pending implementation of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) expose South African companies to increased regulatory, reputational and financial risk. Brian Pinnock,...