Secure data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Security has always been one of the biggest concerns when moving data into the cloud, with public cloud often perceived as the least secure option. Nevertheless, the benefits of a hybrid environment have been made clear, and organisations have started to adopt public...

Hospitality Industry 4.0 still needs the human touch

While the Fourth Industrial Revolution presents immense opportunity for particularly the hospitality industry, the people-centred nature of these businesses will likely see human capital remaining an equally integral component to organisational success. “The...

Intentionally insecure: poor security practices in the cloud

So far this year, there have been five documented cases of organisations exposing their private data due to misconfigured S3 buckets or cloud databases. By Lori MacVittie, principal threat evangelist at F5 Networks Wait, let’s fix that: due to intentionally...

Farmers will benefit from agritech disruption

Technology is changing the face of agriculture by enabling farmers to increase production, reduce costs and streamline activity across the entire agricultural value chain to help ensure that long-term food security is maintained. Termed ‘disruptive...

Infrastructure considerations if you want happier customers

When it comes to choosing an infrastructure to support a big SAP HANA workload, you have choices. By Jim Holland, country manager for Data Centre Group at Lenovo Southern Africa The right solution can act like an invisible workhorse, allowing your IT team to focus on...

Backup as a service can save you when the cloud goes down

As companies and individuals come to rely on the public cloud for an increasing range of services, from infrastructure to applications, they often assume that no additional backups are necessary. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues Michael Davies, CEO of...