Finding the imposters among us

The cybersecurity industry’s approach to protecting our data simply isn’t working anymore. It was built for the past. It was about outside threats, hackers finding their way inside, building bigger and more audacious security walls to befuddle the bad guys...

Security at the heart of successful transformation

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Every organisation has security at top of mind, and CIOs are grappling with the challenge of implementing digital transformation while keeping it secure. Hein Kern, who looks after the RSA business in South...

Services, attach add value to the tech

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Technology is all very well, but means very little without pre-sales, deployment and after-sales services. Dell EMC partners are able to offer these services to their customers, either through their own...
Transformation begins with the workforce

Transformation begins with the workforce

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Technology is an important enabler of workforce transformation, but the change actually begins with the user. Today, one technology cannot support the whole workforce, says Chris Buchanan, client...
The data centre of the future

The data centre of the future

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Adopting a modern data centre is less about technology, and more about a new way of thinking. This is the message from Ossama El Samadoni, regional director: modern data centre at Dell EMC, who points out...

PoPI: Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg

As they currently stand, the draft regulations relating to the Protection of Personal information Act (PoPI) could significantly harm a key driver of inclusive economic growth – direct marketing. By David Dickens, CEO of the Direct Marketing Association of South...