Scrums create continuous learning culture

As a technology company, we’re passionate about using the agile development framework of Scrums to quickly deliver value and innovate ahead of the competition, writes Mpumi Nhlapo, head of marketing and portfolio sales at T-Systems South Africa. We’re...

PoPI will enable better information management

Mike Rees, territory account manager for South Africa at Commvault, talks about the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act, how it is a fast-encroaching reality and how organisations are now facing the mammoth task of ensuring they comply with it. PoPI...

Kaspersky is a trail blazer in APT defence

A competitive analysis of the market for advanced persistent threats (APT) by the Radicati Group has awarded Kaspersky Lab’s Anti Targeted Attack platform “Trail Blazer” quadrant status, one of its top market leadership positions. The result means...

Citrix and the future of SD-WAN

Brendan McAravey, country manager at Citrix South Africa, examines what the Cisco acquisition of Viptela means for the direction of SD-WAN. For those that haven’t been following the rapidly growing SD-WAN market, Cisco’s acquisition of Viptela may seem to...

Preparing for Jobs that don’t exist yet

With the development of IT technologies, the job market is being transformed, across all industry sectors. Automation of manual tasks is the most obvious change, but big data, blockchains and crowd funding may be the real game changers, enabling established and new...

SA’s unemployment an opportunity for stability

The quarterly employment survey recently released by Statistics South Africa announced a net quarterly decrease of 48 000 (-0,5%) jobs between December 2016 and March 2017 – this while South Africa’s unemployment rate already sits at an all-time high of...