A decade of staying ahead of the security

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, SID’s David Liu looks back over the last decade and gives insight into the changes in the online security sector. What were you doing 10 years ago? Well, if you are South African, chances are you were listening to...

Don’t let Easter slow your business down

Too many businesses make the mistake of thinking a business year is a full twelve months. It isn’t. Late March and early April is more often than not a slow time of year for many organisations. People go on holiday, children are on school break, and the end-of-summer...

ALE launches hybrid communication blueprint

ALE, operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand, is introducing its hybrid communications blueprint to help businesses adopt Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). Rainbow Connected Platform, the ALE “relationship machine”, is an overlay...

Design thinking versus lean startup …

Traditionally, a business would build a product and hope to find customers who want to buy it. Aggressive marketing tactics would hook consumers who, faced with few other choices, would respond accordingly. The company would corner the market and move on to building...

Companies need the unabbreviated truth about IT security

Information systems change all the time. Couple this with the fact that new threats arise constantly and it’s easy to see why security systems implemented or updated last month can’t keep pace with security requirements right now. The truth is that...

Imagine if office equipment worked like a smartphone?

Most office employees face daily, repetitive tasks that slow the flow of work. Engineers at Xerox looked at those productivity barriers and designed ways individuals can use multifunction printers (MFPs) and apps to automate personal work processes. Take a daily...