BMS the foundation for an Industry 4.0 strategy

We are entering the age of Industry 4.0, thanks to the rise of the industrial Internet of Things and the maturity of today’s social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technology. This age of digital change offers African manufacturers opportunities to grow...

Critical infrastructure protection gets a boost

Kaspersky Lab has announced the global availability of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Energy, a vertical advanced package for energy enterprises, based on Kaspersky Lab’s suite for protection of industrial infrastructure. Modern electrical power grids...

Three reasons businesses are still afraid of the cloud

Every business can derive significant benefit from the cloud. Why, then, do so many businesses fail to do so – even with the help of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)? Aptronics’ business development manager Ian Russell sat down with David Funnell, cloud...

Firewall as a service aids cloud security

It’s time to take advantage of the full capability of the cloud to ensure uptime, scalability and reduced risk, says Ralph Berndt, director of sales at Syrex. In July 2016, Gartner introduced Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) as a new technology segment, entering it...

VAST Networks picks Cape to monitor WiFi performance

VAST Networks, South Africa’s first open access and leading WiFi provider has partnered with Cape, the WiFi monitoring company to deliver superior WiFi performance to locations across South Africa. Cape’s Sensors and Dashboard will assist VAST Networks in...

The rise of the information activist

Explosion of data, computing power and the rise of the information activists, are the top three distinctive and challenging trends in the business intelligence (BI) space in 2017, says Adam Barrie-Smith Cape Town branch manager and expert services llead at South...