Tallying the ripple costs of a cyber attack

The cost of any type of theft is often a lot higher than just the value of the stolen goods, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, country manager of Check Point South Africa. If your house was broken into, you would feel violated. While your insurance company would reimburse...

Start preparing for POPI now

The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) may not have been made effective yet, but businesses need to make compliance one of their top priorities for 2017. This according to Wayne Clarke, managing director of Metrofile Records Management, who states that the...

Infinidat array gets no-footprint iSCSI

Big iron array vendor Infinidat has made its third major software release, adding compression, baked-in iSCSI support and enhanced array analytics. The company’s architecture has three controller nodes, which each can see all the drives, and eschews an all-flash...

T-Systems offers simplified application landscapes

T-Systems has released its Application Modernisation and Management to Go (AMM2Go) service to South African businesses. As local companies look to transform digitally, to compete in the modern digital era, AMM2Go allows clients to focus on their strategic business...

Is flash poised to kill disk for primary storage?

Flash is now the only realistic choice for primary storage with the performance and bottom line benefits it brings. The historic concerns over cost and stability are now a thing of the past, meaning all-flash arrays are well on their way to becoming the dominant force...

Keep track of your kids with Tracker

The new school year has begun and for most parents with active kids, this means waiting in the parking lot – sometimes for hours – for your child to return from his soccer match. But thanks to Tracker, the waiting will soon be a thing of the past. Tracker...