Business rescue is not a magic salve

With some large local operations going into business rescue recently, the concept itself is probably still novel to many in South Africa, writes Gareth Cremen, a partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. Reports in the business press suggest that shortly after Leon Kirkinis...

Kaseya acquires Scorpion Software

Kaseya, the leading provider of cloud-based IT management software, today announced the acquisition of Scorpion Software, a leading security and authentication provider offering integrated two factor authentication, single sign on and password management solutions....

Mobile cloud and the software-defined future

The mobile-cloud era has business and IT under tremendous pressure. It faces a number of challenges as it juggles maintenance and renovation of existing systems, whilst looking to the future and implementing new technology to support growing business needs, says Ian...

Protecting portable devices from knocks

The mobile workforce has firmly entrenched itself globally and locally, the variety of devices has grown, it has also become increasingly common for the same user to have multiple devices, says Heinrich Pretorius, Targus product specialist at DCC. Most commonly, these...

CA tackles the mobility transformation

The era of BYOD, where employees are using their own devices and not necessarily one device; has brought about a revolution in the workplace but not without major challenges to the secure management of IT. CA Southern Africa has announced the local availability of a...

Harnessing apps to improve service delivery

With the increasing affordability and pervasiveness of smartphones and tablets, apps have rapidly become a part of everyday life. From games and messaging to banking, handy tools and more, apps have revolutionised the way people interact on a social level. As mobility...