Your data is being held hostage by cyber criminals. What now?

It’s any company’s worst nightmare – an employee in the organisation unknowingly downloads an email attachment containing malware, and within minutes your system has been hijacked and all your data encrypted. To make matters worse, the perpetrators...

VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Africa

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With VMware Cloud on AWS, customers across Africa can run workloads across VMware vSphere-based hybrid cloud environments with optimised access to Amazon Web Services. VMware Cloud on AWS...

What will it take to make the metaverse real?

Everyone’s talking about the metaverse–and with good reason. It’ll open a whole new universe of visual, tactile, and collaborative experiences. Here’s what I’m thinking as well as what I’m hearing from conversations with customers,...

Global insolvencies should prompt SA companies to re-evaluate IT risk

The increase in insolvencies worldwide should prompt directors of South African companies to re-look how they will secure their own business continuity should any of their key suppliers fold and stop providing them with mission-critical systems. And, while doing so,...

Cybersecurity is a process not a destination

If we are to understand the most important theme of the recent cybersecurity month, which as always, is accompanied by a host of articles around trends and best practice, it’s pertinent to start with an analogy about our personal homes. By Antony Russell, chief...

Now is the time to re-engage employees

Looking back on 2022, it’s clear that while the world slowly found its feet after Covid-19, people are still grappling with the repercussions of trauma, stress and burnout, on both a personal and professional level. By Sarah Rice, chief people officer at Skynamo...