Edge computing and the future with 5G

Last year as the world leaned upon digital platforms for connection, the power and absolute necessity of technology became 100% clear – let’s call it 2020 vision. Tony Bartlett, data centre compute at Dell Technologies, South Africa This year, the...

Things we’ve learnt in the last 12 months

Every organisation arguably entered a survival mode when the first lockdown was announced in late March 2020. By Cameron Beveridge, regional director for southern Africa at SAP With offices closed, workers and families confined to their homes, and most economic...

The changing role of the network security architect

The role of the network security architect is constantly changing due to evolution in IT landscape, its digital transformation and the position has become particularly important over the past 15 years. This is a period during technology and the way it is consumed has...

Huawei enables industries with scenario-based solutions

Driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, digital transformation is speeding up across industries, and full cloud adoption will happen one to three years earlier than expected. This is the word from Ken Hu, Huawei’s rotating chairman, speaking at the company’s...

AI and edge computing: a match made in IT heaven

Artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing are certainly both industry buzzwords in their own right. Implementation of AI by businesses has grown 270% in the past four years, while enterprises will spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets on edge cloud...

New network technology drives digital transformation

Enterprises around the globe are waking up to the importance of digital transformation when it comes to achieving their business objectives. But as more and more applications and office functions move to the cloud and operations evolve, so network capability will...