Say goodbye to third-world communication

SD-WAN is all about the seamless and the smart, writes Brendan Mc Aravey, country manager at Citrix South Africa. South African businesses increasingly depend on connectivity. This is because tech-savvy customers require businesses and service providers that meet...

IT predictions for 2017, according to Riverbed

Allan Paton, regional vice -president for UK, Ireland and sub-Saharan Africa at Riverbed, offers the company’s trends and predictions for the year ahead. Enterprises move toward a strategic architecture for digital transformation: IDC predicts that, by 2017, 60%...

Execution key to digital success

Many companies have enjoyed significant efficiencies from partial digitisation in recent years, but there’s still a lot of paper flying about many everyday offices, writes Monique Williams, Hyland Southern Africa regional manager. Most agree that achieving truly...

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...

Welcome to the age of ubiquitous IoT

People have been talking about it for years – the brave new world of the Internet of Things (IoT), which adds sensors and Internet capability to everyday physical objects. Predicted to be as transformational as the spread of the mobile Internet, IoT is rapidly...