Cutting through the connectivity and value added services noise

How can the business cut through the noise to find the best providers of connectivity, network and cloud services without wasting time, money and patience, asks Ralph Berndt, director: sales at Syrex. According to a 2015 survey by IDG and Datalink survey, technology...

What a connected society needs

In today’s more digital world, businesses have started to focus less on the amount of data consumed and more on just having fast and reliable connectivity, writes Brian Timperley, MD of MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks. The increasing commoditisation of data...

IT managed services reduce risk, up performance

Gone are the days when a business simply needed to have a better product or service than that of its competitor, to succeed, and technology was merely a supporting tool to achieve this. Today, companies are driven to provide a unique customer experience – the...

Adapting to the new digital workplace

The explosion of smartphones, tablets and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is transforming the way we communicate, consume services, and manage our personal lives. “The combination of mobile devices and cloud-based apps is also changing the very nature of our...

Innovate in isolation at your own peril

Industry disruptors are forcing traditional organisations to move out of their comfort zones and unless they have a solid innovation strategy and roadmap in place to compete, they run the risk of becoming obsolete. This is the view of Vish Rajpal, group executive of...

Why businesses need a data management strategy

Both the world and the IT industry are changing at a breathtaking speed, with the Internet of Things (IoT) set to further usher in a host of changes, writes Gary de Menezes, country manager of NetApp South Africa. Some of these transformations we can already foresee,...