CIOs can jump start a cost-effective digitalisation journey

Doing more with less is a constant challenge to IT organisations, writes Rich Hillebrecht, chief information officer of Riverbed Technology. There is continuous downward pressure on IT budgets, while expectations surrounding what can be achieved through...

Drive business value through an IoT platform

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the ability to transform the lives of citizens, providing tangible solutions to many of society’s ills. That said, partnerships between the public and private sector will be key in ensuring that these are fully realised....

Incredible opportunities offered by the ‘API economy’

API, application program interface, is becoming a buzzword in the IT world, writes Sven Hammar, CEO of Apica System. According to Wikipedia, API is “a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications”. For a more appealing...

IT’s changing of the guard

Thanks to the evolution of technology, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) no longer need to be responsible for IT in the traditional sense, writes Brian Timperley, MD of MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks. With these companies under pressure to deliver more on...

How Windows 10 can mobilise your small business

You may personally not have to deal with bureaucracy or red tape, but that doesn’t mean big decisions come easily for any small business, writes Chris Buchanan, Dell Client Solutions Director for South Africa. Every corporate initiative, pilot project, new...

More network decomposition expected in 2016

While the last 10 year has seen network functions consolidated into a single physical appliance, the move from the physical to the virtual world is now producing the opposite effect that will accelerate further in 2016, according to KEMP Technologies.  This...