Feb 16, 2015
IT outsourcing continues to be a popular option, as it offers a number of well-known benefits, including access to scarce skills, cost reductions, leveraging industry best practices and more. However, despite spending considerable time and effort in implementing an...
Feb 13, 2015
Health care companies and facilities in South Africa carry many risks similar to those faced by their global peers, as well as those faced by local organisations in other sectors. Combined, these risks create a distinctive risk profile for companies in this sector,...
Feb 11, 2015
Some say that the arrival of the Protection of Personal Information Act, or POPI as it is known, will put a damper on the growth of the managed services or cloud computing market. POPI obviously has relevance, but there’s also a fair amount of hype around the effect...
Jan 30, 2015
Many CEOs tend to see business continuity management purely within the context of complying with King III and other governance codes. But, says Leigh-Anne van As, business development manager at ContinuitySA, CEOs also need to see how business continuity management...
Jan 13, 2015
As one of the goals for the New Year, companies should take stock of how resilient they are, and take steps to improve their ability to prevent disasters, and to recover should one occur. “As part of their business continuity management, companies assess the risks...
Dec 12, 2014
Companies still using tape back-ups should prepare themselves for possible data loss. With a failure rate of up to 65% and the fact that these back-ups are generally archived off site in a warehouse requiring manual processes to search for data, tape back-ups are a...
