May 9, 2017
The information and communications technology (ICT) sector is one of the main driving forces behind organisational competitiveness in the modern business environment. Modern businesses increasingly rely on network-supported technologies, such as cloud computing,...
May 8, 2017
The term “digital transformation” is on every CIO’s lips today, and a large part of this transformation, is the move to a software-defined data centre (SDDC). “The SDDC is the IT infrastructure of tomorrow,” says Lutz Blaeser, MD of Intact Software Distribution. “For...
May 8, 2017
The integrity of state expenditure at all levels of governance has come under increasingly heavy fire from South African citizens over the past few years, as the press has reported on the growing incidence of conflict of interest in public procurement. In August 2016,...
Apr 26, 2017
Worldwide, the cloud services market is expected to soar. Alongside this, businesses are slowly getting used to the idea of hybrid cloud adoption, although Gartner estimates it is around five years from going mainstream. “Still, Gartner predicts the demand for...
Apr 26, 2017
The World Economic Forum earlier this year shone a bright light on the future of the so-called ‘digital economy’. Interestingly, panel discussions very quickly shifted from this theme, into the realm of cyber-security – and just how we’ll stay...
Apr 25, 2017
Security must be automated and integrated to keep up with the fast-changing, ever-growing risk of cybercrime, says Fortinet. Paul Williams, country manager: southern Africa at Fortinet, says global cyber-attacks have become highly sophisticated and increasingly...