Pinnacle scoops Channelwise Distributor of the Year 2024 award
Pinnacle has reclaimed the coveted Channelwise Distributor of the Year title, pipping Axiz, Mustek, Tarsus Distribution and Rectron at the post. The prestigious awards are the culmination of the 12th annual Channelwise Distributor of the Year survey. This year, 2 828...
All the top vendors for 2024
The votes are in, and South African resellers have named their favourite vendors for 2024. The 12th annual Channelwise Awards survey attracted a record 2 828 voters, who named their favourite vendors in 10 categories, as follows: Infrastructure hardware Servers...
Scammers target the unemployed
The Department of Employment and Labour has noted with concern of yet another scam titled "youth employment program" that make unrealistic promises to the unemployed. The department does not have a youth employment programme but, with unemployment in South Africa at...
Electronic offender monitoring market booms
The number of offenders participating in Electronic Monitoring (EM) programmes in Europe, North America and Latin America amounted to about 50 000, 371 000 and 96 000 respectively during 2021. Berg Insight estimates that the number of daily users will grow to 77 000...
Access to emerging technologies will drive creativity, community, data privacy
Following several years of constant global instability, people are gaining greater access to emerging technologies -- including AI, web3, and tokenisation -- advancing the next generation of creativity, community and data privacy. In turn, businesses and leaders...
Digital fingerprinting deters identity attacks
Add AI to the list of defenses against identity attacks, one of the most common and hardest breach to prevent. More than 40% of all data compromises involved stolen credentials, according to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. And a whopping 80% of all...
Smartphone shipments suffer largest-ever decline
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18,3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. The drop marks the...
Data sovereignty, compliance issues shape IT decisions
Data sovereignty and compliance are now an important factor in shaping IT selection and design decision, according to survey results from International Data Corporation (IDC). Almost half the respondents (48%) to IDC's Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey (n=1350) say that data...
SOCs in the line of fire
In 2022, the number of incidents in government and mass media segments grew, and the trend will continue this year. Security operation centres (SOCs) from these - and other industries - are likely to face more recurring targeted attacks, as will supply chain attacks...
Cross-border B2B payments to top $40trn by 2024
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global spend on B2B cross-border payments will exceed $40-trillion by the end of 2024; increasing from $37-trillion in 2022. This growth of $3-trillion (9%) will be driven by the rising popularity of e-commerce...
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Networks Unlimited is Riverbed Distributor of the Year
Networks Unlimited has won the Riverbed Technology Distributor of the Year 2015 Award for South Africa. The local awards were presented at the Riverbed Partner Connect Conference 2016, in Johannesburg, on April 20th, recognising regional partners for great...
Outsmart the bad, safeguard the good
Preventing the loss of critical or sensitive data has been an issue for as long as there has been proprietary information and intellectual property, writes Perry Hutton, regional vice-president of Fortinet Africa. But recent developments both in regulatory...
Ovations acquires Marshall Technologies
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Afrihost selects Ruckus Wireless for connectivity
South African Internet Service Provider, Afrihost, has selected Ruckus Wireless as its WiFi technology of choice for the company's internal wireless requirements at the head office in Rivonia. Brendan Armstrong, chief technology officer at Afrihost, comments: "As a...
Telkom sponsors SA Olympics team
Telkom is the official Olympic sponsor of the South African Olympic and Paralympics teams. The multi-million rand sponsorship will allow SASCOC to expand Team SA, including more qualifying athletes, giving our local talent and opportunity to compete on the world's...
Intelligent cities are safe and secure
Advanced technologies must be used intelligently to make cities safer. This is according tosays Walter Lee, responsible for the business strategy and operations of the innovation management office (IMO) in the global safety division of NEC. NEC, through its subsidiary...
Pentagon improves threat response with BlackBerry
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has awarded a contract to renew and expand its use of BlackBerry's AtHoc Networked Crisis Communications Suite. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) is a civilian agency within the Department of Defense charged with...
NetApp simplifies transition to hybrid cloud
NetApp has announced the NetApp ONTAP 9 operating system, a major advance in enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. With ONTAP 9 software, enterprises can quickly...
Making maths and science available in Mpumalanga
Bayer in South Africa has joined forces with Penreach to take Maths and Science closer to a number of schools in Mpumalanga through the sponsorship of a mobile maths and science laboratory. The life sciences company has made funds available to Penreach in an effort to...
Revolutionising the partner opportunity
Businesses are changing and, as a result so is the channel, writes Nathan Nayagar, MD of Lexmark - South Africa & English-speaking Africa. Companies are now looking to digitalisation and are increasingly turning to advanced technology to innovate the way they...
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Test Analyst at Parvana Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
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