IT distribution revenues remain stable
Distributor revenues inched up from the previous quarter to $20,2-billion in the third quarter of 2024 (3Q24), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) North America Distribution Tracker. Year-over-year growth was down a fraction of a percent with...
Robotics industry set to bounce back
The global demand for robotics has been shifting back and forth over the past few years with the pandemic-driven sales boom followed by stagnation in 2024. However, after a year of stagnant sales, the entire industry is set to witness a significant recovery – with...
Pinnacle wins by a nose … scoops Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award
Pinnacle has once again walked away with the Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award, just pipping Axiz to the post with a scant one-tenth of a percent lead. They were followed by Tarsus Distribution, Mustek and Rectron in one of the most intensely-fought...
First Distribution takes home closely-fought Customer Care award
First Distribution has been chosen as the distributor that showed resellers the most care in 2022, walking away with the Channelwise Customer Care Distributor of the Year Award. The calibre and adaptability of South Africa’s IT distributors was amply demonstrated in...
These are the channel’s favourite vendors
South Africa’s resellers have once again made their voices heard, voting for their favourite vendors in the 2022 Channelwise Awards. “Over the years, the Channelwise Awards have tracked the progress of the South African IT industry, reflecting each year how technology...
Your data could be for sale on a bot market
At least 5-million people have had their online identities stolen and sold on bot markets for R102.00 on average - and 48 000 of those affected are South African. This data comes from research by the cybersecurity company NordVPN, which looked into three major bot...
Heightened hacktivism, geopolitical cyberattacks expected in 2023
Forecasts from the Trellix Advanced Research Centre anticipate spikes in geopolitically motivated attacks across Asia and Europe, hacktivism fuelled by tensions from opposing political parties, and vulnerabilities in core software supply chains. "Analyzing current...
Cybercriminals are after your bank account this festive season
According to a 2021 Interpol report, South Africa had 230-million cyber threat detections between January 2020 and February 2021. Additionally, the country recorded a 100% increase in mobile banking application fraud and is estimated to have suffered 577 malware...
This is the year in search in SA
Google today released its Year in Search results, which capture all of the information and questions South Africans sought out in 2022. Google's Year in Search is an annual analysis that reveals the top trending lists and spotlights what the world searches to see,...
CIOs move towards becoming business value drivers
The CIO role is evolving beyond that of being a technical problem solver, to becoming a strategic business value driver. However, CIOs themselves need to take the lead in entrenching themselves as agents of change for business. This emerged during a round table...
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African development think tank launched
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and its development partners have launched the Africa Project Developers Initiative (APDI). APDI is a think tank and network to promote and enable project development in Africa. It creates a platform that fosters continuous dialogue...
Understanding the legalities of overtime in SA
Overtime is one of the most contentious issues in labour law, with many employers expecting their employees to be at their beck and call all hours of the day, writes Madelein Taljaard, development manager at Sage HR & Payroll. Many workers, meanwhile, resent being...
Big data integration drives better ROI
As 2016 rolls on, a number of factors and trends that will gain traction in the security sector, shaping the progression of the security sector, writes Neil Cameron, GM of Johnson Controls Building Efficiency. These include increased demand for integration, big data...
Fujitsu research identifies code changes
Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of technology to quickly identify changed locations in source code, such as added functions, to enable timely development using large scale open source software. Open source software (OSS) can be easily used by anyone...
What SDDC means for your business
Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks, talks about software-defined everything. Shifting a lot of the management, and therefore the intelligence, to the software makes a lot of sense and it's where the industry is heading. Software-defined networking is...
Smart tech for a better lifestyle
Home and office technologies are now smarter than ever before. Not only are they simplifying our daily lives, they are also transforming the way we work and live. Everything from entertainment and appliances to security, heating and lighting systems are now all...
How to protect your customer documents
The steady digitisation of customer service and engagement processes in banking, insurance, telecomms and utilities has brought about significant improvements in efficiency and customer experience, writes Alison Treadaway, director of Striata. Being able to customise...
Fortinet Security Fabric for pervasive security
Fortinet has unveiled its Security Fabric, an integrated, collaborative, and adaptive architecture designed to deliver distributed security for global enterprises providing protections against threats from IoT and remote devices, through the infrastructure core, and...
Cloud computing accelerates in SA
Cloud computing initiatives are seeing rapid acceleration in the local market, says Clinton Jacobs, analyst at BMI-TechKnowledge. The BMI-T SA Data Centre and Cloud Services study estimates that cloud services will grow from R2.6 billion in 2015 to R6.4 billion by...
ElevenPaths adds Check Point solutions
Check Point Software Technologies has announced that ElevenPaths, a Telefónica company specialising in development of innovative security solutions, will be a provider of Check Point mobile security technologies for Telefónica corporate customers worldwide. The...
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