Founder and CEO Mark Lu exits Corex
Mark Lu, renowned as one of the pioneers of the South African IT distribution channel, has hung up his "trader's hat" with the announcement that he has officially left Corex, the distributor he founded in 2003. Lu sold Corex in 2018 to Partner Tech Corporation - a...
Africa’s top investment economies
RMB has released the 2024 edition of its Where to Invest in Africa report, a comprehensive analysis of the top investment destinations on the continent. The report, which has been developed in collaboration with the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS),...
African consumers face an uncertain future
Sub-Saharan Africa experienced its first recession in 25 years when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, according to World Bank data. This has resulted in a difficult recovery for the region and has also brought to the fore new economic growth challenges, compounded by the...
Hybrid IT increases network complexity, adds challenges
The acceleration of hybrid IT has increased network complexity for most organisations, and caused several worrisome challenges for IT professionals. This is among the findings from The SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022—Getting IT Right: Managing Hybrid IT Complexity,...
Phishing for cryptocurrency continues to rise
With the boom in digital currencies over the past five years, there has been a surge in the number of cybercriminal tactics used to steal cryptocurrency – from luring victims with gifts sent by crypto exchanges to distributing Trojanised DeFi wallets. Crypto wallets...
A password manager could save businesses from phishing attacks
According to IBM, in 2021, phishing attacks caused 17% of all data breaches, moving up from fourth to the second most common cause of data compromise in only a year. It is also the second costliest type of breach, with the average global cost reaching $4,65-million....
Industrial printer shipments decline
Industrial printer shipments declined 2.1% year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker. "Shipments at the beginning of the year started off...
African Data Centres to build new Cape Town facility
Africa Data Centres is building a second, 20MW-capacity, data centre covering 15 000 square meters in eight data halls in Cape Town. According to Tesh Durvasula, Chief Executive Officer of Africa Data Centres, there is a clear pipeline of demand for colocation space...
Teachers need to control their classes without using corporal punishment
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Children’s Institute, represented by the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) has made submissions as a friend of the court (amicus curiae) in the matter between the Centre for Child Law and Others, and South African Council of...
Tension between personalised experiences and personal privacy persist
Seventy-one percent of B2C customers and 86% of B2B customers expect companies to be well-informed about their personal information during a service interaction, according to a new Gartner survey. The survey of more than 5 800 customers conducted in December 2021...
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MDM unveils Trillium Big Data
Master Data Management, the South African data management specialists and partner of Trillium Software, has announced the release of Trillium Software’s big data quality platform. Trillium Big Data is the first data quality solution that brings the power of the...
DCC offers Tandberg storage solutions
Distributor Drive Control Corporation has announced the availability of Overland Storage’s Tandberg Data RDX disk-based removable storage system. The Tandberg Data RDX provides simplified data security, backup, compatibility and ease-of-use for small-to-medium sized...
Security is everyone’s business
Security is no longer the ambit of the IT department alone. As more South African companies conduct business online, and as more people and things connect to the Internet, security becomes everyone’s business – from the CEO to the newest or most junior employee, says...
New appointment for EMC Southern Africa
EMC Southern Africa has appointed Amanda De Beer as regional manager of its Data Protection Solutions (DPS) business. Formerly executive of Gijima’s Enterprise Applications business unit, De Beer has gained immense experience and insight throughout her career which...
Stolen hours cost the economy
Absenteeism costs South Africa between R12 and R16-billion per year, according to Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA) and Statistics SA. OCSA adds that of the 15% of staff who may be absent on any given day, only one in three are actually physically ill, and that...
Up-to-date learning for your workforce
Businesses have long struggled with how to effectively train their employees, while showing a solid return on investment (ROI). The rising costs associated with instructor-led training have added to the dilemma. According to research performed originally by Edgar Dole...
Customer experience a key concern
The unhappy customer – to most companies, this is the worst possible business outcome. How about the indifferent customer? If the customer is king, then surely logic should follow that the customer’s experience, and by association their feelings toward your business,...
Innovation, investment drive Wyzetalk growth
When Wyzetalk started as a tech project in 2011 born out of frustration at the limiting features of social business software available, nobody envisioned the rapid successes it would achieve. IDC estimates that by 2016 the size of the global social and collaboration...
IT changes focus in IoT world
Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice-president, Global Services, Solutions and Support at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) talks about cloud transformation and data expansion driving the need for businesses to embrace a new strategy. The cloud transformation and exponential...
Solutionsonsite offers Agile training for business
Specialist Cape Town-based Agile training company Solutionsonsite has announced a first-of-its-kind course for business professionals involved in managing Agile software development requirements. Designed with business analysts, product owners and other key team...
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Snr Full Stack Software Developer (HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React / Angular / Vue.js) (DBN)
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Technical Support – Solar / Renewable Energy – Western Cape Cape Town
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Snr Full Stack Software Developer (HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React / Angular / Vue.js) (DBN) – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
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Mainframe Application Developer at Accenture – Gauteng Midrand
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