Defending the digital operations of critical infrastructure
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa Morocco 2024 - Any organisation that runs digital systems understands that it will come under cyberattack. For critical infrastructure, this can have broad implications beyond the company's walls. Ishaaq Jacobs, CISO at Sasol,...
Private sector urged to be ambitious and aggressive in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa 2024 Morocco – As the digital agenda takes off, countries across Africa are racing to provide the basic infrastructure needed to make it a reality. But years of state-owned telco monopolies and a shortage of funding mean...
Component shortages stifle African smartphone growth
Africa's smartphone market saw shipments decline 2,3% quarter on quarter (QoQ) during Q3 2021, according to the latest figures announced by International Data Corporation (IDC). While the region displayed signs of recovery in H1 2021, IDC's newly released Quarterly...
How the network has had to adapt in 2021
Responding to disruptions (45%) and accommodating new business needs (40%) were the top network challenges during 2021. This is among the findings from Cisco's based on a survey of 1 534 IT professionals across 13 countries, which focused on Network as a Service...
Equip managers to succeed in a hybrid world
Organisations must focus on equipping people managers, who are the stewards of sustainable performance, with the right skillsets to ensure they and their teams succeed in the hybrid world, according to Gartner. To achieve this, Gartner recommends organizations pursue...
Prepare infrastructure and operations now
Gartner has highlighted the six trends that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must start preparing for in the next 12 to 18 months. "I&O leaders need to drive change, not simply absorb it," says Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice-president at Gartner....
NTT data centre on track for April 2022 opening
Growthpoint Properties is on track to complete the turnkey data centre development of NTT Johannesburg 1 Data Centre at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, in early 2022. NTT is represented in Africa and the Middle East by Dimension Data, the South African...
Solana tipped to outperform other cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency Solana is likely to again outperform both bitcoin and Ethereum, the world's two biggest digital currencies, in 2022. The bullish prediction from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes amid another sharp bearish dip for leading...
Thousands of organisations at risk from Kafdrop
Researchers at cybersecurity company Spectral have discovered a security flaw in Kafdrop, a popular open-source UI and management interface for Apache Kafka clusters that has been downloaded more than 20-million times. They believe companies that could be affected...
Smartphone shipments to grow despite supply chain constraints
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shipments of smartphones will grow 5,3% year over year in 2021, reaching 1,35-billion shipments. However, due to the lower than expected third quarter and the continued...
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POPI is not all doom and gloom
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act was signed into law last year. It places strict onuses on businesses when it comes to handling personal information about their clients, staff and customers, says Doros Hadjizenonos, sales manager for Check Point South...
DSA to host wireless spectrum debate
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) will hold the world’s largest conference on wireless spectrum sharing in Accra, Ghana from 13 to 14 May 2014. This comes at a time when new laws and regulations are needed in order to release spectrum for vital radio, TV, broadband...
Manage fraud with employee verification
According to PWC’s biennial Global Economic Crime Survey (2011), economic crime continues to rise, growing by 13% since the 2009 survey. Fifty-six percent of respondents said that employees were responsible for the most serious fraud, and asset misappropriation...
Three layers of security key for business
Businesses today need to focus equally on physical, personnel and cyber security in order to mitigate risk in the face of growing criminal focus on enterprise data, says UK-based security expert Chris Phillips.All businesses should take a holistic approach to...
2014 will not be the year of VDI
The time has come to say goodbye to a much loved annual event: declaring the coming year as the “year of VDI”, says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix, South Africa. There is no doubt that VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) deployments will continue to grow,...
How to choose bandwidth
Bandwidth packages come in many different forms, price ranges and sizes and choosing the one that is right for you can be a challenge, says Shane Chorley, executive head of Network and Operations. “The first question to ask before signing up for any bandwidth package...
Analytics brings you closer to customers
Within any industry, understanding the needs of your customer is of the utmost importance, and in no industry is this more relevant than the retail sector, says David McWilliam, director at Cortell Corporate Performance Management. Catering to the needs and...
NSE enhances Trade Alert notifications
Investors in the Nigerian Capital Market are in for good times as The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has commenced the reduction of the cost of its Trade Alert service by about Naira 1,24-billion from March 2014 via the scrapping of the current charge of 0,06% of every...
BT launches new voice solution
BT has announced it is launching BT One Voice Radianz, a new service that unifies voice, mobile and data services and delivers them to members of the BT Radianz Cloud, the world’s largest secure networked community for the financial services industry. While BT has...
Westcon-Comztek offers Linksys products
With Linksys’ announcement that the company is once again entering the business market, Westcon-Comztek partners will have immediate access to its recently unveiled WiFi Access Points, switches, VPN routers and IP surveillance products. Partners and resellers will,...
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