Cyber attacks the top cause of business outages
Veeam Software has released insights from the company’s fifth annual Veeam Data Protection Trends Report. While companies say they will spend more trying to fend off cyber-attacks, the survey found IT leaders are feeling even less protected and more concerned about...
New CEO for Mimecast
Mimecast has announced the appointment of Marc Van Zadelhoff as CEO, as co-founder Peter Bauer steps down from the role. Bauer remains as a member of the board and will continue to be an active advisor. "I've loved leading Mimecast from our founding in 2003 to our...
Sipho Maseko to leave Telkom
Sipho Maseko will step down as group CEO and executive director of Telkom and its subsidiaries on 30 June 2022. A designate group CEO will be announced soon and Maseko will ensure an orderly transition for the remainder of his tenure. Maseko joined Telkom on 1 April...
Vodacom’s quarterly revenue up 9%
Vodacom has reported group revenue of R24,8-billion for the quarter ended 30 June 2021, up 9% from the corresponding period last year. Normalised group service revenue growth was 7,8%, with international growth accelerating. South Africa service revenue was up 5,2% to...
Fraudulent Covid sites abound
During the pandemic, Kaspersky alone recorded more than 5 000 fraudulent sites globally related to the coronavirus. During this period, the company also prevented more than one million users' attempts to visit these sites. Among the most common schemes used by...
SASE solutions the future for security
Cyberattacks and threats have increased as hackers have taken advantage of the shift to remote and hybrid work. A new survey from Check Point Software Technologies confirms that there is a growing shift towards cloud-based security and secure access service edge...
Protecting your biometrics is your birthright
Fraudsters do not discriminate and, as we continuously move towards the adoption of a digital and more importantly "touchless" era, the platform for fraud increases. Now, thanks to an increase in data breaches, fraudsters are motivated and armed with the correct...
HP believed to be dropping PageWide line-up
Almost 10 years after launching the PageWide printers into the market, it is believed that HP is discontinuing the product category. PageWide technology has a fixed print head that prints the entire width of the page. Sources reveal that HP is set to drop the A4 and...
Campaign aims to bring corporates, SMEs together after unrest
One Linkage is putting its weight behind efforts to help small South African businesses recover from the spate of unrest that affected parts of the country in recent days. A week of looting and rioting has seen the destruction of thousands of businesses in the Gauteng...
Transnet container terminal systems interrupted
Speculation about a cyberattack at Transnet is rife as the state-owned logistics company is experiencing interruptions to its container terminal operations. Very little information is available, with the Transnet web site currently down, but some customers have been...
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Kaseya acquires Office 365 solution
Kaseya, a leading provider of IT systems management software, has announced the acquisition of 365 Command, a solution enabling IT organisations and MSPs to easily manage and administer the Microsoft Office 365 cloud application suite. With this acquisition, Kaseya...
Alcatel OneTouch smartphone sales boom
TCL Communication Technology has announced the unaudited figures about shipments of its handsets and other products in September 2013 and for the first nine months of the year. The group’s total sales volume of handsets and other products increased by 38% year-on-year...
Samsung launches SMB printing solutions
Samsung Electronics South Africa has announced the launch of its Business Core Printing Solutions for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), to increase workplace efficiency through easy-to-use, serverless printing. Business Core Printing Solutions enable SMBs to...
The role of load balancers in business
The African ICT market is thriving and has reached a level of maturity that makes it easier for any-sized business to trade and compete. Multiple server infrastructures is evidence of this growth and today small-to-medium sized organisations run the same amount of...
PwC achieves better backups with Veeam
Like many companies, PricewaterhouseCoopers South Africa (PwC) hoped its legacy backup solution for physical servers would perform just as well in a virtualised environment. But as the company approached complete virtualisation, says Senior Manager for Hosted Services...
Kaspersky products win in Dennis testing
Kaspersky Labs is proud to announce that its products, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Kaspersky Small Office Security, have both earned first place in quarterly independent testing performed by Dennis Technology Labs in categories for corporate security...
BYOD sounds good, but is it practical?
Since the beginning of the year I have been running a bring your own device (BYOD) experiment, writes Peter Scheffel, chief technology officer at bbd. No I’m not talking about my own phone or my own iPad. These devices, while they are capable of doing some work in the...
IBM, Datawatch turn ECM into data insights
Datawatch and IBM have announced the industry's first integrated content management and analytics solution that lets IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) users gain insight from big data trapped within their CMOD systems. The first of its kind, this-self-service...
Automation the key challenge this decade
“Shifting to business process automation is the biggest technological change CEOs will face this decade,” says Alexander Mehlhorn, CEO of software development company Framework One. “The rise of smart machines will force an evolution in the way we work and give rise...
Digital forensics uncovers the truth
What if an employee visits the Human Resources Department with allegations that a colleague sent them offensive e-mails? What if the suspected employee deleted certain files from their computer? What would you do? Digital Forensics can retrieve deleted files and allow...
AWS Data Engineer
Are you a skilled IT professional with a passion for innovation and cutting-edge technology? Our client is seeking a talented AWS Data Engineer to join their dynamic team at the Midrand/Menlyn location. As a global leader in the automotive industry, they are committed...
Senior Reference and Master Data Management Specialists
Objective of this Scope of WorkThe Senior Reference and Master Data Management Specialists will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of the enterprise frameworks, standards, processes and procedures applicable to the management of master and reference data...
Lead Angular Developer
My client is seeking a Lead Angular Developer with at least 5 years' worth of experience in Front end development and familiarity with Architecture, Cloud Architecture and Container Architecture to lead the development and implementation of Angular-based applications....
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About our client:Our client is a global provider of digital marketing and client reporting tools that help asset managers attract and retain investor assets. While rapidly expanding, their current office spread is across 4 continents, with approx 200 employees across...
AWS Data Engineer – Gauteng Midrand
Are you a skilled IT professional with a passion for innovation and cutting-edge technology? Our client is seeking a talented AWS Data Engineer to join their dynamic team at the Midrand/Menlyn location. As a global leader in the automotive industry, they are committed...
Senior Reference and Master Data Management Specialists – Gauteng Pretoria CBD
Objective of this Scope of WorkThe Senior Reference and Master Data Management Specialists will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of the enterprise frameworks, standards, processes and procedures applicable to the management of master and reference data...
Lead Angular Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
My client is seeking a Lead Angular Developer with at least 5 years' worth of experience in Front end development and familiarity with Architecture, Cloud Architecture and Container Architecture to lead the development and implementation of Angular-based applications....
Operational Technology Architect
Role Context and Purpose:The role is accountable for developing Architecture within Digital Technology (DT) across the Operational Technology (OT) domain. This role's purpose is to select new technologies and the effective design of platforms to achieve the required...
Solutions Architect
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Junior Oracle DBA
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