Flexibility and lower TCO the ideal of any CIO
Chief information officers (CIOs) who are looking to lower total cost of ownership (TCO), require more flexible licensing models to support the software and solutions they procure. Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) models consolidate hardware and software CAPEX,...
What smart technology really means for business
Smart technology (IoT), is simply about connecting devices, but while the focus has been on technology that facilitates the creation of smart households, its business applications are endless, writes Keith Fenner, vice-president of Sage X3 International. According to...
Preparing for your next IT budget
IT spend has increased significantly over the last decade and business leaders everywhere fear they may be spending too much on 'unnecessary technology', but often not enough on what is really important to the business. This is according to Mark Geschke, CEO of...
Why business change is imperative
Waldemar Adams, senior vice-president: analytics at SAP EMEA examines why a business that does not keep up with change is doomed to fail. "Without doubt, today's ever-quickening cycle of change is unprecedented. Change today is faster, more erratic, more elemental...
How to unlearn the traditional workplace
The notion of what defines a workplace is evolving with the new millennium, writes Brendan McAravey, country manager of Citrix South Africa. For example, on any given day, a company can have less than 50% office utilisation, as employees may be offsite attending a...
Vodacom Business helps companies ride the digital wave
South African businesses can adopt a fully digital mind-set to their enterprise mobility with Vodacom Business’s inclusive ICT offering for managed enterprise digital transformation. Growing competitiveness for the customer and pressure on businesses’ running costs...
Mastermind Groups help SMEs with digital transformation
Local digital transformation company Xuviate has started a series of Mastermind Groups to provide a platform for IT leaders to brainstorm, to educate and to offer support for digital transformation.Mathias Tölken, chief operating officer of Xuviate, says running...
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise adds security layer
With nearly 1-million malware threats released worldwide every day, it's vital that organisations deploy a proactive, defense-in-depth network security strategy that addresses multiple layers of the network. In an effort to provide enterprise businesses with greater...
BT Security Consulting helps in testing times
BT has announced the launch of Cyber Roadmap Consulting, a new consultancy programme designed to give large organisations a better understanding of their own cyber security risks and implement measures to mitigate these. The new service leverages highly skilled...
Integr8, Extreme, Duxbury launch networking-on-demand
In a ground-breaking move, three leading local IT companies have banded together to launch South Africa's first pay-per-use, fully-managed, corporate networking solution which will be targeted at developing markets throughout Africa. Dubbed EasyLAN, the solution has...
Riverbed debuts SD-WAN solution
In a major move to revolutionise networking, Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, today launched Riverbed SteelConnect, an SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution that offers a radically new approach to networking in a cloud-centric...
Reasons to outsource database administration
With the South African economy in crisis, IT managers are under greater pressure than ever to tighten budgets and increase efficiencies. One of the ways to significantly reduce IT costs is to outsource your database and operating system administration to a service...