T-Systems debuts ‘un-outsourcer solutions’ offering
Traditional ICT outsourcing is losing relevance in the digital era. Characterised by inflexible structures, high risk to clients and low cost transparency, the current structure of ICT contracting is stifling clients' ability to digitally transform. In response to...
Dangers of insourcing your business continuity
As more and more African organisations wake up to the need for business continuity, ContinuitySA's GM: Africa, Willem Olivier, says that while insourcing might seem like the easy option, there are some significant pitfalls--as well as higher costs over the long term....
Engineering firms opt for refurbished IT equipment
Global economies are under severe pressure and as the business environment becomes more competitive, engineering firms may have to become innovative to stay afloat. Local IT firm Xperien is now offering high-end Certified Refurbished Systems (CRS) including...
Locking down the-value of ICT services contract
The dynamics involved in selling or leasing ICT equipment, and related support, continues to change at a rapid rate, the pace determined by innovation. Experts in ICT services and solutions point out that over time vendor/client contracts, lease periods, migration of...
Own disaster recovery at a business level or risk failing
Organisations need to move away from treating business continuity and disaster recovery as isolated IT conversations. Unless businesses ensure they also take people and processes into account when planning for disasters, they run the risk of not surviving them. This...
Now there’s office space as a service
In today's difficult economic climate, companies are increasingly looking for smarter ways to procure the office space they need - especially now that the added expense and management burden of resilience is added to the mix. Ernst Wolfaardt, GM: operations at...
Integrated, multi-dimensional business continuity
The discipline of business continuity management has changed - and the days of it being exclusively driven by IT are long gone. Redstor, a global provider of cloud backup services and data protection solutions, says businesses can no longer function in departmental...
Build business resilience in an uncertain world
First there was disaster recovery, then came business continuity and now companies are looking for ways to build business resilience. "This changing vocabulary reflects the nature of the business context and how companies are looking to mitigate risk," says Michael...
What’s next for disaster recovery?
When it comes to modern data protection, not all data should be treated the same way. Long gone are the days of just dumping a bunch of files onto a tape overnight and sending it to the vault, wites Mark Bentkower, CISSP, director of systems engineering: ASEAN at...
Tips on invoking your business continuity plan
Growing numbers of organisations in the private and public sectors have business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place to ensure organisational resilience in the face of disaster. A few organisations fully understand what events should trigger the invocation...
Outsourcing ‘still makes good business sense’
The truth facing all businesses operating in today's market is that because of the advent of technology and systems, there are several ways to manage resources. However, while security and access control are front of mind for decision makers as they consider ICT...
Using social media in a crisis
Thanks to smartphones and tablets, the use of social media has exploded. For many people, social media platforms are now much more than a way to keep in touch with friends and family, or to find out what's hot--they are also a way to be alerted to events that could...