Turn images into valuable business assets
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – Consider for a moment how many images you come into contact with every day. They could be photographs, security camera stills, business cards, PDFs of documents, and more. Sure, the company stores them – but...
Payment processing should optimise in-store profit
Payments are still mostly seen as a budget line item by most retailers. It’s a necessary annoyance that needs to be negotiated with a bank or provider and a set of terminals that needs to be as cost-effective as possible. But this misses an incredible opportunity...
What your email gateway may not be seeing
I do not think most organisations are ignoring email security, writes Michael Currie, director at The Cloud Crew. They have filters, policies, awareness training, endpoint protection, and often a secure email gateway that has been in place for years. Attackers know...
Changing compliance from onerous to excellence with AI intelligence
Compliance is challenging on multiple levels, but perhaps the most significant is scale. Once a business is processing millions of transactions, checking activity against established policies and controls, while investigating exceptions, places a considerable...
The exponential expansion of the enterprise attack surface
The risk to the business has grown significantly thanks to the widening footprint of the enterprise attack surface, writes Richard Frost, head of technology solutions and consulting at Armata Cyber Security. The enterprise risk footprint has grown exponentially. Until...
Can AI out-govern corporate politics?
Every business leader knows the invisible tax that eats away at productivity, innovation, and trust. That tax is corporate politics, and it is more corrosive than most operational problems because it hides in plain sight. By Linda Saunders, country manager and senior...
The costly cybersecurity mistake isn’t the click – it’s the silence that follows
An employee clicks on a suspicious link, realises something is wrong and decides not to tell anyone. They might be embarrassed or worried about getting into trouble. Meanwhile, the security team has no idea that something may have happened, losing valuable time to...
People will determine whether AI in the workforce works or not
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are changing how work is done across industries. From warehouses and manufacturing environments to recruitment, administration and customer service, technology is increasingly becoming part of everyday operations. But...
AI adoption should start with the work, not the tool
Across Africa, there is no shortage of AI pilots. PwC’s 2026 research found that 82% of organisations are running them, while 64% of workers are already using AI. However, few organisations have managed to scale that activity across the enterprise, writes Dillon Gray,...
AI turns surveillance into smart security
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – When it comes to surveillance, recording video data is important – but AI-powered search is key to building smarter systems that add value. Having offering video management and storage for about 18 years,...
Synology leads the return of the on-premise productivity suite
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – As AI becomes pervasive, there is increasing pressure on organisations to retain control of their data. Mirian Lin, account manager at Synology, today introduced delegates to Synology’s Open Day in Cape Town...
Future-ready data storage key for modern enterprises
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – In an increasingly digital and AI-led business environment, organisations are more dependent than ever on their data – and the ability to store, protect and manage this data becomes an existential issue. Mike...