Pinnacle sets sights on African business

Pinnacle Africa is expanding its business within the SADC region with immediate effect, launching a new business division under the Pinnacle Africa umbrella to facilitate growth north of the border. This will exclude existing businesses in Namibia and Botswana, with...

10 things small business owners should know

The small business sector is one of the fastest growing and most active in the market today. Much of the investment, R&D and innovation stems from this segment. It is a hotbed of start-ups and business development, where business concepts are brought to fruition....

The future of business lies in the cloud

The evolution of cloud-based technology has dramatically changed the business landscape in the past few years, and the latest developments in technology are set to create even further disruption, says Peter Reid, SharePoint Solutions Head at Intervate, a T-Systems...

Businesses boom with backup revolution

The evolution of technology used to perform mission-critical data backups and support disaster recovery means that any sized organisation can be effectively protected, despite increasing data volumes and the demands of digitisation. Specialists in data protection...

Lessons from aviation for women in business

In aviation, ‘service ceiling’ is used to describe the maximum altitude that an aircraft can effectively operate. Above that it can hardly climb, glacially edging upwards towards the point it can go no higher, the absolute ceiling, says Jon Foster-Pedley, dean of...