CIOs must get their heads in the cloud

There is probably no hotter topic in business technology right now than cloud computing. Like many other rapidly popularised technologies, the cloud has inspired its fair share of advocates and detractors, with opinions often drawn from both fact and fiction alike. As...

SA security is under-financed, say CIOs

At least 53% of South African-based IT decision-makers feel that not enough time or money is available to develop IT security policies. As a result, barely half of the companies feel that they have highly-organised, systematic processes to deal with threats. These...

EMEA’s CIOs focus on virtualisation

An independent market research survey commissioned by Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, reveals that 70% of IT decision makers are looking to centralise applications during 2013.  The Riverbed commissioned survey questioned 400 CIOs in Europe...

The dark side of cloud

In every technology publication I open, every business symposium I attend, every CIO roundtable I facilitate, we hear about the next wave of change branded “cloud”, says Rudie Raath, chief technologist and country manager: Presales, Cloud & Strategic Pursuit, HP...

Enterprise architecture must drive strategy

CIOs are increasingly looking to enterprise architecture (EA) to help drive their digital strategy, according to Gartner. Fifty-two percent of respondents in Gartner’s 2013 CEO and Senior Executive Survey said their organisations have a digital strategy....