Sacci raises carbon tax concerns

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) believes the proposed upcoming carbon tax will have a negative effect on South Africa’s economy. In a statement, the CEO of Sacci, Neren Rau, says: “Sacci is concerned with the potential malign economic impact...

Security concerns plague cloud services

Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner says that SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a...

Security still an issue for cloud adopters

While companies have become increasingly comfortable with the security of third-party cloud service providers, data security, particularly at the end-user level, as well as concerns over meeting compliance requirements, remain top-of-mind among cloud adopters. This is...

Addressing the data centre in the cloud

Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move, says Roelof Louw, Cloud Expert at T-Systems in South Africa.  For small medium enterprises...

What are SMBs concerned about?

Cost reduction, data protection and performance, as well as customer care, remain at the top of European SMBs’ business agendas for 2013, according to a new study by International Data Corporation (IDC). Consistently, the most important objectives for the IT...