Wi-Fi plays an ever-increasing role in effective Unified Communications
While many organisations have made the move to the cloud and virtualised applications and servers in their data centres, they have been slow to virtualise Unified Communications (UC) applications says Ruckus Wireless, Inc. However, with the technological advancements made, solutions have certainly matured and companies can virtualise communications More...
Migrating to ‘Everything over IP’ – can your network handle the pressure?
Converged communications open up a host of opportunities for businesses, and IP is often seen as the ultimate solution to bringing various communication media together. From voice and data to video, security and More...
BYOD is not BAD
Given the speed at which the connected lifestyle has been adopted in the consumer market, the concept of bring your own devices (BYOD) has become more liberally accepted in the workplace. Yet, this should not be More...
How to successfully manage the BYOD trend
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is transforming the IT industry and how businesses tackle the challenges of personal mobile devices brought to work by employees. IT leaders are faced with risks and rewards More...
Number of women in ICT “woeful” globally and in Africa
The role of women in ICT across Africa- and, indeed, the number of women embarking on careers within the sector, continues to attract more attention. It is a subject fuelled by the growth of the sector across More...
African businesses can go global using procurement ecosystem
Businesses across Africa, much like their European and American counterparts, have to be more resourceful and agile in order to strengthen operations and seize market share – particularly when it comes to procurement. More...
SMS remains the best channel for business messaging
Some commentators on the state of the SMS messaging industry point to the death of SMS as a communications medium. This may be true for global consumer use of SMS messaging in the face of newer communication technologies More...
Malware never sleeps
Malware is always changing, adapting, being rewritten and re-released in a seemingly infinite number of ways, with the express intention of making your life difficult – and making the writers or owners of the More...
Seven habits of highly successful cloud-based medium businesses
No, this is not going to be yet another article about cloud services and why, as a business owner, you should be embracing all things cloud-like. That ship has sailed. Medium-sized businesses are no longer asking More...
Government must take online security seriously
The highly publicised infiltration of the South African Police Service’s back-end infrastructure has cast a strong spotlight on the efficacy of governmental IT systems. The infiltration of the South African Police More...