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November 10, 2017 •
Backup and Storage, Opinion, Southern Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Backups are the missing element in many organisations’ BYOD strategies
Over the past few years, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has entrenched itself in many large companies’ IT policies and become a part of their organisational culture. CIOs acknowledge that BYOD has enabled the workforce to become more mobile, productive and...
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January 19, 2016 •
Enterprise, Opinion, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on BYOD: The big why around using different devices
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) responsive, and multi-device are just some words that today are part of our lives. Multi-device strategies are devised and policies are prepared for BYOD. The use of different devices has led to a whole new way of working. Gartner...
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January 15, 2016 •
Enterprise, Opinion, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on Companies must embrace BYOD strategically
Research shows that the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is not only here to stay, but will, in fact, grow in significance in next few years. Human Capital Management and HR experts at CRS Technologies believe that businesses ought to conduct a thorough...
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December 23, 2015 •
Enterprise, Opinion, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on How to get your own slice of BYOD
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is rapidly increasing making it necessary for organisations to adapt to this growing movement. Businesses can no longer afford to lose out on the mobility, flexibility and productivity gains that BYOD offers. Evolving...
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August 17, 2015 •
Opinion, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on Controlling Data Risk in the BYOD Onslaught
Data protection has always been a challenge, even when data flow was, more or less, confined to a closed network system. Now, we have the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) era in which your employees and contractors basically feel they should be able to use...
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June 22, 2015 •
Opinion, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on Organisations need to support the BYOD trend
Organisations in Africa and globally are faced with the challenge of dealing with a highly mobile, tech-savvy workforce that demands to use devices of their choice. While this can potentially help organisations to improve productivity significantly by...
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August 8, 2014 •
Opinion, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on The blueprint for BYOD success
Just like mobile analytics, big data, the internet, and social networks changed the way companies do business, so the adoption of mobile devices has become a catalyst for change in corporations and small- to medium-enterprises (SMEs). Smartphones and tablets...
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April 2, 2014 •
Opinion •
Charlie Fripp •
Comments Off on Mobile security vs Mobile Device Management – there’s a difference
Companies are going to have to move away from a mobile security stance to a mobile device management approach if they are going to embrace Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) without compromising information security. Richard Broeke, an IT security expert at...
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February 5, 2014 •
Opinion •
Charlie Fripp •
Comments Off on SA companies needs tighter grip on mobiles
Mobile security and device management will become one of the top challenges for South African companies as attacks on smartphones and tablets are likely to increase again in 2014. So says Richard Broeke, a consultant at leading IT security company, Securicom....
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January 23, 2014 •
Opinion •
Charlie Fripp •
Comments Off on iPhones change the business landscape
Seven years ago Steve Jobs stood up at Macworld, San Francisco, and announced the first iPhone in San Francisco and in doing so launched a revolution that is still having a monumental impact on the business and social world today. Up to that time a mobile...
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September 19, 2013 •
Enterprise •
Charlie Fripp •
Comments Off on South Africa apprehensive about cloud computing
With the growth of technology, the relevance of cloud computing emerged as an important issue at Gartner’s recently-concluded Symposium and ITXpo, held in Cape Town, South Africa. Local mobile operator MTN has a number of cloud offerings, but the...
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July 24, 2013 •
Security •
Chris Tredger •
Comments Off on Cisco’s spotlight on security in Annual Report
Cisco today released findings from Cisco’s 2013 Annual Security Report (ASR) in South Africa revealing that the highest concentration of online security threats come from legitimate destinations visited by mass audiences, such as major search engines,...
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June 21, 2013 •
Security •
Chris Tredger •
Comments Off on Managing Mobile Security in South Africa
From smartphones to tablets, mobile devices continue to cause ongoing concern for IT teams responsible for information security. Sensitive corporate information can be easily transported, leaked, or lost while the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has...
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June 12, 2013 •
Opinion •
Chris Tredger •
Comments Off on 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 as BYOD has become the rule rather than...
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April 15, 2013 •
Opinion •
Chris Tredger •
Comments Off on Is BYOD negatively impacting your employee productivity?
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon has exploded in recent years as a result of mobility and the exponential growth in the popularity and the available variety of smartphones, tablets and notebook computers. By allowing employees to bring their...
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March 4, 2013 •
Opinion •
Chris Tredger •
Comments Off on BYOD poses serious risks to IT security
The always on, always connected, productivity-on-the-go trend of allowing smartphone and tablet toting employees to take their own devices to work (known as BYOD, or “bring your own device”) and to plug it into the company network is growing in popularity...
