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Commercial security: it’s all about integration these days
Owners and operators of commercial facilities are no longer looking for individual security solutions. Today they want a package that offers all the aspects of security they need. Whether a property is owner-occupied or tenant-occupied, providing the most efficient security…
IT News Africa: Top Tech Stories of the Week
At the next Selling to the CIO Masterclass, set to take place on 29 – 30 June 2016 at Henley Business School in Johannesburg, attendees will learn key strategies to successfully win over the CIO. In addition, leading CIOs will…
Global Carrier WiFi Equipment Market to Reach $1.5 Billion by 2020
The global carrier WiFi equipment market totaled $713 million in 2015. The market has grown consistently year-over-year since 2007, initially due to the proliferation of WiFi as a hotspot service, but increasingly driven by a diverse customer base and technologies…
Spearphishing – the prelude to bigger things
Spearphishing can be the start of a bigger attack and difficult to defend against, but by encouraging customers to employ robust security training and policies MSPs can help companies become more secure, says Ian Trump. While we’ve become very effective…
Why IT security experts feel unprepared for email attacks
IT security experts are feeling increasingly unprepared and too out-of-date to reasonably defend against email-based threats, with a late 2015 finding that only 35% of its respondents were confident of their preparedness to deal with email attacks. The global study,…
Gartner says Digital Banking demands new technology
Banks face intense pressure to increase efficiencies and reduce costs while delivering next-generation digital services; however, incumbent application vendors have been slow to respond to new requirements, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2019, 25 per…
Banking security in Africa reaching a tipping point?
Entersekt CEO, Schalk Nolte, looks at the growing security risks for banks and financial institutions in Africa and explains why complacency is no longer an option. Despite some consolidation in the African banking market, most of the banks we are…
Africa leads the way with mobile data
There has been a significant shift in the telecommunications landscape over the last 15 years, and the fast evolution of connectivity has brought us from the screeching tones of a dial up connection to ADSL, fibre, WiFi and 2,3 and…
South Africa needs to prepare for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) will, as it grows, automate and inform an increasing number of operations, applications and processes. With no dedicated infrastructure in place for IoT – i.e., to send, receive or transport IoT signals – it is…
Reclaiming virtualised resources in business
One of the biggest advantages of virtualisation is that Virtual Machines (VMs) are easy to provision and deploy, as one does not have to order a physical machine, wait for it, find space for it and then deploy it. The…
Business Connexion Group acquires RDC Group
As the appetite for cloud-based solutions continues to grow, a number of enterprise companies are moving towards engineering hardware and software to simplify IT, making use of the cloud to allow for easy adoption. Embracing this shift towards cloud adoption,…
Telkom Group’s Openserve to peer at NAPAfrica
In another significant move to strengthen customer focus through a more flexible and agile operating model, Telkom Group’s Openserve wholesale and networks division has announced that it is peering at Africa’s largest Internet eXchange Point (IXP), NAPAfrica. Lex van Wyk,…
Top 4 content tools for Nigerian Bloggers
With millions of blog posts published every day, there is the need for bloggers to be conscientious in planning and developing engaging content for their unique audiences and business needs. Every blogger in Nigeria, and globally, understands how difficult it…
Uber takes a step towards sustainable mobility with UberGreen
The transport sector accounts for 13% of CO₂ emissions in South Africa, making it the second largest emitter of CO₂ in the country. Every step towards finding ways to reduce carbon emissions from transport will go a long way towards…
Hack Jozi Challenge selects top ten digital ideas
The top ten of the 2016 #Hack.Jozi Challenge has been announced. The varied ideas include ways for parents to reduce screen time for their children, a free pick up and drop off laundry service and an online platform to upload…
Video Interview: Veeam’s Doug Hazelman Discusses Nimble Integration
IT News Africa caught up with Doug Hazelman at the 2016 VeeamOn Forum, which was held at Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai. In the interview below, Doug Hazelman discusses Nimble integration, the power of storage, as well as Veeam’s upcoming…
