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COMMENT: Business continuity and disaster-recovery-as-a-service

Kevin Krige, Head of Datacentre and Cloud Service, BT in Africa, says the list of potential threats to businesses continues to grow. Today’s integrated digital networked economy – and as business operations inc...

Public cloud presents unique challenges, says Securicom

South African businesses are increasingly shifting applications, services and infrastructure to the cloud where they are more accessible and available. However, Securicom says companies are discovering that the public...

Creating lasting success for your technology initiatives

Article  by Mpumi Nhlapo, Sales & Service Management Head: Demand Management at T-Systems SA. A mere decade ago, the world’s biggest companies were the likes of General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil and Ci...

How South African companies can use blockchain to drive business value

Research by Accenture indicates that only 31% of local executives state that blockchain and smart contracts will be critical or very critical to their organisations over the next three years – versus a global...

Rethinking data security with a risk adaptive approach

Christo van Staden, Forcepoint Regional Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, says the two megatrends of cloud-based applications and mobile devices have been a boon for company productivity, agility, and innovation. The...

Itec Southern Africa expert on the introduction of GDPR

After a prolonged period of two years, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a wide-reaching new piece of European legislation, is coming into full force. Though this law may seem a world away from South...

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