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Gartner says South African IT spending will grow 2.4% in 2017

IT spending in South Africa is forecast to total R266 billion in 2017, a 2.4% increase from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Software is predicted to be the best-performing segment, with a 13.2% increase year-on-year...

Response to the Department of Basic Education’s hacking incident

The Department of Basic Education’s website was recently hacked by the Islamic State, posting gory pictures and a message about the US Government. Following this incident, Bryan Hamman, Territory Manager for...

Microsoft’s data centre investment to boost SA cloud adoption

Microsoft’s announcement that it plans to build hyperscale data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg to deliver a range of cloud services, is set to give a massive boost to enterprise adoption of Infrastructure as a S...

What the future of digital holds for retail banking

Article by Darrel Orsmond, Financial Services Industry Head at SAP Africa. Banks set to lose the ‘offer’ as digital disruption continues to transform industry. Banks are finding it increasingly difficult to reach and ens...

Securing IoT: know your network, protect your network

Article by Jose Vasco, Regional Director, MEMA at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Do you think about the need to secure IoT? It could be a patient monitor, a security camera or a lighting system; every...

Manage increased complexity by building an IoT war room

Be the CIO of everything – article by Jenny Beresford, Research Director at Gartner. Technologists are, at heart, today’s explorers and inventors, venturing into wild digital frontiers. As the Internet of things (...

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