by Dianne Bayley | Apr 12, 2017 | Features, Workplace 2020
The average employed South African spends about eight hours per day in a work environment – and they can expect employers to ensure their safety during this time. While there are many security risks to consider, employing a potentially dangerous employee is one threat...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 5, 2017 | Features, Sustainability
Eskom’s announcement in July 2016 that it would not sign any independent power producers onto the South African power grid threw a booming renewables sector into disarray. JCRA, a leading financial risk consultancy, have today released a paper in partnership with the...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – Don’t be lulled into a sense of false security because laws and behaviours in the US may be aimed at curtailing abuses pertaining to data collection about individuals. Edward Snowden, the world’s best-known whistle-blower,...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover, March 2017 – The increasing “cloudification” of the IT environment continues with Huawei’s introduction today of an all-cloud network architecture, plus cloud-based SDN-WAN. The All-Cloud Network for enterprise spans the...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Innovation
Security, ecosystem-based services and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to offer personalised experience will be among the five main trends that will dominate the development of smart home products in 2017, IDC forecasts. Energy efficiency and entertainment...