How to use POPI as a competitive differentiator
The recently-enacted Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, which sets conditions for how organisations can process information, has caused significant upheaval in the South African business environment. Companies are either panicking about how to comply or...
Make 2015 the year for becoming resilient
As one of the goals for the New Year, companies should take stock of how resilient they are, and take steps to improve their ability to prevent disasters, and to recover should one occur. “As part of their business continuity management, companies assess the risks...
Going over the top
Mobile operators haven’t fully understood or unlocked the value of media and content in their networks
The hybrid balancing act
Businesses need to get to grips with the hybrid cloud as compliance demands increase. By Ian Jansen van Rensburg, senior systems engineering manager at VMware Southern Africa There’s little doubt that the demands on IT are more intense than ever. The proliferation of...
Africa and the new network
Cloud: big benefits for small businesses
Bernard Kur, head of product at Global Micro Solutions, looks at the opportunities available to smaller businesses when it comes to the cloud Having a cloud solution offers many benefits to business – scalability, reduced costs of software licenses, hardware and...
What cloud providers must know about compliance with the PoPI Act
Cloud computing has become a pervasive technology that has changed the way consumers and employees operate, as they have come to rely on services such as the Outlook.com, Nokia HERE Drive+, and music streaming services such as Nokia MixRadio. By Theo Watson, Microsoft...
Innovation in the Clouds
By Clayton Booysen, Developer Relations Lead at IBM South Africa Cloud computing and more increasingly cloud services have put us on the cusp of a massive shift in how we work, communicate, and solve the big problems which also constitute the biggest market...
Ethics: this time it’s personal
For Hoosen, any ethical discussion is not primarily about following the letter of the law: “Traditionally, when we talk about ethics, we tend to go to corporate governance and POPI – and for many it’s almost a boring topic, a necessary evil, with all the wrong connotations.”
A megalopolis megatrend
With more than 60 percent of the world population expected to live in urban cities by 2025, urbanisation as a trend will have diverging impacts and influences on future personal lives and mobility. Rapid expansion of city borders, driven by increase in population...
All change for the modern workforce
Technology has had a profound effect on most areas of our lives, but none more so than on the way we work. Today most of us don’t think twice about receiving – and responding to – work mails at any time of the day or night. Because we can be equally productive whether...
Bringing innovation home …
Innovation is the buzzword du jour, but it’s not so easy to nail down exactly how the CIO can position himself to lead the charge. We asked Mohamed Cassoojee, country manager of Software AG, to share some of his thoughts. What kinds of innovations should IT be...
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