World Economic Forum for Africa: It’s a wrap

Kathy Gibson was at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town – With violence against women top of the South African mind, it’s appropriate that one of the initiatives adopted by the World Economic Forum tackles this issue. Borge Bunde, president of the World...
SUSE and the Africa success story

SUSE and the Africa success story

Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague – In just six years, SUSE has gone from just about nowhere to being an enterprise platform leader in South Africa – and the future is bright as companies under pressure to transform look to the open source platform. Matthew Lee, sale...
SUSE and the Africa success story

SUSEcon: Multimodal OS to bridge gap

Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague — SUSE is readying a multimodal operating system that will help CIOs bridge the growing gap between Mode 1 and Mode 2 IT operations. Business realities are driving cloud, software-defined everything and digital transformation. This is...
Reporting from VMWorld 2017, Barcelona

Reporting from VMWorld 2017, Barcelona

Partnerships key to VMware EMEA growth Kathy Gibson at VMworld in Barcelona — Partnering remains the core of VMware’s business, with 95% of sales in the EMEA region being signed through partners. “The company has had phenomenal momentum over the past year,” says Jean...
Cognitive computing improves IT security

Cognitive computing improves IT security

Kathy Gibson was at the IBM Watson Summit 2017 in Kyalami and reports that cybercrime is out of control; it is a systemic problem and it is getting worse. Cybercrime is estimated that about 4-billion records were breached last year because of cyber-attacks. But why is...