by Dianne Bayley | Apr 17, 2019 | Sustainability
South Africa’s skills shortage is preventing the country from achieving the 5% annual GDP growth, which is the only real chance of making a dent in poverty. In a 2018 report, Pew Research estimated that some 900 000 people born in South Africa were living abroad in...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Past Editions
Sky’s the limit for application developers, all the news from Mobile World Congress, IoT in the real world, and SA takes to the public cloud. Read the latest issue of Business IT here.
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Innovation
Recent power issues have focused the spotlight sharply on the necessity to deal with the real possibility of having loss of access to one’s data, says Simon Hwang, APAC President at Synology. Locally, load shedding challenged business continuity and made prospering in...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Sustainability
It’s the year 2050. The sun bleeds red across the African sky and then plunges the little town into darkness all too soon. A mother and child sit at the kitchen table to work through the homework of the day. They swipe through online worksheets and watch a tutorial...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Sustainability
Customer churn is a major health metric listed companies tend to share in their annual and other reports with good reason. It’s often a lot cheaper to retain a customer than it is to get a new one. Smaller businesses can also benefit by reducing churn, which is the...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Security and Legal
So far this year, there have been five documented cases of organisations exposing their private data due to misconfigured S3 buckets or cloud databases. Wait, says Lori MacVittie, Principal Threat Evangelist, F5 Networks, let’s fix that: Due to intentionally...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Innovation
Insurance is typically something people resent having to spend money on and is therefore often seen as a grudge purchase. In an economic climate where individuals have less disposable income than ever, retaining customers and attracting new ones can prove challenging...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Fuzzing is a term that sounds hard to take seriously. But it needs to be, in light of today’s attack landscape. Fuzzing has traditionally been a sophisticated technique used by professional threat researchers to discover vulnerabilities in hardware and software...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 16, 2019 | Security and Legal
By Timothy Smit, Director and Megan Badenhorst, Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Facebook, according to Statista, had 2.32 billion monthly active users by the fourth quarter of 2018. Thanks to Facebook, you can post videos,...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 12, 2019 | Report-back
Digital determination was the theme at the IDC CIO Summit, held recently at Zimbali Lodge in KwaZulu-Natal. Kathy Gibson reports Digital determination the new key to success In 2019, digital transformation is well advanced, with various degrees of success seen...
