Enterprise IT
What are the Top Storage Trends for 2022?
With 2021 behind us, we look at the storage market to see an exciting 2022 ahead of us. Cyber resilience, AI, supercharged application and workload performance and availability, and reduction of OPEX and CAPEX in today’s world of hybrid cloud and containers – all of these come together to frame up the next 12 months. Understanding these enterprise storage trends will give you an advantage and help you formulate your strategic IT plan going forward. Read what is coming your way in 2022. Trend #1: THE critical nature of data and cyber resilience from the storage estate within the corporate/company cybersecurity strategy The threat of cyber-attacks has reached such a feverish pitch that 66% of Fortune 500 CEOs named it their #1 business threat in the Fortune 500 CEO survey in mid-2021. Simila...
Forecast: Information Technology in 2022
Lisa Strydom, Senior Manager of Channel and Alliances – Africa, Veeam Software As South Africa battles a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, all eyes are on how businesses will steady the ship and continue to prepare themselves for future shocks and disruptions. This, coupled with a global surge in cyber-attacks, means that digital transformation and acceleration remain as relevant and important, if not more so, than ever. Lisa Strydom considers digital transformation, the IT industry generally, and the channel in South Africa. She looks at the opportunities, where change and movement are likely to happen, and how partners can build fruitful long-term partnerships with customers. Lisa is particularly passionate about skills development. Is it possible to get through an industry conversatio...
Remote teams, the new HQ and virtual company culture: the future of hybrid work
“Given the opportunity to work from home, especially if they can get out of a long commute, is quite attractive to people,” emphasised Dixon. “There’s been a fundamental change in the way people want to work. Yet hybrid working, he said, has so many benefits for CEOs, CFOs and HR directors, too. “It’s much cheaper for companies – it’s a lot cheaper for people, they can spend more time nearer to their families and communities. We believe that from this will emerge a complete change in the geography and the method of work in the future.”
Huawei announces new MateBook B series laptops
The HUAWEI MateBook B7-410 features an ultra-lightweight unibody made of aerospace-grade aluminium. International technology giant Huawei believes that the future of smart offices will be defined by integration: of devices, of interactions and of ecosystems. We are living in an era that demands constant connectivity and collaboration, and the extent to which we are currently creating and sharing content across multiple devices is only likely to grow. Tech solutions, if they are to stay relevant in this evolving space, need to meet this need in ever more innovative ways. The coexistence of multiple screens – phones, tablets, laptops and PCs – is especially common in the business world, particularly as companies continue to embrace the possib...
Data Helps Accelerate Innovation on Path to Net Zero, Industry Leaders Say at AVEVA Sustainability Panel
Lisa Johnston, Chief Sustainability Officer at AVEVA Sustainability and Environment Leaders from Microsoft, Neste, Ørsted, Schneider Electric, and AVEVA Offer Actionable Takeaways to Realize Climate-Positive Targets AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, driving digital transformation and sustainability, joined companies across the technology and energy spectrum to underscore the multifaceted role of digitalization in helping to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across the ecosystem. Delegates at the recent landmark conference, AVEVA PI World, heard how data-led innovation can help unlock sustainability benefits at every level. The unanimous message was delivered by sustainability and environment leaders from Schneider Electric, Ørsted, Neste, Microsoft and AVEVA on a Sustainabilit...
Lenovo Announces New ThinkVision Large Format Displays
Lenovo has introduced a new line-up of ThinkVision™ large format displays (LFD) for meeting rooms and education spaces. ThinkVision T86, T75 and T65 offer effective collaboration for in-room and remote people thanks to bright 4K displays, integrated whiteboard software with a comfortable writing experience, built-in speakers, microphones, and a modular webcam for smarter video conferencing. Powered by a high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) with embedded Android™ operating system1, the displays feature a simple graphical user interface to access the most common functions and applications. Deliver effective presentations on screen directly from the embedded software or from a PC device through a wired connection with video cable or wireless connection with the W20 wireless don...
How does Scalefusion Enable Secure Access to an Organization’s On-Premise Microsoft Active Directory
We are well aware that today’s business world relies heavily on remote working. Whether we consider the dispersed teams working from home, or on-field teams working from diverse remote locations, technology plays a vital role in streamlining remote operations. Workplace flexibility has become common and cloud-based deployments are the new normal. Considering the wide range of benefits that the cloud platform extends to its users, businesses all over the globe are preferring cloud-based deployments. However, even though a majority of processes are taken over by the cloud, businesses still have some resources that are hosted on their in-house servers, which are not openly available on the web. These resources, for example, the Microsoft Office Suite, are known as ‘on-premise’ resources. How ...
Integrated cloud calling for an agile workforce
Prebashini Reddy, Microsoft Product Manager at Westcon-Comstor The global unified communications and collaboration market grew by more than 29% percent last year thanks in no small part to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, it is set to grow even more in the coming years to top $50 billion by the end of 2023. Invariably, this has resulted in companies relying on multiple communication platforms to cater for an increasingly distributed workforce. For instance, the use of Microsoft Teams has grown exponentially during the past two years. In November 2019, Microsoft reported 20 million active daily users of Teams. At the end of April 2021, this number jumped to 145 million. As things start normalising around this ‘new’ environment, organisations are looking for ...
How Finance Companies Can Reduce EMI Default Risk on Smartphone Financing
Image sourced from the Digital Frontiers Institute. In a dynamic world driven by innovation and automation, every sector, whether industrial or not relies heavily on the latest technologies. Smartphones are amongst the popular mobile devices that everyone wants to own. The incessant demand for buying smartphones and other mobile devices has given rise to propositions such as device financing. Device financing allows users to spread out their payment for the purchase of smartphones and other devices into smaller fragments that can be paid over a fixed duration. This makes it possible for users to buy the latest devices despite their high costs without burning a hole in their pockets. Who are device financers? Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) or device resellers are generally those wh...
Exclusive Networks Acquires Cyber Specialist to Establish Sub-Sahara African Presence
Jesper Trolle, CEO Exclusive Networks. Exclusive Networks, a global trusted cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure, has completed its acquisition of Networks Unlimited. Networks Unlimited is a major regional value-added distributor serving 38 national markets in Africa with cybersecurity and infrastructure solutions. The acquisition establishes Exclusive Networks’ first presence in sub-Saharan Africa, expanding its global footprint and providing new opportunities for vendor and reseller partners both within the region and around the world. “This is the perfect acquisition for us in Africa – I’m pleased to welcome Networks Unlimited into the global Exclusive family and believe this brings a host of benefits and opportunities to all our partners,” said Jesper Trolle, CEO at Excl...
How Brand Trust Can Benefit by Preserving Digital Privacy
Image sourced from Pexels. Consumer data is valuable, and nowadays, all businesses wish to get to know their clients as closely as possible. However, certain strategies can spook potential clients. For instance, predicting your clients’ preferences and future purchases might seem like the golden ticket to success. Sadly, it might not go as planned as customers will feel that your approach is intrusive and creepy. Thus, all marketing specialists now walk a thin line. Is a particular marketing campaign brilliant, or will it cause some unnecessary confusion? The good news is that if you get things right, digital privacy and care for consumers’ data could be a part of your brand. What is digital privacy? Most programs and applications require a login name and a password to create an account yo...
5 Ways to Rethink Your Business Tools to Optimize Their Value
There are a number of business tools every organizational setup puts to use to help get important jobs done. However, those who use these tools just use them for the purposes they were created for. It is not a bad idea, but the business world is evolving and to make more reasonable progress, you need to think outside the box when using these tools. Here are 5 ways to rethink your business tools in order to optimize their values? 1. Generate leads using videos Usually, companies or business entities use video advertisements to promote their products so they can reach the wider community. This is a good move as it helps drive sales for the company. However, there are other ways to use these videos other than just to promote products. You can generate quality leads. How do you achieve this? L...
