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Behind the scenes with Exclusive Networks

It’s been just on two years since specialist value-added distributor Networks Unlimited became the local arm of Exclusive Networks. Kathy Gibson caught up with Anton Jacobsz, MD of Exclusive Networks Africa, to find out more about the thinking behind the move, and...

Digital wallets a financial services enabler in Africa

By Juan Seco – The recent GSMA 2023 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money highlights how mobile money has become a mainstream financial tool in many African countries. Since 2022, more than 184-million people across the continent have embraced mobile...

SA’s financial sector suffers highest losses from data breaches

IBM Security has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, showing the average data breach cost for South African organizations reached R49,45-million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report. This represents an 8% increase over the last three years and a 73%...

Selling the cloud demands a new type of salesperson

The traditional sales model – sell them on the benefits, close the sale, deliver the product – is outdated in the digital world. Modern salespeople require different skills and far greater knowledge to sell the cloud, writes Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed....

Fight fraud without impacting customer experience

By Mark Wells – The continual growth in online fraud has led to a shift in financial services and telecommunications business priorities. Experian’s latest research report shows that nearly three in four senior decision-makers are now prioritising investments to...

Businesses are losing the battle of the endpoint

By Ofir Israel – From a time when businesses were essentially static entities, and employees worked from within the confines of offices, we have now moved into an age of almost complete diffusion. The rise in digital nomads means business can be conducted...

Partners don’t have to be alone on the cloud journey

As more end user customers consider a move to cloud computing, reseller partners are having to gear themselves up to be trusted advisors and competent cloud service providers. But moving from a traditional transactional partnering model to an annuity-based cloud model...

Cloud could be a new dawn for SA’s businesses

It’s cloudy out there. Cloud-native, public cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud strategy and cloud-shaped ingenuity, so why is South Africa not following in the global footsteps of adoption. Public cloud end-user spend is anticipated to reach $600 billion by the...

AMD shares tech behind confidential computing in the cloud

AMD has published the source code for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualisation (SEV) technology, the backbone of AMD EPYC processor-based confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) available from cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud,...

PMT™ expands Emerald value-added service platform into the cloud

Pattern Matched Technologies™ (PMT) will be making its Emerald™ Realtime value-added service distribution platform available to customers in Africa as a cloud-based service. The solutions developer is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and First Distribution...

There’s more to the skills shortage than emigration

By Richard Firth – Corporate South Africa has been talking about – and worried about – a “brain drain” resulting from the emigration of skilled individuals for over 20 years. Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest this remains a serious concern, and we regularly...

Critical gaps in identity threat protection exposed

The identity attack surface is the most significant gap in cybersecurity resilience today with existing solutions like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and privileged access management (PAM) leaving critical exposures and allowing for the malicious use of compromised...

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