AWS and Microsoft are among the richest companies in the world and the local IT industry will be intently watching how they compete on cloud in SA.
The banking and securities trading sector ramps up tech spending as the impact of the coronavirus rattles financial markets across the globe.
US-based tech giant Amazon Web Services has announced the opening of the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region.
The company’s revenue drops 3.4% and its new CEO withdraws the 2020 annual forecast in light of the coronavirus crisis.
The company sees multiple incidents of copper theft which, assuming everyone is under lockdown, should not have happened, says CEO Althon Beukes.
The new About IT Academy portal offers training programmes on cloud ERP and data analytics for IT professionals during the lockdown and beyond.
The backup and disaster recovery firm says its business model is agile and responsive to the unique requirements of the coronavirus pandemic.
While organisations may manage aspects such as firewall and server host security well, they struggle with configuration of cloud resources, says Richard Beckett, Sophos public cloud senior product marketing manager.
IT has been placed under enormous pressure to keep the knowledge economy up and running, says Nutanix.
Today, the discussion around cloud and data centre strategy is tailored around automation, says Robert Graham, technical team lead at open source technology and services provider Obsidian Systems.
The company introduces a series of rapid response initiatives to help business during the COVID-19 crisis, including Aris A4 and digital basic training.
The goal of enterprise software is to streamline business operations in a single business application, but in many cases, that is not how things work.