ITWeb picks the brains of industry professionals on what stood out for them this year - and what they see making headlines in 2014.

CIOs are no longer meeting the expectations of their companies and are in danger of being deposed by young upstarts with titles like 'chief digital officer'.

Telecoms players must up their games.

Tablets are beginning to take their rightful place in local classrooms and lecture halls.

The 'Father of the Internet' had more of a hand in SA's Internet industry than many realise.

42Engines is a tech start-up accelerator programme concentrating on Africa-specific tech ideas.

Bring your own device and the consumerisation of IT pose new challenges for enterprise information security.

Security concerns once held back enterprise adoption of cloud services. Now, they're driving organisations to the cloud.

Ethical hacking - especially penetration testing - is a fast-growing segment of the information security market.

Gartner says the cloud security services market will reach $2.1 billion this year.

Hosted managed services is changing the game for customers and providers, with a shake-up looming due to saturation in the enterprise market.

Convenience and cost of hosted services need to be weighed against control over an organisation's data