Devices like the smart watch, smart glasses, earplugs and toothbrushes will start hitting the market towards the end of 2014, says Santosh Varghese, GM of Digital Products and Services at Toshiba Gulf.
The increasing number of attacks on mobile devices correlates with the growing number of Internet-connected devices in the marketplace, says Richard Broeke, a consultant at Securicom.
The co-mingling of personal and work applications and data increases the risk of corporate data loss and malware breaches, says Brad Pulford, enterprise solutions group director at Dell.
SMEs can save on mobile costs and manage their communication expenditure with new offerings from Telkom, says Megan Nicholas, managing executive at Telkom Business.
Apps do more than they advertise, often infecting the user with malware that can steal information, login details, or take over the device, says Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Phoenix Distribution.
It is likely that more M2M solutions for car dealers will enter the market, offering value-added services to their customers, says Derick Roberts, CEO of TruTeq Devices.
Michal Harris, director of market insight and strategy at Amdocs, unpacks trends that are likely to emerge in the multi-channel access, big data, virtualisation and SME spaces.
An automated process approach translates to a reduction in costs and employee workload, says Mark Hiller, GM at Lexmark South Africa.
There is little incentive for software developers to use their talents locally, since there is no preferential procurement policy that encourages enterprises to use locally developed products, says Rick Parry, CEO of AIGS.
Distributed storage networks outperform SANs in that virtual servers are able to write to a local disk, as opposed to a disk on the network, says Martin Bester, cloud integrations specialist at Oceanhost.
Business risks in 2014 are becoming more extreme, says Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA.
None of the current available network options offer the level of reliability required to accommodate critical business networks in the cloud, says Dawie de Wet, CEO of Q-KON.
