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.
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.
It pays to partner with a service provider that has experience with cross-platform messaging and archiving migrations, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft Africa.
This year will see the continuous demand for increased effectiveness and efficiency in testing, says Aldo Rall, principal consultant at IndigoCube.
Fax servers have become virtualised, and the environment has become a fully software-based one, says Fairoz Jaffer, director of Galdon Data.
Automation has long been heralded as a way to simplify IT management, and this trend is spreading to the storage market, says Brad Pulford, enterprise solutions group director at Dell.
Jay Kidd, CTO and senior VP at NetApp, gives his predictions for 2014 and the trends that will impact the industry, including flash, cloud and software-defined storage.
Freeing up the spectrum will bring broadband coverage to everyone in South Africa, says Mitchell Barker, CEO of WhichVoIP.co.za.
Madware triggers pop-ups while users are in other applications, such as gallery, calendar or settings, says Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Phoenix Distribution.