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By Varsha Ramesar, Managing Executive, Data and Analytics, iOCO For decades, finance teams steered the business using a rear-view mirror to provide the information they needed to make decisions. New service delivery models, emerging trends, and rapidly changing consumer expectations have ensured that looking behind while attempting to steer forward is no longer an option […]

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Accelerated cloud adoption means many of the tasks traditionally assigned to the database administrator can now be done at the click of a button. But while the traditional DBA role may be on its way out, there’s a growing need for the Digital Database Administrator or DDA, the next generation database curator who is also […]

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CA Southern Africa, the sole sub-Saharan representative of CA Technologies – a Broadcom company – has entered into a strategic alliance with Perforce Software. The relationship is a critical building block in completing CA Southern Africa’s DevSecOps capability, says Craig de Lucchi, Account Director, CA Southern Africa.“Software is at the heart of every business nowadays, […]

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Arcserve Southern Africa has revealed that Arcserve, the world’s most experienced provider of backup, recovery and immutable storage solutions for unified data resilience against ransomware and disasters, has announced it has been named in the 2022 KuppingerCole Market Compass report for cloud backup and disaster recovery. The report awarded Arcserve’s Unified Data Protection (UDP) 8.1 […]

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The success or failure of a data project relies on the organisation’s ability to move from raw data to an analytics-ready state. By Kevin van der Merwe, Sales Director at iOCO Qlik. In this second article on data literacy and its importance, I will look at the data lifecycle and then how to integrate the […]

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The wrong storage architecture can send your company’s application modernisation strategy back to the dark ages.By Byron Horn-Botha, Business unit head, Arcserve Southern Africa.The application modernisation services market is forecast to expand from $11.4 billion in 2020 to $24.8 billion by 2025.Many companies are pursuing application modernisation strategies to replace older software with innovative computing […]

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Business continuity covers a lot of ground, ranging from facilities management to staffing, but it typically goes back to disaster recovery. While that focus is important, the ability to keep companies up and running no matter what happens calls for more.This is according to Dolf Snyman, CA Southern Africa Account Director, who adds that resiliency […]

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Why data literacy is so important, what the current state of play is, and how to start the journey towards becoming a truly data-driven enterprise. If your firm − and that means everybody in it − does not “speak data” then it is certainly headed for the scrapheap sometime soon. In the first of two […]

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Leaders need to be at the top of their game if they are to make mainframe compliance and security part of a winning business strategy. This is according to Dolf Snyman, Account Director at CA Southern Africa.CA Southern Africa is the sole sub-Saharan representative of CA Technologies, a Broadcom company.New technologies simplify compliance through integration […]

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