CA Southern Africa, a representative of Broadcom Software, is driving the Symantec Enterprise Cloud (SEC) into SA’s enterprise market. SEC is a consolidated hybrid-cloud solution offering data and threat protection backed by the worldwide network of Symantec Security Operations Centres. It is a superset of the secure service edge (SASE) that incorporates zero trust principles and […]
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Arcserve global research reveals cloud investments grow while data protection lags
Eighty-two percent of IT decision-makers expect an increase in hybrid cloud investments. Seventy percent of IT decision-makers expect an increase in multicloud investments. Forty-three percent of IT decision-makers believe cloud providers are responsible for data. Arcserve Southern Africa has revealed the key findings of an annual independent global study by Arcserve – the world’s most […]
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CA Southern Africa, Veracode reveal that when it comes to application flaws, the devil is in the data
A Southern Africa reveals that the latest edition of the annual Veracode 2023 State of Software Security reports that applications grow in size by about 40% year on year irrespective of their original size. The research aims to assist businesses to meet the multiple challenges of reducing security debt and avoiding the introduction of security flaws that accumulate over […]
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Data leaders’ challenge: The growing data skills shortage
One of the major challenges faced by data leaders today is the daunting task of collecting and transforming raw data into analytics-ready data. Moreover, the increasing volume and variety of data, along with the need to manage both cloud-based and on-premises data, makes this an increasingly complex and expensive undertaking. Additionally, data leaders are faced […]
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The Security Risks of ChatGPT
By Byron Horn-Botha, Business Unit Head Arcserve Southern Africa. ChatGPT, developed by the artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, is a humanoid chatbot causing a global sensation. It is now the fastest growing app in history, hitting 100 million active users in just two months – much faster than the nine months it took previous record-holder TikTok to reach that […]
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Moving data from source to target with ease
By Carl Butler Qlik Data Integration sales executive, iOCO. The challenge of moving data from its source in its raw state to its analytics-ready target state has become increasingly difficult. This is due to the exponential growth of data creation and collection in recent years due to digital transformation processes and adoption. Businesses are eager to […]
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The future of cloud security
By Paul Spagnoletti, Business Executive: Cloud & Security at iOCO Over the past few years, as more high profile breaches made the news – and as more data has started making its way into the cloud – security has become the number one priority for organisations. Despite the massive investments companies have been making to […]
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Breaking Up with Call Centers: How to Deliver an Amazing CX Experience
As organisations evolve their contact centres, call centres and service centres into customer experience centres, achieving time to value can be a challenge if they take a big bang platform implementation approach. Making the change incrementally can offer faster returns and an easier transition. This is according to Christiaan Kriel, Business Executive: Automation at iOCO, […]
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Weaving data into the organisational culture tapestry
Culture is defined as the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular population or society. The word is derived from the Latin ‘cultura’, stemming from ‘colere’, meaning ‘to cultivate’. It generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Culture is made up of the […]
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Application modernisation
Today’s businesses are operating in an entirely new digital arena, but they still continue to rely on monolithic legacy systems. In fact, 31% of an organisation’s infrastructure is comprised of legacy systems, and only 33% of technology in large organisations is modernised. Today’s businesses are operating in an entirely new digital arena, but they still […]
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