Making use of multiple clouds? Immutable storage is the one solution that will keep your company’s data safe. As businesses increasingly rely on the cloud to manage their data, they face more pressing concerns regarding data security and integrity. These concerns become even more complex in multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, where companies distribute data across multiple platforms. But […]
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CA Southern Africa driving Symantec Enterprise Cloud in SA’s enterprise sector
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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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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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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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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Data discovery is where it all begins
Do you know what data you have, where it is and who is using it? If not, you are on a highway of pain on several fronts. Data has become the key corporate lever for growth and competitive advantage. Not coincidentally, the digitalisation of business and industry is generating ever-growing volumes of data −1 000 […]
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Assessing data literacy in companies, sales teams
In my first article in this series, I established the critical importance for every sales leader to have effective sales reporting, analytics and eventually advanced analytics. In this article, I will firstly explore building data culture and literacy, and what benefits can be gained by a more data-driven decision-making approach. This relates to the fact that […]
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Use analytics to set sales targets that are on point
Whether we know it or not, we are all in sales, from the first line ambassador of the business − the receptionist − through to the CFO and CEO… everybody in the organisation. Without sales there are no customers, no revenues, hence no profit − essentially no business. Sales truly fuel every function of the […]
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