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Checkers Rush concept store: The inside story
Shoprite Group on Wednesday announced it has launched a pilot store in Cape Town that has no cashiers and no checkout counters. The store is entirely powered by cameras and artificial intelligence software. There isn't even a point of sale -- consumers' bank cards are billed automatically as they leave…
Managing workloads across multi-cloud environments with Morpheus [promoted]
Axiz is well known for its distribution network, but its cloud services business is growing rapidly, too. With the aid of Morpheous, a multi-cloud management platform, Axiz may have found the secret ingredient to minimising cloud-sprawl risk for both large and small companies in South Africa. In this promoted podcast,…
Zero Trust: The marathon businesses need to be ready to run [promoted]
First Distribution supports multiple partners, but one of the fastest growing is Trend Micro, which has been offering world-class security solutions for more than 30 years now. In this episode of the podcast, host Daniel Robus chats to Trend Micro’s technical lead for sub-Saharan Africa, Emmanuel Tzingakis, and First Distribution…
How Sean Sanders is building Revix into a crypto powerhouse [promoted]
Sean Sanders, founder and CEO of Revix, joins Daniel Robus in this episode of the podcast to talk about why he started the cryptocurrency investment company and his plans for the future. It’s an interview with a difference, though, with a strong focus on building a fintech business in South…
Stellenbosch start-up 6DOT50 brings crypto to retail
Stellenbosch-based start-up 6DOT50 is hoping to help consumers spend bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in retail stores and online in South Africa, making it easier to use crypto money for purchases. In this episode of the podcast, 6DOT50 founder Warren Venter talks to TechCentral's Duncan McLeod about why it’s enabling support…
e4's Carla de Abreu on doing document management right [promoted]
In the second of a series of interviews with e4, TechCentral is joined by the company's business development manager, Carla de Abreu, for a discussion on modern document management. Document management software is an increasingly critical part of any business in the digital era. Instead of rows of filing cabinets,…
Duarte da Silva on the pioneering days of South African IT
Businessman, entrepreneur, deal maker and advisor Duarte da Silva joins Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about South Africa's IT industry, with a specific focus on Dimension Data. Da Silva recently posted a heartfelt tribute on LinkedIn to Jeremy Ord, Dimension Data's co-founder, who resigned last…
Interview: The modern threat landscape - identify, isolate, respond [promoted]
In today’s episode, TechCentral is joined by Praven Pillay, MD of Maxtec, and Andrew Parker, chief technology officer of Teknov8, to talk about the modern threat landscape. Pillay has 25 years’ IT experience under the belt and is well known in the South African technology market for managing a tight…
First Technology's Gerhard Olivier on why your company needs Aruba [promoted]
Gerhard Olivier’s passion for technology shines through. As manager of consulting services at First Technology, he’s well positioned to talk on both the technology challenges and solutions to solve them. First Technology has a long history with Hewlett Packard Enterprises’ Aruba Networks, and Olivier is passionate about the company’s offerings…
Kicking off your Kubernetes [promoted]
Containerisation has moved on from something that was spoken about at geek conventions to mainstream development. Gartner has predicted that 85% of global businesses will be running containers in production by 2022, up from 35% in 2019. It has become clear that organisations that want to remain agile and future-proof…
Inside the fast-changing world of CCTV, with Vumacam and Ava Security
Personal security is a topic of interest for all South Africans. In this podcast, a panel of guests from Ava Security and Vumacam explore the convergence of video, predictive analytics and human interaction to fight crime. Gavin Hill, CIO of Vumacam, explains that large-scale CCTV deployments are complex IT challenges…
NBConsult's Nicolas Blank on the fast-changing world of IT backup
The TechCentral podcast often focuses on large enterprises. Today, though, we’re doing a deep dive into the world of small and medium enterprise solutions. Nicolas Blank, CEO of NBConsult, has a long history of providing customer-focused solutions across Africa, the UK and Hong Kong. His mantra is to focus on…
Calvin Collett unpacks Supersonic's Air Fibre - here's how it works
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Calvin Collett, MD at MTN-owned Internet service provider Supersonic, about its new Air Fibre uncapped broadband product launched this month. Collett unpacks what Air Fibre is exactly -- it uses unlicensed frequency bands to deliver guaranteed download speeds of up to…
Vox ICE: A technology solution for caring for the elderly
Rudi Potgieter, executive head of Guardian Eye at Vox, joins the podcast to talk about Vox ICE, a product which is saving lives through an innovative, low- cost technology solution. The current global economic environment is pulling young workers away from their homes and leaving the elderly behind. Vox ICE…
Interview: Amazon Web Services, and how it got its start in South Africa
Amazon Web Services already has a team of 7 000 people in South Africa, most of them based in Cape Town, but the US cloud computing giant is not done hiring as it ramps up investment in the country. That’s according to Clive Charlton, head of solution architecture for AWS…
Interview: The real cost of data protection [promoted]
Lee Williams, Veritas product manager at Axiz, joins TechCentral podcast host Daniel Robus to share insights into the ever-changing world of backup and recovery in the cloud. Williams plays an important role as the link between Veritas, partners and customers, which affords her a good vantage to see what’s working…
South Africa's draft data and cloud policy: Experts unpack what it means
On 1 April, the department of communications & digital technologies quietly published a draft national data and cloud policy that has potentially far-reaching implications for the private sector, state-owned enterprises and the public sector broadly. Among other objectives, the draft policy document - which could lead to legislative amendments or…
CallMiner’s Brian LaRoche on why contact centres are the buzz again [promoted]
Boston is known for its beauty, Fenway Park, the Boston marathon, and that pub from Cheers. It’s also the home of an executive with the one of the coolest titles ever, “Driving the buzz at CallMiner”. In this podcast, Brian LaRoche joined us for an early morning discussion, talking about…
Herman Maritz on building EskomsePush - and what comes next
EskomsePush is by far South Africa's most popular smartphone application for checking load shedding schedules. Herman Maritz, co-creator of the app with Dan Wells, joins the TechCentral podcast to chat about what's next. In the podcast, Maritz explains how the idea for the app came about - including its name…
Interview: MySky Networks founders on building a successful MSP [promoted]
Two brothers decided to take a gap in the managed service provider (MSP) market six years ago and have not looked back since. Dean Horsten (chief technology officer) and Dylan Horsten (CEO) head up MySky Networks, a Cape Town-based MSP that is making waves in the small and medium enterprise…