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‘Kubernetes is the next Linux’: SUSE’s Rob Knight on containerisation [promoted]
SUSE chief technology officer for enterprise cloud products Rob Knight believes Kubernetes technology is such a big deal that it could be considered “the next Linux”. Speaking to Daniel Robus on the TechCentral podcast, Knight provides an informative dive into the world of containerisation and mass digitisation, and the management…
Interview: Why it's absolutely crucial to get CX right [promoted]
Getting customer experience (CX) right could mean the difference between surviving and thriving, says Maxime Blanchard, Zendesk territory manager for South Africa, in this episode of the podcast. In this podcast, Blanchard and Zendesk commercial account executive for Africa Erica Hall discuss the company’s recently published CX Report and its…
e4: How regulatory technology can assist banks to transform digitally [promoted]
To keep appraised of all regulatory issues in South Africa while digitally transforming is often arduous. Simply paying attention is no longer enough, which is why regulatory technology, or regtech, now plays a crucial role and can significantly assist in ensuring all digital transformation projects are successful and compliant. That's…
Interview: What you need to know about going solar in South Africa [promoted]
With ever-escalating electricity prices and an unstable supply of power from the national energy utility, more and more South African consumers and businesses are looking to invest in solar. But what’s involved? In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Tian van der Bijl, commercial division manager at Ellies,…
Interview: DG and HP on the rapidly shifting South African IT landscape [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to representatives from Digital Generation (DG) and HP about the impact that Covid-19 has had on the local IT industry and how it's shifted conversations with end-user customers. DG marketing and sales specialist Michelle Budde kicks off the conversation with a look…
Interview: Why Dark Fibre Africa was named Top Employer 2021 [promoted]
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) was recently awarded Top Employer status in South Africa for 2021 by the Top Employers Institute. But how did the company win this highly valued accolade? In this promoted episode of the TechCentral podcast, DFA chief human capital officer Portia Thokoane and the company's head of…
'DevAnything': In conversation with iOCO's Brian Harding and Richard Vester [promoted]
In this final episode in this week's series of podcasts with executives from iOCO, the systems integrator in the EOH Holdings stable, TechCentral speaks to Brian Harding and Richard Vester about the company's local and international expertise in software development and cloud computing. Picking up on the focus of the…
Interview: Colin Millar on why iOCO is MAD about APIs [promoted]
In the fourth episode in TechCentral's s podcast showcase with iOCO, the systems integrator in the EOH Holdings stable, TechCentral speaks to Colin Millar about the rapidly growing importance to business of APIs, or application programming interfaces. In the podcast, Millar, who is MTN MAD API and Chenosis partner executive…
'Egypt is rising': An interview with iOCO's Essam Elbadri [promoted]
Egypt is on the rise. Since the "Arab Spring" a decade ago, the North African country has been on an upward march and is becoming an important centre for technology innovation. That's the view of Essam Elbadri, founder and CEO of Asset Technology Group, a company today owned by South…
iOCO's nuvoteQ: The SA company making waves in the global medtech field [promoted]
South Africa's nuvoteQ, which is part of the iOCO stable, is making waves in the global medical technology space with a focus on delivering software-as-a-service solutions to the clinical research industry. In this, the second in a series of podcast interviews with executives from iOCO, the systems integrator in the…
EOH CEO Stephen van Coller on the great African tech opportunity [promoted]
Africa is ripe with opportunities for technology-led distruption and tech companies with the right approach to this vast market stand to benefit. That's the view of EOH Holdings CEO Stephen van Coller, who introduces a series of TechCentral podcasts this week with executives from iOCO, the systems integrator in the…
Interview: People, and why they're the weakest link in information security [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Brenton Swanepoel, head of the technical team at Obscure Technologies South Africa, about why humans remain the weakest link in the information security chain and what can be done about it. The discussion kicks off with a look at some of…
It's time to get SASE - A new security model, unpacked by Dimension Data and Cisco [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to executives from Dimension Data and Cisco about the exciting new area of information security called SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge. Pronounced "sassy" and coined by research firm Gartner, SASE is a big focus for both Cisco and its partner Dimension…
Interview: Ukheshe CEO Clayton Hayward on the Oltio acquisition
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral's Duncan McLeod interviews Clayton Hayward, CEO of fintech platform provider Ukheshe Technologies, about its acquisition from Mastercard of Oltio. The deal, announced late last year, sees Ukheshe buying a company that developed the digital payments platform that supports Masterpass, Mastercard's QR payment service…
Don't ignore cloud backup: Keepit CEO Frederik Schouboe explains why [promoted]
As companies move IT from on-premises environments into the cloud, many assume it is sufficient to allow their cloud vendor to manage their backups for them. This is absolutely not the case, according to Keepit co-founder and CEO Frederik Schouboe, who explains in this episode of the TechCentral podcast why…
Your company is sitting on a data gold mine: Microsoft's JK Kanis
Businesses are sitting on a gold mine in the vast quantities of data in their organisations, yet most are not yet taking full advantage of the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud technologies to turn these data repositories into real value. In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral…
Welcome to the brave new world of 'everything as a service' [promoted]
The concept of "everything as a service", or XaaS, is rapidly gaining favour among companies as they look to control IT costs and improve efficiencies in a post-pandemic world. In this episode of the podcast - the second in a series of two with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Aptronics -…
Choosing the right cloud platform - insights from HPE and Aptronics [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, Rachel Cooke, GreenLake country lead at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Mark Wayne, pre-sales strategic consultant at Aptronics, unpack the challenges around choosing the right cloud platform. Cooke kicks off the conversation with a view on how Covid-19 has accelerated cloud discussions in enterprises…
Mimecast’s Brian Pinnock on the Popi Act and what happens next [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Mimecast director of sales engineering for the Middle East & Africa Brian Pinnock about what companies should know – and be doing – about the Protection of Personal Information (Popi) Act and Europe’s GDPR rules. How seriously should companies be taking…
Cloud computing: A guide for smaller businesses [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral delves into what smaller enterprises need to know about cloud computing, with ESET cybersecurity specialist Gabriel le Roux. In the podcast, Le Roux explains that, with the advent of broadband Internet access, small businesses can -- but often aren't -- taking advantage of…