The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) is causing much angst within IT departments. This is due to the fact that any infrastructure that holds personal information needs to be secure at all times. Failure to achieve POPI compliance may result in...
Software spend contributes a significant chunk to the IT budget and to a large degree many organisations view this as a sunk cost and part of the plumbing. Smart organisations however are starting to question this spend as austerity measures become the norm and...
After recently attending and presenting a paper at a conference around Green IT, it became overwhelmingly clear that all speakers were providing the same message and that the message by most delegates, was probably going to be ignored. I do think delegates were...
Cost reductions and automation are high on the agenda of many IT executives who are seeking to do more with ever diminishing IT budgets. Having been involved in IT service delivery, in particular IT outsourcing for much of my early career, I came up against the ‘cost...
In South Africa we operate within the constraints of an energy grid that is under extreme load with very little reserve margin and with the delays of the Medupi power station (expected to be on line H1 2014), Eskom is placing significant emphasis on what it calls...
Corporate PC Power management solutions are the norm in many of the largest organisations on the planet, including one or two in South Africa. Wallmart, ABSA, Boeing, AT&T and Citbank would be to name but a few. It is still staggering however, how many large...
