Matthew O’Neill, Financial Services Industry Managing Director, Office of the CTO, VMware It doesn’t matter what bank or financial institution they work for, there’s one thing that I guarantee keeps all CIOs awake at night – Cyber Security. To be fair, security in the digital era is probably the number one topic across all sectors. […]
The digital transformation of networking is revolutionizing the way enterprises conduct business. Companies everywhere are capitalizing on a variety of cloud-based applications—from voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) calling to video streaming—to boost productivity, reach new markets and simplify Internal operations. As more businesses update their legacy infrastructures, many are leveraging software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) […]
IT threats are rapidly building in volume, scale and sophistication and current strategies are clearly not working. Business leaders have to understand the needs of their IT and security teams, just as those teams have to understand the goals and priorities of the wider business for both to be successful. Our research with […]
ACS, a division of Altron and a provider of electronic transaction solutions to companies across Africa, has implemented a disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) solution with VMware vCloud Availability to improve its DR capabilities and better serve customers across the continent. The company was supported by local Cloud Service Provider (CSP) on the VMware Cloud Provider Programme, […]
This year we saw City Power in Johannesburg fall victim to a ransomware attack that not only crippled its Web site, but left consumers unable to buy pre-paid electricity. Sadly, this is just one example where local organisations are increasingly being targeted by malicious entities. Further afield, in the US alone, more than 20 public-sector […]
How software can be used to separate development, test and production environments? In doing so save up to 50% of infrastructure costs. Joe Baguley, VP & CTO EMEA, VMware Security has always been a must have, in fact a necessity for business and indeed civilisation itself. No fortified castle, no community. No alarm, no jewels. […]
Smart cities are emerging today, with driverless public transport, contactless payments, virtual personal assistants, smart rubbish collection and smart parking being trialled or used across the globe. Soon these will be joined by driverless cars, IoT-enabled homes that can detect when there is a need for repairs, and AI-enabled traffic control. All of these exciting […]