Cyber Resilience: Why You Can’t Afford to Be Unprepared in the Face of Ransomware
In today’s digital world, cyber resilience is no longer optional. With ransomware attacks growing more sophisticated by the day, the question isn’t if your business will be targeted, but when. The rise of next-gen cyber threats is pushing companies to rethink their security strategies. But here’s the harsh reality — relying on outdated defenses simply […]
How SMEs Can Manage Data Needs As They Grow
Data is a vital part of competitive businesses. Smaller organisations shouldn’t wait until they are bigger before making plans for data growth. Tips to better manage data growth: Catalogue your data Choose suitable storage Think about backups Train staff to use data Find a good data partner Small and medium businesses share several commonalities with […]
How To Ensure Your Service Level Agreements Perform To Expectation
Avoid the watermelon effect with the four elements of a good SLA. “A good SLA is not about handing something off but bringing somebody in who pays attention.” There is an old joke about a hot-air balloon pilot getting lost and landing in a field to get their bearings. They see someone nearby and ask […]
SSD? NVME? Making Sense of Flash Storage
There is a revolution happening in the storage space. Knowing your way around flash storage will improve your business technology performance and deliver more value. “If you use flash storage in the wrong situations, it can cost you more in the long run.” “When you keep running into performance bottlenecks, it’s time to upgrade.” Solid […]
Tips to plan your hybrid cloud migration
Hybrid cloud is the next generation of computing power. How do you ensure your business gains its benefits? “Hybrid cloud is very powerful and can deliver fantastic long term value and strategic control.” Why should your organisation start using cloud services and infrastructure? Why is hybrid cloud the preferred model to use? And […]
Is your data storage causing analytics bottlenecks?
Better business intelligence is one of the digital era’s opportunities we want to harness. Historical data can reveal trends, machine data can help improve planning and costs, and customer data can generate leads and reduce churn. Executives and managers can access digital analytics through dashboards, even if they don’t have any data skills. Digital analytics […]
Tackling cloud migration’s biggest challenges
Your organisation already relies on cloud services: if you use Office365, Google Workspace, Slack, SalesForce, LinkedIn. Click Up, Calendly or any of the many thousands of online business services and apps, you are using the cloud. And there are even bigger opportunities to get more from today’s digital technologies. Organisations rely on servers to manage […]
Four trends that will influence data in 2024
The data era is in full swing, yet it’s only getting started. Every year brings new developments to the data space. In 2023, AI and cybercrime raised data’s profile and spread the importance of managing this crucial asset. What can we anticipate from the data market next year? Sithabile Technology Services, a data and cloud […]
The Secret Behind Successful Cloud Migration? Planning and Partners
Moving to the cloud is inevitable. The right partner and plan make it achievable. Modern businesses know it’s worthwhile migrating to cloud technologies. The benefits are clear, and they grow over time. Yet many companies still have not made the change, and for good reason. Cloud migration can create many new risks. None of these […]
What is data encryption?
A quick primer into the technology that forms the bedrock of data security. Keeping information from unauthorised eyes is a practice as old as recording information. Regents would add their seal into wax to stop snoops from reading orders. Warring nations spend great expense and effort to break the codes of their opponents. And in […]