South African enterprises are looking to build terminal emulation into their mission-critical legacy environments. This development makes the security challenges of these enterprises a lead concern. Gerald Meyer, Business Development Manager at Axiz, says Rocket Terminal Emulator’s robust security features are eliminating those concerns within South Africa’s financial, health and vehicle rental enterprises. “Many critical [...]

As organisations enter a third year of remote and hybrid work models, they need to invest more in key basic cyber security solutions and practices to stay ahead of ever-changing cyber threats. This is according to Willem Coetzee, CEO of Remoteq, an Axiz partner for security services and solutions within the Axiz Advanced Security Practice. [...]

The pandemic and move to remote work over the past two years has driven acceptance of virtual meetings, paving the way for organisations to do more business with international companies without incurring travel expenses. This is according to Erick Simango, Business Unit Manager at Axiz, who says there has been massive worldwide adoption of video collaboration [...]

South African enterprises are grappling with management and cost control as their IT infrastructures grow increasingly complex and costly. This is according to Camish Dookie, pre-sales engineer for Micro Focus at Axiz, who says the pandemic fast-tracked the move to hybrid cloud and made IT estates increasingly difficult to manage. “Many medium to large enterprises [...]

Operational technologies may enhance efficiencies, but the downside of increasing IOT deployments in field networks is that OT/IOT are increasingly at risk of ransomware and other cyber attacks. This is according to Tumi Masobe, Business Development Manager at Nozomi Networks distributor Axiz, who says ransomware attacks can not only cost companies money and lose business, [...]

Who is responsible for acquiring new business in your company? Who takes care of customers after they have purchased goods or services from you? Even though customers make up the core of every organisation, astoundingly few businesses offer some form of integrated customer experience. Most technology channel companies still operate with a transactional approach: Sell [...]

The demand for using SME channel providers is unprecedented. Recognising that small, micro and medium businesses are key drivers for growth, various sectors emphasise using SME providers. For example, public sector procurement guidelines expect that at least 30% of available opportunities reach SMEs. Many technology vendors are ardent supporters of this pipeline and run various [...]

New features and integrations in Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 have made it easier than ever to enjoy safe remote end-of-year parties, collaborate conveniently and get work done faster. So says Charity Mtshali, Microsoft product manager at Axiz, who believes the updated Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 are gifts that keep on giving in terms [...]

Cyber resilience has become critical for organisations across South Africa and around the world, and emerging trends point to organisations investing in achieving resilience as a top priority in the year ahead. This is according to Tumi Masobe, Business Development Manager at Keysight distributor Axiz, who says several key cyber resilience and cyber security trends [...]

The Ducati Motor Holding company is using a Lenovo High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure to innovate faster and make the design process almost as fast as their motorcycles, illustrating that speed and compute power are crucial for competitiveness in any sector. Ducati’s urbane sporting director, Paulo Ciabatti, says: "It’s a partnership not only about displaying [...]