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Brian Bakker

Changing perceptions of business continuity

From being a grudge purchase, business continuity solutions are beginning to be seen as business improvement opportunities.

Technology to enable telecommuting

The Brainstorm enterprise mobility roundtable tries to establish if industry can offer sage advice for local businesses grappling with the issue.

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Brian Bakker

Let’s talk about big data

Big data is like teenage sex. Everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they’re doing it.

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Brian Bakker

Complexities of securing BYOD

The ICT industry has long been an environment in which the merits of different technologies are robustly debated. But as cloud takes hold, that’s changing.

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Brian Bakker

What the customer wants

The ICT industry has long been an environment in which the merits of different technologies are robustly debated. But as cloud takes hold, that’s changing.

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Brian Bakker

Winds of change

The BYOD (bring your own device) trend has become reality in business and now companies, large and small, are struggling with the implications.

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Brian Bakker

Seeking a regulatory nirvana

The field of telecoms affects most aspects of modern life but, when South Africans discuss it, the conversation always turns to price.

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Brian Bakker

Maximising the use of technology

These days, it seems like everybody is putting down fibre, but South Africa is still a long way from a competitive market for fibre connectivity.

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Brian Bakker

BI in the SME sector

Primarily due to cost, business intelligence has always been seen as a technology for large corporates – but that may be changing.

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Brian Bakker

Where big data ends and BI begins

Business Intelligence is not a new idea but the term ‘big data’ may confuse things.

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Brian Bakker

Onward to the ubiquitous cloud

Not unusually for the ICT industry, the hype around cloud has thus far failed to live up to expectations.

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Constricting the growth of cloud

Recent research indicates that complexity inherent in existing systems is inhibiting widespread cloud adoption.

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Brian Bakker

Scratching below the hyperbole

Cloud computing is presented as the nirvana of ICT, offering an optimum cost-benefit equation. But is this really the case?

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Brian Bakker