Cloud security in 2021: A business guide to essential tools and best practices
Cloud computing services have become a vital tool for most businesses. It's a trend that has accelerated recently, with cloud-based...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Director’s View
Welcome to our fourth edition for 2021. In writing this newsletter, it would have been easy to dwell on the huge upheavals South Africa...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20211 min read
Record-Breaking Chinese Supercomputer Marks New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
We've got another quantum computing milestone to report, with researchers in China unveiling a super-advanced 66-qubit quantum...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20212 min read
Cyber threats on the rise in these industries in South Africa
Increasingly, companies are looking to adopt smart technologies to optimise production and decision-making in order to create businesses...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20212 min read
What is hyperconvergence, or HCI, or dHCI today? Why it’s all worth knowing
What is hyperconvergence? Of the multitude of definitions of hyperconvergence that have been tossed around by vendors over the past...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20211 min read
Is Liquid Cooling a Cure for the Moore’s Law Breakdown?
A Microsoft project touted its recent re-investment in immersive cooling technologies as not just a way to overcome the derailment of...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20211 min read
The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components
From face masks to hand sanitizer and onto vaccine passports: almost all of the products that have been in high demand during the past...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 21, 20212 min read
Microsoft Pledges to Emit ‘Zero Carbon’ By 2030
Microsoft has made another big climate pledge. The company said Wednesday that it will work to power all its offices and data centers...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jun 21, 20211 min read
New Strategic Platinum Partner
We are proud to welcome Darktrace into the First Technology family! We are thrilled to announce that Darktrace has joined forces with...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jun 15, 20211 min read
Award Announcement
It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce that First Technology has been awarded with the ‘Sophos Partner of the Year 2021...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jun 9, 20211 min read
The Journey To The Cloud. Modernising Data Infrastructure
A promise made is not always a promise kept. That’s the unfortunate reality of our industry - claims of seamless service delivery are...
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First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20213 min read
DIRECTORS VIEW
Welcome to our third edition for 2021. Whilst researching content for this eZine, the original focus was on the subject of Ransomware and...
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First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20211 min read
Dell Technologies unveils Apex as-a-service portfolio as new business model flagship
Dell Technologies has announced Apex, a portfolio of as-a-service offerings that marks the first major announcement on the new direction...
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First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20212 min read
Cloud investment: Entering a new phase in Africa
Increased agility remains the key driver. But remote working and data protection now play a notable role in adoption. In the pre-pandemic...
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First Technology Western Cape
May 12, 20211 min read
IBM just solved this quantum computing problem 120 times faster than previously possible
Using a combination of tweaked algorithms, improved control systems and a new quantum service called Qiskit Runtime, IBM researchers have...
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First Technology Western Cape
Apr 29, 20211 min read
The Rise or Fall of the Virtual Desktop
Virtual desktop technology is nothing new; some companies have used it for a decade. Yet, after all this time, most people are still...
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First Technology Western Cape
Apr 6, 20215 min read
Director’s View
For the purpose of this edition, we thought it would be interesting to look at the trends that will define 2021 and possibly beyond.
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First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Securing IoT: A Moving Target
Mozi. Dark Nexus. Mukashi. LeetHozer. Hoaxcalls. These are just a few of the nefarious botnets continuously threatening...
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First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Quantum computing: How basic broadband fiber could pave the way to the next breakthrough
The usefulness of most quantum computers is still significantly limited by the low number of qubits that hardware can support. But simple...
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First Technology Western Cape
Mar 24, 20211 min read
Change brings possibility: A new era of sustainable digital transformation
A new report paints an upbeat picture of the good that has come out of the pandemic, including digital preparedness, agility and...
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