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First Technology Western Cape
Sep 8, 20211 min read
Use the Cyber Kill Chain Model to Spot and Stop Hackers
Understanding the cyber kill chain model can help you keep your organization more secure. In the military, a kill chain refers to a...
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First Technology Western Cape
Aug 18, 20211 min read
Trending Tech to Watch: What Is Hybrid IT?
You’ve heard of hybrid cloud, but what about hybrid IT? The latter term is becoming more buzzworthy as businesses realize that they can’t...
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First Technology Western Cape
Aug 11, 20211 min read
5 Reasons Cloud Repatriation Should Be Part of Digital Transformation
Cloud repatriation may be the next stop on the digital transformation journey. If you were charting a digital transformation strategy...
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First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20211 min read
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
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
Jun 2, 20211 min read
Intel CEO reiterates warning that global chip shortage could last years
Intel Corp.’s CEO reiterated on Monday that the global shortage of semiconductors could take a few years to resolve. The shortage, which...
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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 26, 20211 min read
Quantum computing: Intel's cryogenic chip shows it can control qubits even in a deep freeze
Intel's quantum computing efforts are starting to show tangible results: two years after the company first unveiled its Horse Ridge...
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First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20211 min read
Ransomware just got very real. And it's likely to get worse
There's just been another ransomware attack, but this one could have more significant consequences than the many that have come before....
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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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