While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented levels of disruption to the region, it has also shone a light on the critical role of digital transformation (DX) in ensuring business continuity. Indeed, DX-savvy organizations are experiencing the least disruption as they were far better prepared to face the challenges that lay in wait.
As the situation continues to evolve, more and more enterprises will look to rethink their business continuity strategies, with an eye on stabilizing their critical infrastructure and improving their response to unforeseen events. Online collaboration tools, cloud-based platforms, and secure remote access will all be central to this process, as will improvements in infrastructure resiliency and disaster recovery.
Agility is key, and IT leaders must now look to adjust to the new—and constantly evolving—requirements of an increasingly remote workforce. The challenges posed by COVID-19 will drive long-lasting changes in the way businesses operate; as such, business continuity must now be viewed as the top digital transformation priority for any organization looking to survive and thrive in this new reality.
Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, South Africa, IDC
Steven Frantzen
Senior Vice President (EMEA) & Managing Director (CEMA), IDC
Brian Pinnock
Director: Sales Engineering, Mimecast
Neil Cosser
Country Manager – CPL – Africa, Thales
Colin Erasmus
Modern Workplace Business Group Lead, Microsoft
Kabelo Makwane
Managing Executive for the Cloud, Hosting and Security, Vodacom Business
Lee James
Chief Technology Officer (EMEA), Rackspace Technology
Danie Thom
Cloud Platform Specialist, Red Hat
Dr. Joseph Sevilla
Director ICT, @iLabAfrica, Strathmore University
Prasanna Burri
Group CIO, Dangote Group
Mimecast
Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first and tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure.
StarLink & Thales
We are the worldwide leader in data protection, providing everything an organization needs to protect and manage its data, identities and intellectual property – through encryption, advanced key management, tokenization, and authentication and access management. Whether it’s securing the cloud, digital payments, blockchain or the Internet of Things, security professionals around the globe rely on Thales to confidently accelerate their organization’s digital transformation. Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing is part of Thales Group.
StarLink is acclaimed as the fastest growing “True” Value-added Distributor” across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa regions with on-the-ground presence in 20 countries including UK and USA. With its innovate Security Framework, StarLink is recognized as a "Trusted Cyber and Cloud Advisor” to over 3500 enterprise and government customers that use one or more of StarLink’s best-of-breed and market-leading technologies, sold through its channel network of over 1500 partners. The StarLink Solution Lifecycle helps channel partners differentiate offerings, and assists customers to identify key risks and define priorities for addressing their IT security gaps and enhance their data center and cloud infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.starlinkme.net
Microsoft
Vodacom Business
Vodacom Business was founded in 2008 as the enterprise arm of Vodacom Group, a leading African communications company providing a wide range of communication services, including mobile voice, messaging, data, financial and converged services.
Our products and services, Vodacom Business delivers converged (instead of total or unified) communication solutions to meet the needs of the public sector, large, medium and small enterprises.
Vodacom Business offers solutions that extend from mobile to fixed line access, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Voice over IP (VoIP), hosted facilities, cloud computing based hosted services, storage, back up, security and application solutions.
Performance and impact, we have expanded our service proposition in the cloud and hosting space, building on our extensive fixed and mobile infrastructure, pan-African footprint, investment in data centre infrastructure, and our collaboration with global partners such as IBM and SAP HANA.
In terms of managed and professional services, we are well positioned to develop a meaningful market presence, leveraging off our existing strong client base. We are exploring opportunities to develop sector-specific propositions that differentiate us from our peers, across a range of sectors, including retail, health, agriculture, education, industrial and transportation. To drive enterprise growth going forward, we are focusing on three principal investment areas: building market leadership in IoT; realising growth opportunities for digitalisation in the SME sector; and scaling converged services through our targeted investment in fibre, fixed wireless capillarity and next generation networks. For more information, visit http://vodacom.co.za/business
Rackspace Technology
Redhat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source
software solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises,
partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant,
innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare
customers for the future of IT.
You can learn more about Red Hat by
visiting www.redhat.com.
First Technology
Nexio
Webinar
Thursday, July 23, 2020
11:00 AM
Language
English
Registration Fee
Free of Charge : For End Users (not IT + Consultant companies)
Contact
For More Information, contact: Ryan Matthews - Conference Director (South Africa)
Mobile: +27 79 9399705 | Email: rmatthews@idc.com
56 Years | 1300 Analysts | 110 Countries
International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,300 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC's analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com.