Leveraging the Economics and Sustainability of Cloud in the Digital Era
Keoikantse Marungwana
Senior Research & Consulting Manager, IDC
Victor Thobakgale
Executive Technology Operations Lead, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM)
Neda Smith
Divisional Director: IT, City Lodge Hotel Group
Pfarelo Masithulela
Senior Manager: Storage & Data Protection Platforms, Multichoice Group
Luyanda Ntuane
CIO, MOTUS Car Rental Division, MOTUS Car Rental Division
Thabiso Hlatshwayo
Senior Solution Consulting Manager, OpenText Africa
Ian Jansen van Rensburg
Chief Technologist and SE Director, VMware
Jaap Scholten
Head of Group Hybrid IT Strategy at Datacentrix and Chief Operations Officer at eNetworks
Jonathan Tullett
Associate Research Director, IT Services Sub-Saharan Africa, IDC
OpenText
Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is a global technology company providing hardware, software, and services to businesses and consumers. The company offers a range of products, including personal computers, servers, storage devices, networking equipment, software, and cloud computing services. Dell Technologies is committed to innovation and helping customers and partners drive their digital transformation journeys.
Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.
Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$70 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #171 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 82,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into key growth areas including server, storage, mobile, solutions and services. This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere.
To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com,and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.
Micro Focus
Micro Focus brings critical technologies to OpenText, including new categories of AI & Analytics, Application Development & Delivery, Application Modernization, and Digital Operations Management. They greatly complement OpenText’s proven market leadership in Content Services, Business Network, Digital Experience and Cyber Security. With our combined capabilities, we will help customers gain an information advantage and accelerate their digital transformation.
The newly combined company will focus on future business growth that is inclusive, sustainable, and human centric. We can accelerate how we solve complexities by bringing information and automation together so businesses of all sizes can be re-invented through new digital fabrics, new rules, and new ways to work.
The world’s most trusted companies trust OpenText, and our expertise is in helping people work smarter. OpenText powers and protects information to elevate every person and every organization to be their best.
Commvault
In today’s digital economy, data is your competitive advantage. It predicts customer behavior, guides operational efficiency, and drives corporate strategy. It’s the crown jewel that must be protected, yet always accessible.
The trouble is, your data grows, morphs, and fragments – digital bits and bytes in a constant state of movement and evolution. How you manage your data has everything to do with the degree to which you succeed.
That’s where Commvault comes in. We help you do amazing things with your data. Our Intelligent Data Services can help you drive greater efficiency by transforming how you protect, store, and use data – regardless of where it lives or how it’s structured. One solution. One experience. Endless possibilities.
Be ready when disaster strikes. Ready when cybercriminals take their best shot. Ready to capitalize when opportunities arise.
Commvault. Be ready.
ICITP
The Institute of Chartered IT Professionals (ICITP), recognized by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) according to the NQF Act of 2008, is a prestigious non-profit (NPO), public benefit organization (PBO), regulatory & professional body for the Information Technology sector. The professional body is the only body that can award the Chartered IT Professional, CITP(SA) and IT Certified Professional, ITCP(SA), professional status in the ICT sector in South Africa and internationally.
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.