8 benefits of cloud migration & how to migrate
Is your cloud strategy enabled the right way?
If not implemented properly, moving to the cloud can become a costly exercise for any business. Success lies in identifying your key objectives and then utilising and harnessing the offering that best suits your operation. “The first step,” says Joshua Grunewald, Cloud Hosting manager at SAICOM, “is understanding your motivation, where your pain points are, […]
Secure access in COVID times
The differences between Business Fibre and Home Fibre in South Africa
The industrial importance of NB-IoT in South Africa
Channel partner programmes are about more than sales
The channel landscape continually changes as products and services in the ICT sector evolve from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms. Channel partner programmes have changed how organisations engage and collaborate with customers and tech giants like Google, Cisco and VMWare have shifted their channel programmes to drive channel-specific sales strategies only. They understand that channel […]
The Interconnect Rate and its Importance in South Africa’s Telecommunications Market
Saicom Update – COVID19 (26 March 2020)
Dear Customers and Partners, As a cloud-first technology provider, helping our customers and partners take advantage of technology and all its benefits, is core to who we are. Yet today we find ourselves confronting a situation never before experienced in our lifetime. As the COVID–19 pandemic has continued to infiltrate our lives we have been forced to […]
Expansion without sacrifice: Kyle Woolf
Published – CEO Magazine (26 September 2019) Culture is the most important part of any business, says Saicom CEO Kyle Woolf. According to Saicom CEO Kyle Woolf, the key to success in business is hiring well. “You can always add a product, you can always add a solution to your bow, you can find a […]
SD-WAN in the SASE world
CellC halts non-geographic number porting in South Africa
In 2018, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) took steps to enable the porting of non-geographic (i.e. 0800, 0860, 0861, 0862 and 087). But it did not take long for embattled operator Cell C to launch an application in the High Court to stop this from happening. And while this is pending and […]
HCI and SDx – the evolution of business and the data centre
Storage and networking vendors see software defined everything (SDx) as the next evolution of linking the business to the data centre. Today, it is less about the hardware and more on how it can be ‘cloudified’ to unlock more opportunities. Of course, hardware is not going away. Vendors still need to put equipment down, but […]