by Guy Krige | Jul 20, 2023 | News
When the Risk Manager of RBS arrived at work, he couldn’t have known that at 3pm he would be plunged into the worst nightmare of his career. When a system’s upgrade went wrong, staff tried to return to the original system, which failed. He had a back-up of course, but...
by Guy Krige | Apr 20, 2023 | News
“There is a joke doing the rounds about who was responsible for initiating your digital transformation, the CEO, CIO, CTO or COVID-19?” Today in Futurewave Business IT (23 April 2020) The reality is that suppliers of outsourced IT solutions represent...
by Guy Krige | Aug 29, 2022 | News
The temptation for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to self-insure business-critical software often happens after they’ve had a few bad experiences with escrow service providers that deliver substandard service. CIOs may feel they are best suited to insure their...
by Guy Krige | Aug 23, 2022 | News
A major Microsoft Teams and Azure outage in South Africa was reported in MYBROADBAND in July 2022. Microsoft reported network connectivity issues affected services in South Africa. Customers were warned of latency or intermittent network connectivity issues when...
by Guy Krige | Aug 12, 2022 | News
NEDBANK posted outstanding financial results for the first half of 2022. It attributed much of its success to a massive digital transformation overseen by COO, Mfundo Nkuhlu. However, the risks of digital transformation cannot be ignored, and can cause dire...
