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Interview: Gustav Praekelt on using WhatsApp to fight Covid-19
Gustav Praekelt, founder of the Praekelt Foundation, the non-profit behind the department of health's wildly successful Covid-19 WhatsApp platform, joins the podcast to talk about the service, and how it ratcheted up more than two million users in short order. Praekelt, a technologist at heart, explains what is involved in…
Interview: SUSE's Grant Bennett how SA enterprises are embracing the cloud
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by SUSE country manager Grant Bennett for a discussion on cloud computing in South African enterprises. The discussion follows a recent TechCentral and SUSE-sponsored roundtable event, where corporate IT leaders spoke about the issues around cloud that are exercising their…
Interview: SUSE country manager Grant Bennett on IoT
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to SUSE country manager Grant Bennett about the growing interest in and adoption by enterprises in South Africa of Internet of things (IoT) technologies. The discussion, flowing from a recent roundtable with IT leaders in South Africa, begins with a discussion…
Interview: MortgageMarket founder and CEO Tim Akinnusi
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Tim Akinnusi, founder and CEO of MortgageMarket.co.za, about how the fintech start-up hopes to make it easier – and more financially rewarding – to secure a home loan. In the podcast, Akinnusi -- a former MD of Absa Home Loans…
Interview: Sanofi seeks SA healthtech start-ups for Afric@Tech Challenge
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Thibault Crosnier Leconte, country chairman and GM at French pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi, about the company’s initiative to identify and support healthtech start-ups and entrepreneurs. Sanofi is calling for South African entries to the Afric@Tech Challenge, part of the Viva Technology…
Interview: Mmapula Kgari on the Sentech Connect broadband project
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral interviews Sentech chief of sales and marketing Mmapula Kgari about the company's new Sentech Connect broadband project. The idea behind Sentech Connect is for the state-owned communications company to "play a significant role in the implementation of SA Connect’s mandate and servicing…
Interview: Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo about the data centre operator's massive expansion of its Johannesburg data centre campus. In the podcast, Hnizdo talks about how Teraco has rapidly expanded since its founding in Cape Town 12 years ago, how continued demand, especially…
Interview: iTMaster CEO Stanton Pillay
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined for a discussion by Stanton Pillay, the recently appointed CEO of iTMaster, a national information management consultancy and technology solutions company. Pillay tells TechCentral about the history of the company – it was founded by three women in Polokwane –…
Interview: .ZADNA acting CEO Peter Madavhu
In this promoted episode of the podcast, .ZADNA acting CEO Peter Madavhu joins TechCentral for a discussion on the role of the regulatory agency in South Africa's Internet domain space. In the discussion, Madavhu provides an overview of the .za namespace and what is involved in regulating it. .ZADNA is…
Interview: Axiz's Traci Maynard on incentives in the channel
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral talks to Axiz executive Traci Maynard about the importance - and upsides and risks - of using incentives in the IT distribution channel. Maynard explains why vendors use incentives for their distribution and reseller partners, the impact these incentives have on the…
Interview: Highpeak MD Gavin Hill on the tech behind Vumacam's CCTV network
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Gavin Hill, MD of Highpeak Technology Services, about the work his company has done to build the IT system that helps power Vumacam's CCTV network throughout Johannesburg. The system, built with the support of Tarsus On Demand and Microsoft, delivers…
Interview: Dimension Data Security managing executive Tony Walt
Dimension Data Middle East & Africa on Wednesday announced it has launched a significant new practice, known as Dimension Data Security, that will sit alongside its existing businesses Internet Solutions, Dimension Data Systems Integration, Britehouse and Merchants. The new business is headed by Dimension Data veteran Tony Walt -- a…
Interview: Axiz executive Traci Maynard on IT sector growth
In this promoted episode of the podcast, Axiz executive Traci Maynard returns for a discussion on recent research by Gartner that was surprisingly upbeat on growth prospects for the IT sector in South Africa. Gartner said IT spending in the country will total R303.5-billion in 2019, growth of 3.9% in…
Interview: Cathy Smith on repairing SAP Africa after 'kickbacks' scandal
Following the explosive reports in 2017 that SAP Africa allegedly paid kickbacks to Gupta family-owned companies to secure contracts at state-owned enterprises, MD Cathy Smith has said the organisation is on the mend.
Interview: Nutanix speaks out on cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by Nutanix vice president for customer success Pai Venugopal and regional sales director Paul Ruinaard for a discussion on hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, and its importance in enterprise cloud computing. In the podcast, Venugopal talks about the Nasdaq-listed company’s focus,…
Interview: Axiz executive Traci Maynard on ethical leadership
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Traci Maynard, an executive at technology distributor Axiz, about the important of ethical leadership and good corporate governance in South Africa’s IT industry. In light of the various scandals that have erupted around several high-profile companies in the past 18-24 months,…
Interview: Seacom head of digital and CX Kevin South
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by Seacom’s head of digital and customer experience, Kevin South, for a discussion on digital transformation and how companies should be approaching such projects. South talks about the conversations that companies should be having before they even embark on the…
Interview: Veritas regional director David McMurdo
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to David McMurdo, regional director for South Africa at Veritas Technologies, about the explosion of data and how companies can get control over it. McMurdo opens the podcast with a discussion about Veritas’s history and its go-to-market strategy in South Africa,…
Interview: Seacom’s Mark Tinka on why Africa is falling behind on IPv6
In this promoted episode of the TechCentral podcast, Seacom head of engineering Mark Tinka explains why how South Africa – and the broader African continent – is falling behind the rest of the world in implementing Internet protocol version 6, or IPv6, and why this is potentially a very serious…
Interview: BBD on how digital disruption is upending financial services
In this episode of the podcast, BBD UK director and the group’s executive head of banking, Matthew Barnard, and BBD executive head of cloud services, Dieter Rosch, discuss the fundamental digital disruption sweeping through banking and financial services. South African banks spend a huge amount of money on IT every…