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Use the Cyber Kill Chain Model to Spot and Stop Hackers
Understanding the cyber kill chain model can help you keep your organization more secure. In the military, a kill chain refers to a...

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Sep 8, 20211 min read
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Trending Tech to Watch: What Is Hybrid IT?
You’ve heard of hybrid cloud, but what about hybrid IT? The latter term is becoming more buzzworthy as businesses realize that they can’t...

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Aug 18, 20211 min read
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5 Reasons Cloud Repatriation Should Be Part of Digital Transformation
Cloud repatriation may be the next stop on the digital transformation journey. If you were charting a digital transformation strategy...

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Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Cloud security in 2021: A business guide to essential tools and best practices
Cloud computing services have become a vital tool for most businesses. It's a trend that has accelerated recently, with cloud-based...

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Jul 28, 20211 min read
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Director’s View
Welcome to our fourth edition for 2021. In writing this newsletter, it would have been easy to dwell on the huge upheavals South Africa...

First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20213 min read
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Record-Breaking Chinese Supercomputer Marks New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
We've got another quantum computing milestone to report, with researchers in China unveiling a super-advanced 66-qubit quantum...

First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20211 min read
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Cyber threats on the rise in these industries in South Africa
Increasingly, companies are looking to adopt smart technologies to optimise production and decision-making in order to create businesses...

First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20212 min read
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What is hyperconvergence, or HCI, or dHCI today? Why it’s all worth knowing
What is hyperconvergence? Of the multitude of definitions of hyperconvergence that have been tossed around by vendors over the past...

First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20212 min read
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Is Liquid Cooling a Cure for the Moore’s Law Breakdown?
A Microsoft project touted its recent re-investment in immersive cooling technologies as not just a way to overcome the derailment of...

First Technology Western Cape
Jul 28, 20211 min read
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The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components
From face masks to hand sanitizer and onto vaccine passports: almost all of the products that have been in high demand during the past...

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Jul 28, 20211 min read
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Microsoft Pledges to Emit ‘Zero Carbon’ By 2030
Microsoft has made another big climate pledge. The company said Wednesday that it will work to power all its offices and data centers...

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Jul 21, 20212 min read
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New Strategic Platinum Partner
We are proud to welcome Darktrace into the First Technology family! We are thrilled to announce that Darktrace has joined forces with...

First Technology Western Cape
Jun 21, 20211 min read
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Award Announcement
It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce that First Technology has been awarded with the ‘Sophos Partner of the Year 2021...

First Technology Western Cape
Jun 15, 20211 min read
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The Journey To The Cloud. Modernising Data Infrastructure
A promise made is not always a promise kept. That’s the unfortunate reality of our industry - claims of seamless service delivery are...

First Technology Western Cape
Jun 9, 20211 min read
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Intel CEO reiterates warning that global chip shortage could last years
Intel Corp.’s CEO reiterated on Monday that the global shortage of semiconductors could take a few years to resolve. The shortage, which...

First Technology Western Cape
Jun 2, 20211 min read
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DIRECTORS VIEW
Welcome to our third edition for 2021. Whilst researching content for this eZine, the original focus was on the subject of Ransomware and...

First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20213 min read
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Dell Technologies unveils Apex as-a-service portfolio as new business model flagship
Dell Technologies has announced Apex, a portfolio of as-a-service offerings that marks the first major announcement on the new direction...

First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20211 min read
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Cloud investment: Entering a new phase in Africa
Increased agility remains the key driver. But remote working and data protection now play a notable role in adoption. In the pre-pandemic...

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May 26, 20212 min read
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Quantum computing: Intel's cryogenic chip shows it can control qubits even in a deep freeze
Intel's quantum computing efforts are starting to show tangible results: two years after the company first unveiled its Horse Ridge...

First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20211 min read
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Ransomware just got very real. And it's likely to get worse
There's just been another ransomware attack, but this one could have more significant consequences than the many that have come before....

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May 26, 20211 min read
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