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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...

First Technology Western Cape
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...

First Technology Western Cape
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...

First Technology Western Cape
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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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...

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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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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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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...

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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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IBM just solved this quantum computing problem 120 times faster than previously possible
Using a combination of tweaked algorithms, improved control systems and a new quantum service called Qiskit Runtime, IBM researchers have...

First Technology Western Cape
May 12, 20211 min read
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The Rise or Fall of the Virtual Desktop
Virtual desktop technology is nothing new; some companies have used it for a decade. Yet, after all this time, most people are still...

First Technology Western Cape
Apr 29, 20211 min read
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Securing IoT: A Moving Target
Mozi. Dark Nexus. Mukashi. LeetHozer. Hoaxcalls. These are just a few of the nefarious botnets continuously threatening...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Is your business prepared to recover from a ransomware attack in 2021?
Cyber crime is a multibillion-dollar international industry and is not going away. Ransomware has taken centre stage, with large and...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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How clean is cloud computing? New data reveals how green Google's data centers really are
In an effort to hold itself accountable to its sustainability goals, Google has developed a new publicly-available metric that provides...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 18, 20211 min read
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The world's most powerful supercomputer is now up and running
After seven years in the works, the world's fastest supercomputer has officially been completed in Japan and is now available for...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 10, 20211 min read
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Developing a roadmap for AI adoption
Artificial intelligence (AI) is in its infancy, and in the very early stages of adoption by most businesses. However, business leaders...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 3, 20211 min read
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Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique
Microsoft has published a white paper on Tuesday about a new type of attack technique called a "dependency confusion" or a "substitution...

First Technology Western Cape
Feb 10, 20211 min read
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Microsoft's quantum cloud computing plans take another big step forward
Azure Quantum, the public cloud ecosystem dedicated to quantum applications developed by Microsoft, is now available for public preview....

First Technology Western Cape
Feb 3, 20211 min read
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