Channelwise

05/12/2025

The latest issue of Channelwise is out, featuring a feast of relevant and up-to-the-minute content plus all the results from the 2025 Channelwise Awards.
https://view.publitas.com/futurewave-1/the-channel-has-spoken/page/1

05/12/2025

The channel has spoken - Pinnacle has been voted by reseller partners as the 2025 Channelwise Distributor of the Year.
Pinnacle Axiz Syntech Mustek First Distribution Linkqage

In a close-run race, Pinnacle has crossed the finish line first to win the coveted Channelwise Distributor of the Year 2025 award. Hot on its heels was second-placed Mustek, followed by close contenders Axiz, Rectron and Syntech Distribution. Rounding out the top 10 were Tarsus Distribution, TVR, Fi...

05/12/2025

Syntech Distribution has been selected by partners as the distributor with the best service, winning the 2025 Channelwise Customer Care Distributor award for the fourth time.
Pinnacle Axiz Syntech Mustek First Distribution Linkqage Miró TVR Distribution DCC Technologies Tarsus Distribution

Syntech Distribution has cemented its position as South Africa’s favourite distributor when it comes to caring for its reseller partners. For an impressive fourth time, Syntech has scooped the Customer Care Distributor of the Year award by a comfortable margin. The second place went to LinkQage, f...

05/12/2025

The votes are in, and South African resellers have named their favourite vendors for 2025.

The votes are in, and South African resellers have named their favourite vendors for 2025. The 13th annual Channelwise Awards survey attracted a record 2 828 voters, who named their favourite vendors in 10 categories, as follows:   Infrastructure Hardware Servers: Dell (winner), Lenovo, HPE Storage...

13/11/2025

Africa Tech Festival, together with a host of sideline events, wraps up today in Cape Town.
Africa Tech Festival

Cape Town hosted the 2025 Africa Tech Festival this week. Kathy Gibson attended to find out what the continent can look forward to in the coming months.   AI key for Africa to unlock youth dividend By 2030, more young Africans will enter the workplace than the rest of the world combined – and it....

05/11/2025

Recognising the importance of developing next-generation data centres to drive digitalisation and improve its economies, the Data Centre Associations of Europe are working together to keep the continent competitive in the global market.
https://it-online.co.za/2025/11/04/europe-stands-united-in-data-centre-race/
Vertiv

Kathy Gibson reports from Tognana, Italy – Europe is standing as one in the development of a globally competitive data centre industry. At a meeting of Data Centre Associations hosted by Vertiv, industry leaders came together to identify common issues and areas of collaboration. Recognising that d...

29/10/2025

In a constrained market, where consumers face massive financial stresses, gambling is taking its toll as South Africans bet more of their income – and experience significantly higher default levels.
A study by Experian and Vault22 uncovers the stark realities.
Experian South Africa Vault22

Kathy Gibson reports – Online gambling, a very topical and sensitive subject at the moment, is having a negative impact on consumers. A new study by Experian and Vault22, using reliable and representative data, concludes the gambling is a challenge for South African consumers, and is one of the fa...

19/09/2025

Nvidia is investing $5-billion in Intel stock as the two companies sign a deal to jointly develop multiple generations of custom datacentre and PC products to accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.
Intel NVIDIA

Nvidia and Intel have announced a collaboration to jointly develop multiple generations of custom datacentre and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets. The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting Nvidia and Intel architectures...

12/09/2025

South Africa’s online retail market is on track to hit R130-billion this year – and will soon account for 10% of all retail sales.
This is according to Arthur Goldstuck, presenting the Online Retail in South Africa 2025 study by World Wide Worx, with Mastercard, Peach Payments and AskAfrica.
Arthur Goldstuck, Author and Speaker World Wide Worx Mastercard

Kathy Gibson reports – Online retail is set to account for 10% of all retail spend in South Africa within just a few months, reaching a value of R130-billion by the end of this year. Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, points out that the online market was worth R96-billion in 2024, and accou...

10/09/2025

Nazia Pillay has taken over the reins of SAP Southern Africa, tasked with steering the software giant through a challenging and dynamic business and technology landscape.
SAP

By Kathy Gibson – Nazia Pillay has been confirmed as the MD of SAP Southern Africa, taking the reins at a particularly crucial time for the IT industry. Technology has seen exponential leaps over the last couple of years, and Pillay points out that SAP customers have to negotiate not only the dyna...

30/07/2025

South African channel partners got the inside story on IBM’s new Power 11 at a Johannesburg launch today. The new technology promises to improve customers’ productivity and reduce costs, while paving the road to full artificial intelligence (AI) value.

Kathy Gibson reports – IBM’s Power 11 launch is one of the company’s most significant in recent years: the new technology promises to improve customers’ productivity and reduce costs, while paving the road to full artificial intelligence (AI) value. The last couple of years have seen massive...