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Ivanti Announces Strategic Partnerships with Intel and Qualys

By Kay-Lee Franco / August 17, 2020

Ivanti recently announced several strategic partnerships to better deliver world-class endpoint management, patch management, and end-to-end security solutions. Intel vPro® Platform-Based Devices with Intel® Endpoint Management Assistant Now Integrates with Ivanti Neurons Platform. Offering Device-as-a-Service with self-healing capabilities for the next generation workforce, Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (Intel EMA) now integrates with the Ivanti Neurons hyper-automation platform. […]

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Introducing the Ivanti Neurons Platform to Self Heal, Self Secure, and Self Service.

By Kay-Lee Franco / August 5, 2020

At Think Tank, our vision is to be the best at making South African businesses work better and, during this new normal, continuing to leverage software solutions to meet your goals and objectives. This is why we partner with Ivanti, the software that automates IT and Security Operations to discover, manage, secure and service from

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Having Unified IT is More Powerful than Ever

1 Comment / By Greg Strydom / April 9, 2020

Following up on my previous post about how we as IT managers can be supporting employees and business needs remotely – I also asked whether your business is cloud ready. The answer, in my perspective, is all businesses can adapt to be cloud ready.

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Cyber Attacks on the Rise during Coronavirus

By Greg Strydom / April 9, 2020

As South Africa enters its first full week of lockdown and businesses transition to remote working (and we all find ourselves spending a lot more time online) – an unfortunate side effect is an increase in cyber-attacks targeted to remote workers.

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Coding Zealotry: Peer Programming

By Kay-Lee Franco / February 1, 2016

In our next episode of the smash hit series “Coding Zealotry” (aka “The Random Babbling of a Madman”), we’re looking at the practice of peer programming (pair programming) and asking ourselves whether we should abandon our solitude and do it all together. Peering Into the Paradigm In case you’re uninitiated, peer programming involves two programmers

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CIO Strategy: Three Imperatives for IT Vitality & Business Success

CIO Strategy: Three Imperatives for IT Vitality and Business Success

By Greg Strydom / November 20, 2015

A video interview with Sheila Jordan, CIO, Symantec IT is not just about reducing cost and driving new efficiencies. Sheila Jordan came to Symantec to make IT a strategic driver of business change and growth. To do this, she is making IT “a services-led organisation.” While many of these are IT services, many will extend

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What Is Killing Corporate Productivity?

By Greg Strydom / November 20, 2015

The ‘daily grind’ is draining more than our morale; it’s killing corporate productivity. New research reveals that managers in corporate environments spend two days a week on unnecessary day-to-day administrative tasks that are not core to their jobs. That’s almost as much time as real work. Why?

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Coding Zealotry: Class Interfaces

By Kay-Lee Franco / September 30, 2015

In a previous article entitled “The Religious Zealotry of Coding Best Practice”, we looked at how some best practices are implemented blindly, even though the costs outweigh the benefits where the practice is actually implemented. In this article we’ll take a brief look at class interfaces. It Starts Simple So here’s a classic service class

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The Religious Zealotry of Coding Best Practice

By Kay-Lee Franco / August 31, 2015

Looking across the different cultures of software houses, I’d say there are roughly three camps: 1. The Hack-Attack The fast food merchants of code production, these guys look to get it out ASAP. Do the least possible work to get the sign-off from the customer, to get a product installed that does what it’s meant

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