Interview: Lenovo DCG regional director Jim Holland

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In this promoted episode of the podcast, Lenovo Data Centre Group regional director for Southern Africa Jim Holland speaks to TechCentral about how enterprises in South Africa are adopting Internet of things (IoT) technologies.
The discussion, flowing from a recent roundtable with IT leaders in South Africa, begins with a discussion about Lenovo DCG, its positioning in the market and some of the solutions its bringing to both corporate users and hyperscale cloud providers.
Holland provides his views on the key insights from the roundtable and how big companies are using IoT to good effect.
He talks about some of the opportunities around IoT and the role he sees Lenovo playing as more and more of these projects get off the ground.
1 Apr 2020 English South Africa Technology · Business

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