{"id":192040,"date":"2017-08-14T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=192040"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:31:49","slug":"vodacom-business-launches-virtual-cio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/192040\/vodacom-business-launches-virtual-cio\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom Business launches Virtual CIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business has launched Virtual CIO, a service that provides a full suite of IT support to s<span class=\"_Tgc\">mall, medium and micro-sized enterprises (<\/span>SMMEs).<\/p>\n<p>The service offers proactive monitoring, telephonic and onsite IT support &#8211; from R199 per month &#8211; to businesses which are either unable to afford or do not require full time resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With increased digitalisation, SMMEs rely even more on networks and connectivity. They also face a number of challenges such as sluggish networks, network downtime or even cybercrime. Many of them cannot afford to have dedicated IT resources, making their revenue and information more vulnerable,&#8221; the operator said.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual CIO is a subscription service which proactively detects IT problems before they arise, safeguarding SMMEs which are vulnerable to prolonged IT outages. The solution provides full telephonic and onsite support as well as IT network auditing of infrastructure on a cost effective per user basis.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual CIO\u2019s monitoring features include malware\/virus alerts, CPU usage and WLAN\/LAN speed and availability.<\/p>\n<p>Full telephonic support allows a Virtual CIO technician to access the business\u2019s computer system remotely and resolve conflicts. Unlimited onsite support will be provided by a trained IT technician, Vodacom said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/191306\/vodacom-claims-it-has-already-dropped-effective-data-prices-by-44-in-3-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vodacom claims it has already dropped data prices by 44% in 3 years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business has launched Virtual CIO, a service that provides a full suite of IT support to small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":64153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-192040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192042,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192040\/revisions\/192042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}