No matter how big a business is, running it shouldn't be complicated.

There's a common link between the joint winners of this year's IT Personality of the Year Award - Prof. Barry Dwolatzky and Mteto Nyati. Both men have a passion for supporting young emerging entrepreneurs, and both have made that a core principle guiding their careers.

The IT Personality of the Year Award - now in its 35th year - recognises an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to the South African IT industry in the past year. Here are this year's finalists.

ITWeb picks the brains of industry professionals on what stood out for them this year - and what they see making headlines in 2014.

CIOs are no longer meeting the expectations of their companies and are in danger of being deposed by young upstarts with titles like 'chief digital officer'.

Telecoms players must up their games.

Tablets are beginning to take their rightful place in local classrooms and lecture halls.

The 'Father of the Internet' had more of a hand in SA's Internet industry than many realise.

42Engines is a tech start-up accelerator programme concentrating on Africa-specific tech ideas.

Bring your own device and the consumerisation of IT pose new challenges for enterprise information security.

Security concerns once held back enterprise adoption of cloud services. Now, they're driving organisations to the cloud.

Ethical hacking - especially penetration testing - is a fast-growing segment of the information security market.

Gartner says the cloud security services market will reach $2.1 billion this year.