Volatile year ahead calls for resilience, insight, courage

Volatile year ahead calls for resilience, insight, courage

Businesses will face a historically broad and deep set of risks in 2023, posing interconnected and existential threats across geographies and sectors. Launching its annual RiskMap forecast featuring the Top Risks for business, specialist risk consultancy Control Risks...
CEOs are prepared to weather expected recession

CEOs are prepared to weather expected recession

Kathy Gibson reports – CEOs in South Africa and ready and prepared to weather geopolitical and economic challenges. This is one of the headline findings from, KPMG 2022 CEO Outlook Survey, presented in partnership with Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA),...
Climate change could drive more insects to extinction

Climate change could drive more insects to extinction

New NASA research models are shedding light on how insect populations may respond to severe changes in temperature that are likely climate change. In a study recently published in Nature Climate Change, scientists found that 65% of the insect populations they examined...
In pursuit of the zero-carbon data centre

In pursuit of the zero-carbon data centre

Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – Data centres today use massive amounts of electricity – and this is set to increase by as much as 200% as new technologies come online. “So there is an urgent problem today – and more that we...
Why cloud sovereignty is important

Why cloud sovereignty is important

Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – As VMware promotes the importance of a sovereign cloud, South African providers have been at the forefront of giving their customers just this. Joe Baguley, vice-president and chief technology officer: EMEA...