ICT skills gap is real, more needs to be done

ICT skills gap is real, more needs to be done

Kathy Gibson reports – The ICT skills gaps is real: employers, sector education and training authorities (SETAs) and recruiters all confirm that they are unable to get the skills they need. This is the word from Adrian Schofield, consultant at the Institute of...
3D-printed glove to reduce workplace injuries

3D-printed glove to reduce workplace injuries

Engineers from Jaguar Land Rover are working on the next generation of protective workplace clothing – a lightweight 3D-printed glove which could help better protect employees from the threat of a musculoskeletal disorder. The 3D glove is designed for people...
Final call to send your name to Mars

Final call to send your name to Mars

It’s the final boarding call for you to stow your name on NASA’s Mars 2020 rover before it launches to the Red Planet. The 30 September deadline for NASA’s “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign gives the mission enough time to stencil the...
Tech takes centre stage at Olympic Games Tokyo

Tech takes centre stage at Olympic Games Tokyo

All eyes on on Japan as the Rugby World Cup kicks off today. But the island nation is already looking ahead to its next big sporting event – the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Intel has announced that it is partnering with the International Olympic Committee (IOC),...
Infrastructure moves to flexible on-premise consumption

Infrastructure moves to flexible on-premise consumption

There has been a growing demand for more flexible approaches for consuming on-premises IT, and infrastructure vendors ranging from HPE, Dell EMC and Lenovo, to IBM, Cisco and NetApp are all targeting what they see as growing enterprise demand for flexible on-premises...
Top technology trends for 2020

Top technology trends for 2020

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Technology will impact the way we all do business, and there are some trends that organisations cannot afford to ignore. Brian Burke, research vice-president at Gartner, points out that the technologies that will...