In digital transformation, business and IT are in conflict

In digital transformation, business and IT are in conflict

Kathy Gibson is at IDC Cloud and Data Centre Roadshow in Sandton – CIOs are facing new issues and challenges as cloud computing becomes more pervasive, and frequently comes into conflict with data centre operations. One of the main drivers for cloud is the...
NASA studies African smoke cloud

NASA studies African smoke cloud

Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2 000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between cloud droplets and the tiny airborne smoke...
AI helps to combat human trafficking

AI helps to combat human trafficking

The estimated $150-billion forced-labour industry is one of the most pressing social issues of our time, with potentially millions of people around the world being subject to multiple forms of illegal exploitation. IBM, Stop the Traffik (STT), Western Union, Barclays,...
CIOs confirm they’re in the third era of IT

CIOs confirm they’re in the third era of IT

Digital business is maturing, from tentative experiment to application at massive scale – and CIOs must evolve their thinking to be in tune with this new era of rapid increases in the scale of digital business. Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs showed...
SA’s currency vulnerable, subject to crises

SA’s currency vulnerable, subject to crises

Emerging market currencies that have already seen depreciation this year will continue to be susceptible to balance-of-payment crises, according to the External Vulnerability Index published by business information provider IHS Markit. Emerging market currencies have...
CIOs urged to get on top of quantum computing

CIOs urged to get on top of quantum computing

Research labs, government agencies (NASA) and technology giants like Microsoft, IBM and Google are all focused on developing quantum theories first put forward in the 1970s. What’s more, a growing start-up quantum computing ecosystem is attracting hundreds of...