Balancing data monetisation with data sovereignty

Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – As cloud computing takes off around the world, governments and critical industries are becoming more aware of the problems associated with data residing outside of national borders. New research conducted by...
Lateral protection the new security frontier

Lateral protection the new security frontier

Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – Arguably the biggest challenge for CIOs and CEOs today is the mounting security threat. “And now there is a new battleground in security,” says Raghu Raghuran, CEO of VMware. “We call it lateral...

Facing cloud chaos, CIOs aim to achieve cloud smart

Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – Companies around the world lived through a difficult two years with the pandemic – and for many of them things are getting worse. “Over the last few months the macro environments that customers work in...

Gates Foundation calls for bold and immediate action at COP27

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has echoed African leaders’ calls at COP27 for countries to rapidly scale-up finance for climate adaptation, and pledged to invest $1,4-billion to help smallholder farmers address the immediate and long-term impacts of...

All-time highs for electronic payments in October

BankservAfrica has set a new record on EFT payments by processing over 100-million EFT credit payments in October. EFT credit payments are lower-value credit payments made by consumers, businesses and government. “The total of 101-million transactions –...