Government IT spend set for 5% global growth

Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total $565,7-billion in 2022, an increase of 5% from 2021, according to Gartner. “The last few years of enduring pandemic challenges have mobilized a wave of digital transformation activities in government...

Mobile-first comms empower a hybrid workforce

Organisations have shifted to hybrid work models and adopted new mobile communications strategies due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Evaluating Mobile Communications Solutions for the Hybrid Workforce, finds that...

Pressure to improve ESG drives increased spend in business services

Organisations face mounting pressures to improve and document their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Because the initial steps to a sustainable transformation can be daunting to firms that have not attempted anything similar in the past,...

Vantage secures solar energy for Joburg data centre

Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica to supplement the local grid that powers the company’s Johannesburg (JNB1) data centere campus...

Employee Tax Incentive abuse exploits unemployed youth

Abusive Employee Tax Incentive schemes (ETI) marketed by some training providers has done massive damage to the training and development industry, leaving many businesses hesitant to revisit the many social and economic benefits of the scheme. But, most crucially,...

Is your router secure?

Routers are essential for WiFi connections, with millions of new devices set up daily in homes and workplaces. According to analysis conducted by Kaspersky, over 500 vulnerabilities were discovered in routers in 2021, including 87 critical ones. Threats stemming from...