SA’s bargain hunters will hit the Black Friday sales

SA’s bargain hunters will hit the Black Friday sales

A massive 70% of South African adults will be shopping Black Friday and other festive sales days this year. A Finder.com survey of 1 524 South African adults reveals that 70%, which equates to around 27-million people, are planning to shop the festive sales this year...

Building skills top 2021 priority for HR

Building critical skills and competencies is the number one priority for HR leaders in 2021. Gartner’s HR Priorities Survey, conducted from June through August 2020, found the other top HR priorities for 2021 are: organisational design and change management...

Xeon powers new Ruby supercomputer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will leverage Intel Xeon Scalable processors in Ruby, its latest high performance computing cluster. The Ruby system will be used for unclassified programmatic work in support of the National Nuclear Security...

Workers don’t want a return to pre-Covid offices

A massive three quarters of employees (78%) in South Africa want to rethink pre-Covid-19 ways of working, according to new research from Kaspersky. Instead of returning to business as usual, workers are now shaping a future of business on their terms, whether...

HPC takes on new role in Covid-19 fight

The Covid-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, a public-private effort to make supercomputing power available to researchers working on projects related to Covid-19, has entered into a new phase of operation focused on helping researchers to identify...

Big changes for ICT in 2021

The information technology (IT) industry will morph in 2021, prompted by its response to the chaos of 2020 and affirmation that it is the central nervous system of our digital society. This is according to the IT Industry Outlook 2021 by CompTIA, the annual report...