Digital skills gap slows Industry 4.0

Digital skills gap slows Industry 4.0

When it comes to Industry 4.0, the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector, there’s a serious skills gap that most Western industrial production training programs and government investment initiatives fail to address. A new study from Intel,...

Probability of global recession recedes, says IHS

After weakening considerably in 2019, global growth is expected to stabilise at a rate of 2,5% in 2020 before edging up 2,7% in 2021, according to the annual Top-10 Economic Predictions by business information provider IHS Markit. Despite historically high levels of...

Blockchain plus IoT is booming

The majority of Internet of Things (IoT) technology adopters in the US are also adopting blockchain and combining it with their IoT networks, according to a Gartner survey. “The integration of IoT and blockchain networks is a sweet spot for digital transformation and...

What to expect in 2020 and beyond

The future enterprise will be tech-everywhere, platform-based and ecosystem-centric, with innovation as the norm. This is the key message from an IDC webinar presented by Thomas Meyer, GM and group vice-president, and Phil Carter, chief analyst. IDC’s...

Theft affects Mitchells Plain connectivity

Openserve has reported a major incident of cable theft in Eisleben Road, Portland in the Mitchells Plain area. On Thursday, 12 December 2019, multiple cables of varying lengths were cut and stolen. This incident is impacting the surrounding communities that are...

ISPs hope blackhole will mitigate DDoS attacks

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in South Africa were targeted with an unusually large number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks last month with media reports attributing these cyberattacks to organised criminal syndicates. It’s not all bad news,...