Dramatic decline in DRAM

Recent concerns over market conditions, coupled with a sharp downturn in average selling prices, will lead the DRAM market to reach just $77-billion in 2019 – a 22% year-over-year decline, says IHS Markit. And, the research group adds, falling prices and weak...

Liquid Telecom upgrades network with Nokia

Liquid Telecom Kenya and Nokia have announced a two-year partnership to upgrade its existing fibre network to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G, resulting in a faster and more reliable connection along the route from the Indian Ocean...
Responsible development key in intelligence era

Responsible development key in intelligence era

Kathy Gibson is at DevConf in Midrand – The new era of intelligent systems has the ability to fundamentally change the world – but this might not be for the better unless these systems are carefully and thoughtfully designed. That’s the word from...

Industrial computers hit by malicious cyber activity

In 2018, Kaspersky Lab detected and prevented activity by malicous objects on almost half of Industrial Control System (ICS) computers protected by the company’s products and defined as part of an organisation’s industrial infrastructure. The most affected...
Standard Bank moves to cloud with AWS

Standard Bank moves to cloud with AWS

Standard Bank Group has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of migrating its production workloads, including its customer facing platforms and strategic core banking applications to the cloud. Standard Bank Group will...

Bank Zero gears up for commercial launch

Bank Zero has officially implemented its EFT payments capabilities and started full end-to-end beta testing ahead of the bank’s launch in the second half of 2019. Bank Zero is now processing payments and debit orders efficiently and securely, as well as...