CIOs confirm they’re in the third era of IT

CIOs confirm they’re in the third era of IT

Digital business is maturing, from tentative experiment to application at massive scale – and CIOs must evolve their thinking to be in tune with this new era of rapid increases in the scale of digital business. Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs showed...

ISPA: open access is making progress

Communities across the country are increasingly insisting on open access fibre optic cable installations which provide a neutral platform for ISPs to compete with each other to the benefit of tenants and residents. That’s the word from South Africa’s...

Fintech startups get R16m from AlphaCode

Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI), through AlphaCode, has awarded entrepreneurial packages valued at R16-million to eight of South Africa’s most promising financial services startups. The entrepreneurial packages consist of R1-million in grant funding and...

Telkom implements ICASA’s End-User Subscriber Service Charter

Telkom is implementing the suspended End-User Subscriber Service Charter (EUSSC), starting with the introduction of revised usage depletion notifications as well as changing the default out-of-bundle billing on all its tariffs from Saturday, 20 October 2018. According...

Massive power saving with Fujitsu cooling tech

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed cooling control technology to make major reductions to electricity usage by data centre cooling equipment. With the rapid spread of AI services, data centres now increasingly host high-performance, high-temperature-generating...
SA’s currency vulnerable, subject to crises

SA’s currency vulnerable, subject to crises

Emerging market currencies that have already seen depreciation this year will continue to be susceptible to balance-of-payment crises, according to the External Vulnerability Index published by business information provider IHS Markit. Emerging market currencies have...