Rising Stars finalises announced

The finalists for the fifth Annual Standard Bank Rising Star Awards have been announced – with five ICT finalists on the list. hese are Hanlie de Bod and Khetha Majozi, from Britehouse, Samantha Cammarata and Zjaen Coetzee from Telkom, and Refilwe Nkabinde from...

Recognition for SA fintech solution

Software as a service (SaaS0 company e4 has been nominated for an African fintech award. Featured in the innovative banking category, e4 is being recognised for its disruptive banking solution, Virtual Identity, which digitally enables the FICA process for accountable...

AlphaBay disappears: what to look out for

The AlphaBay dark web marketplace has been inaccessible since 5 July. Rick Holland, vice-president: strategy at Digital Shadows, speculates on what might have happened – and what could happen next. With no substantive explanation from the site’s owners,...
IBM repositions the mainframe

IBM repositions the mainframe

The new IBM Z is capable not only of running more than 12-billion encrypted transactions per day, it also features an encryption engine that, for the first time, makes it possible to pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service or database...

Kuehnemann is interim MD at SAP Africa

Claas Kuehnemann has been named as the acting MD of SAP Africa while the company investigates allegations of kickbacks to a Gupta-linked company. Peter David, regional chief financial officer of SAP EMEA will step into the role of acting chief financial officer for...

Repairs to SAT3 cable underway

Openserve has minimised the impact of a break in the SAT3 submarine cable by successfully diverted international connectivity traffic. The SAT3 submarine cable is a consortium owned undersea cable that is managed and operated by Openserve from its Melkbosstrand cable...