IoT and how it will impact society

Kathy Gibson reports from the MTN IoT Conference in Sandton – The 50-bilion devices that are expected to be connected by 2020 translates to about six devices for each person on the planet. And, with $1,3-trillion being spent on Internet of Things (IoT), about...

Follow the money for IoT success

Kathy Gibson reports from the MTN IoT Conference in Sandton – The sharing economy is rapidly becoming a reality as a means of solving problems associated with congestion and underutilisation of expensive resources. Jimmy Zhu, IoT regional director at Huawei,...

Innovation in an era of massive change

Kathy Gibson reports from the MTN IoT Conference in Sandton – The whole ICT industry is going through massive change, mirroring the enormous transition taking place in business at large. “We call this the vortex of change,” says Videsha...

The challenge of mobile payment security

South African financial institutions are under severe pressure to better secure their mobile services. Fraud and increasingly-sophisticated phishing attacks are massive challenges for organisations providing financial services via mobile devices, whereas the demand...
Solving power problems in SA

Solving power problems in SA

Challenges around power generation, T&D, metering, clean energy, finance, reliability, water supply and energy efficiency are the causes of concern for various organisations in the utilities sector – but technology can assist in addressing all of them. KPMG...

DevOps with cloud for better software delivery

Companies can expect as 81% improvement in overall software delivery performance when they combine DevOps methodologies with Cloud-based tools and delivery mechanisms. This compares to an improvement of just 52% when practicing DevOps alone or 53% when leveraging...