Key industries targeted by APT groups across META

Kaspersky says that the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa (META) are a focus for 25 Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups tracked since early 2024 and which are targeting financial services, critical infrastructure, defence, and government entities – as well as...

Infrastructure: The missing link for local SME growth

As South Africa marks Transport Month, the country’s infrastructure challenges continue to pose serious barriers to the growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), says a leading investment analyst. For years, frequent load shedding and poor...

Driving operational efficiency with GenAI observability

Following the preview of IBM Instana Intelligent Incident Investigation, the company has announced the general availability of Instana GenAI Observability to provide faster, more comprehensive root cause identification in the generative and agentic AI era. As...

IBM adds Spyre Accelerator to its AI portfolio

IBM has announced the imminent general availability of IBM Spyre Accelerator – an AI accelerator enabling low-latency inferencing to support generative and agentic AI use cases while prioritising the security and resilience of core workloads. Earlier this year,...

IBM breaks down barriers in lakehouse environments

At its annual TechXchange conference in Orlando, IBM has launched watsonx.data developer edition – a free desktop application that makes it easier for developers and data engineers to explore, prototype, and learn in a complete data lakehouse environment. Data...

IBM, Anthropic partner to advance enterprise software development

IBM and Anthropic have partnered to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Anthropic’s Claude – one of the world’s most powerful family of large language models (LLMs) – into IBM’s software portfolio. The collaboration will see...