AI governance without complexity: A business leader’s guide

AI governance without complexity: A business leader’s guide

There is a version of AI governance that looks like a hundred-page policy document, a steering committee and a six-month implementation roadmap. Most businesses do not need that version, writes Senzo Mbhele, MD of Cloud On Demand. What leaders actually want is...

Navigating the frontier of agentic AI

Every year at Cisco Live US I spend time with the people who keep the world running, writes Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at Cisco. The IT teams behind hospitals, power grids, banks, airlines, and governments. The operators who get paged at 2am. The...
TCO is not about cheaper compute but about delivering fewer surprises

TCO is not about cheaper compute but about delivering fewer surprises

In almost every boardroom conversation in southern Africa, the cloud is framed as a cost discussion. Questions like whether it is cheaper or more efficient are common. Those are valid concerns. But they are not the questions that determine whether a cloud strategy...
Blue Pearl accelerates enterprise modernisation with IBM Bob

Blue Pearl accelerates enterprise modernisation with IBM Bob

IBM today is announcing a significant milestone in how Blue Pearl is leveraging IBM Bob, an agentic AI-powered software development partner, to accelerate modernisation of their legacy Java codebase. The agentic AI helps increase engineering productivity, strengthen...
The VPN era is ending, and businesses need a cleaner access model

The VPN era is ending, and businesses need a cleaner access model

The VPN has done its job for a long time. The problem is that many businesses are still asking it to solve a problem it was never designed for. VPNs were developed for a simpler access model than the one businesses now have to manage. By Warren Gordon, BU executive at...

Digital laggards will lose ground

The digital economy is entering a tougher phase, and businesses that fail to modernise properly risk losing ground. Future growth will depend less on simply having digital tools in place and more on whether organisations can turn connectivity, trust and customer...