Neocloud providers becoming a force in AI cloud market
By 2030, neocloud providers will capture 20% of the $267-billion AI cloud market, according to Gartner. “Neocloud” refers to cloud providers built specifically for AI and high-performance workloads. The rapid growth of GenAI is creating unprecedented demand for...
SpaceX speeds AI push with strategic hires
SpaceX, which recently went public with a $2-trillion valuation, is accelerating its expansion of applied artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across engineering and platform operations, says GlobalData. Continued hiring for specialised AI roles highlights a...
The $600bn wake-up call on system downtime
The aggregate cost of unplanned downtime for Global 2000 companies has surged to $600-billion annually – a 50% increase in just two years – according to new research from Cisco subsidiary, Splunk. In partnership with Oxford Economics, the Splunk study – The Hidden...
Messi tops Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup password breach data
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup just weeks away, new research from Specops, an Outpost24 company, finds that Lionel Messi outranks Cristiano Ronaldo by a clear margin in one of the more unexpected matchups of the year: their frequency of appearance in breached password...
Africa’s digital and health planning shifts into high gear
The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) has shifted its new Digital and Health Action Pathways into a higher gear in order to accelerate the continent’s economic transformation by identifying and driving solutions to problems that slow progress. Convening on the...
How a potential rate hike could shift SA’s financial landscape
As the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) prepares for its upcoming announcement on Thursday around the repo rate, the domestic financial sector finds itself at a critical crossroads. While the early months of the year sparked optimism...
Minister responds to reports of UIF system glitch
Recent reports have pointed to issues with the UIF Online system, where an old version of the system is said to still be live, misleading users into believing their claims are being processed when they are not. Nomakhosazana Met, minister of employment and labour,...
How smart glasses are rewriting the rules of consent
EssilorLuxottica and Meta sold more than 7-million Ray-Ban and Oakley-branded smart glasses in 2025. The sales of these intelligent wearables increased almost threefold from 2023 and moved the category to mainstream. In 2023, global smart glasses shipments increased...
NFC relay attacks on smartphones surge 188%
There has been an 188% surge in the number of NFC-based attacks on Android smartphones in the first four months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, according to Kaspersky telemetry. From January to April this year, Kaspersky cybersecurity solutions blocked...
Fintech’s biggest shift isn’t AI, it’s deployment speed
Fintech is seeing a fundamental shift, and it has very little to do with new products, platforms, or even innovation. It’s far more structural than that, writes Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings. Across the industry, organisations are trying to compress software...
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The great simplification: Why compliance technology’s next phase is reintegration
Tool sprawl has become a major challenge for financial services institutions (FIs) after years of buying disparate, single-function regulatory technology (regtech) solutions. By James Saunders, co-founder and chief technology officer at RelyComply Today, many...
Maximise AI value with cost-conscious innovation
AI holds immense potential to drive human progress, reshaping industries and unlocking new opportunities for growth. By Marc Layne, sales director of Dell Technologies South Africa Yet for many businesses across South Africa, the path to AI adoption is paved with...
Annual job hopping makes for a grim cybersecurity season
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Battery energy storage systems enable uptime at Nigerian industries
The most recent collapse of Nigeria’s national power grid, which caused widespread electricity outages across the country, underscored once again the disruptive energy issues that local industries face on a regular basis. By Gary Chomse, regional director for Central...
Integrated security platforms key to protecting modern cloud applications
Cloud-native applications have transformed the way businesses operate, enabling faster innovation, greater agility, and enhanced scalability. By Saurabh Prasad, senior solution architect at In2IT Technologies Yet, with this evolution comes an equally complex security...
Infrastructure boom, liability boom …
South Africa is entering an ambitious new phase of infrastructure investment, with the government having committed R1-trillion to development over the next three years and President Cyril Ramaphosa calling on the private sector to quadruple that figure to R4-trillion....
Automation, digitalisation, AI key drivers for modernising power grids
In 2025 alone, more than 10 major power outages disrupted electricity supplies worldwide, affecting over 1,2-billion people. Ensuring system stability has remained a top priority for global power companies. Stability is not their only concern, however; the drive...
Industry standards and regulations elevate SMS
In an age where true attention has become one of the scarcest commodities in customer engagement, the decades-old SMS channel continues to command exceptionally high open rates and high perceived importance. It’s largely thanks to tight regulations and industry...
Modern telcos should approach AI in BSS with caution and care
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a strategic enabler across all industries, writes Damian Burnett, sales director at VAS-X. Whether it’s apps that suggest content based on user behaviour, systems that automatically optimise service performance, or dashboards...
Is your payroll system holding back global hiring?
Your developers are in India. Your designers log in from Estonia. Your project managers are based in South Africa. For many businesses, this isn’t an exception; it’s the new normal. Remote work and digital collaboration have made it possible to build teams anywhere...
Contract/Project Manager
Join this team and manage large scale projects within the water treatment and mineral processing environment. Flexible work environment, great team, ownership are just some of the excellent benefits you will have when joining this company.Qualification...
Contract/Project Manager – Gauteng Johannesburg
Join this team and manage large scale projects within the water treatment and mineral processing environment. Flexible work environment, great team, ownership are just some of the excellent benefits you will have when joining this company.Qualification...
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
If you're excited by the idea of using machine learning and data engineering to influence business outcomes in real time, this opportunity is worth exploring. A growing technology-driven organisation is looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineering leader...
Lead Machine Learning Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town Region
If you're excited by the idea of using machine learning and data engineering to influence business outcomes in real time, this opportunity is worth exploring. A growing technology-driven organisation is looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineering leader...
Full Stack Microsoft Developer Engineer
Leverage your experience at an established SA technology company.Job Title: Full Stack Microsoft Developer EngineerLocation: Waterkloof Ridge, PretoriaBasic Salary: R60K – R85KAbout the CompanyOur client is an established South African technology company that started...
Full Stack Microsoft Developer Engineer – Gauteng Gauteng
Leverage your experience at an established SA technology company.Job Title: Full Stack Microsoft Developer EngineerLocation: Waterkloof Ridge, PretoriaBasic Salary: R60K – R85KAbout the CompanyOur client is an established South African technology company that started...
Full Stack Microsoft Developer Engineer
Leverage your experience at an established SA technology company.Job Title: Full Stack Microsoft Developer EngineerLocation: Waterkloof Ridge, PretoriaBasic Salary: R60K – R85KAbout the CompanyOur client is an established South African technology company that started...
Full Stack Microsoft Developer Engineer – Gauteng Gauteng
Leverage your experience at an established SA technology company.Job Title: Full Stack Microsoft Developer EngineerLocation: Waterkloof Ridge, PretoriaBasic Salary: R60K – R85KAbout the CompanyOur client is an established South African technology company that started...
Service Desk Analyst
Global legal practice is looking to appoint a Service Desk Analyst The Service Desk Analyst is responsible for providing professional, responsive first and second-line IT support to partners, fee earners and business services staff across the offices. This is a highly...
Service Desk Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town
Global legal practice is looking to appoint a Service Desk Analyst The Service Desk Analyst is responsible for providing professional, responsive first and second-line IT support to partners, fee earners and business services staff across the offices. This is a highly...
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