Microsoft patches vulnerabilities exposed by Check Point
Microsoft has released the final patches for six newly discovered Windows vulnerabilities identified by Check Point Research, including one rated as critical. These vulnerabilities could crash entire systems or allow attackers to run malicious code, posing real risks...
Is the biggest business enemy actually on the inside?
IBM, the largest industrial research organisation in the world, has found that malicious insider threats caused the most expensive data breaches in 2024 - costing an average of $4,99-million per incident – and these already-elusive breaches are becoming harder to...
IBM, Intel collaborate to drive AI innovation
IBM and Intel are collaborating to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud by early next year to help more cost effectively scale enterprise AI and drive innovation underpinned with security and resiliency. This collaboration will also enable...
GenAI a key theme in companies’ discussions
Companies across various sectors are incorporating next-generation AI capabilities into their solutions, with GenAI standing out as a primary focus of technological innovation, reveals the Company Filings Analytics Database of research group GlobalData. The company’s...
Sluggish demand pushes Absa PMI back to contractionary territory
After the encouraging uptick in July, the seasonally adjusted PMI dropped significantly by 8.8 points to 43.6 in August, down from 52.4 in July. This decline underscores the challenges the sector faces amid ongoing political uncertainty, high but slowing inflation,...
Intel raises the bar for AI performance on Xeon processors
In the latest MLCommons AI performance benchmark suite – MLPerf Inference v4.1 - Intel submitted results across six MLPerf benchmarks for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and, for the first time, its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). Intel Xeon 6...
IBM unlocks capabilities for enterprise-scale AI
IBM has revealed architecture details for the upcoming IBM Telum II Processor and IBM Spyre Accelerator - new technologies designed to significantly scale processing capacity across next generation IBM Z mainframe systems and help accelerate the use of traditional AI...
Nvidia Blackwell sets new standard for GenAI in MLPerf benchmarks
As enterprises race to adopt generative AI and bring new services to market, the demands on data centre infrastructure have never been greater – training large language models (LLMs) is one challenge, but delivering LLM-powered realtime services is another. In the...
Gold Fields migrates SAP environments to AWS
Gold Fields has migrated its end-to-end SAP and treasury systems to AWS as part of its digital transformation strategy. The collaboration has enabled Gold Fields to modernise technology infrastructure, while enabling AWS’s analytics, machine learning (ML), and...
R50bn in Sanral tenders in the market
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) is currently evaluating 96 tenders worth R35-billion, while 86 contracts worth R15-billion have already been awarded since the start of the 2024/25 financial year on 1 April 2024. The tenders currently in evaluation...
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VMware unveils Modern Network framework for data centre, cloud
VMware has unveiled the Modern Network framework to enable businesses, and their IT and application development teams, to accelerate adapting to a new normal. To help customers realize a modern network of their own, VMware also announced further enhancements to its...
Data management vital for future-ready tax practitioners
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Embrace a remote, video-driven business environment
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Data can help business recovery
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How to nail Black Friday during a pandemic
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Prevent a disaster from becoming a catastrophe
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Stay positive and find work in a post-Covid world
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The rise of ransomware 2.0
Over the past couple of years, widespread ransomware attacks - where criminals use malware to encrypt your data and hold it for ransom - have been replaced by more targeted attacks against specific companies and industries. In these more targeted campaigns, attackers...
The ideal employer remuneration model for the Covid-19 era
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Location intelligence can help telcos maximise 5G ROI
Telcos are faced with multiple challenges in a saturated market, where margins are low, competition is high and churn between networks is high. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management Now, as 5G gains momentum, intelligent network coverage becomes more...
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Our client is a data modernization consultancy that helps organizations transform outdated, siloed systems into scalable, insight-driven ecosystems. They are looking for someone to join their dynamic consulting team as a Senior Qlik Sense Cloud Developer, delivering...
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ENVIRONMENT:ENSURE well established high-performing team dynamics, a continuous flow, and an exponential improvement in processes as then next Scrum Master sought by an innovative Investment Firm based in Centurion. You will help and coordinate the development and...
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