Hubble helps precisely measure Uranus’s rotation rate
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New risks for employers amid hiring crisis
With South Africa’s unemployment rate exceeding 32% and expected to rise beyond 33% this year, there’s been an increase in fake qualifications, identity fraud, and financial misrepresentations in the hiring processes. At the same time, businesses, under pressure to...
Cloud complexities drive new challenges
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Cloud computing was punted as the solution to any business and IT challenges - but has spawned new challenges of its own. There was $26-billion in wasted cloud expenditure in 2021, explains Nutanix's Gerhard Fourie. But...
Cyber resilience key to data protection, recovery
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - There is no longer any debate about whether organisations are going to be hit by cyberattacks - it's a case of when it will happen, and how often. This is the word from Ganeshan Naidoo, a systems engineer from Dell...
Removing the complexity from IT security
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Technology has made a lot of things in our lives simpler - but it seems that cybersecurity and data protection has become more complicated. Jacques Smit, strategic partner executive at Acronis South Africa and Africa,...
Micro-segmentation secures network traffic
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Cybersecurity is the biggest risk facing organisations in 2024, putting resellers under pressure to provide effective security solutions. Pinnacle Enterprise distributes the Guardicore Centra solution, a...
Nvidia leads the AI charge
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Nvidia has traditionally been associated with gaming and cryptocurrency mining - but it's GPU technologies are also leading the market in artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. Belinda Duke, business development...
Compute power makes AI work
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Artificial intelligence (AI) is the word on everyone's lips, but customers can't get any value from it without the right hardware stack. JP De Villiers, senior account manager at SuperMicro, points out that the vendor has...
Pinnacle takes aim at the enterprise
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Pinnacle is growing its enterprise business, with a full range of services and solutions that aim to help resellers address the full datacentre stack. The company has been growing its enterprise product and solution...
Electric vehicles enter a new era
In 2024, automakers will continue to wrestle with shifts caused by software and electrification's increasing roles creating a new phase for electric vehicles (EVs), according to Gartner. "New OEM incumbents want to heavily redefine the status quo in automotive," says...
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Network cameras combat rising risks in retail
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Angola Cables, Nokia trial Africa-US optical fibre link
AfricaCom 2019, Cape Town - Angola Cables and Nokia have announced that they have collaborated to provide a direct optical connection between Africa and North America. The fibre-optic routing between Sangano in Angola and Boca Raton, Miami in the US has completed...
Nexign eyes wider African digital market
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Fujitsu launches Fugaku-based PrimeHPC supercomputers
Fujitsu will begin global sales of the PrimeHPC FX1000 and PrimeHPC FX700 models from the "Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC" series, which utilise the technology of supercomputer Fugaku jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu. Shipment is scheduled for March 2020. Both...
KnowBe4 launches new partner program, portal
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AccTech Systems is Sage Cloud Partner of the Year
AccTech Systems has been recognised by Sage South Africa (Sage) for its innovative "taking Sage to the cloud" enterprise resource planning (ERP) offerings at the recent Sage Partner Awards for 2019. In a new award category, AccTech received the accolade of being the...
DNI plans for future ICT capacity, performance needs
DNI, a niche investment company in the telecommunications and distribution sectors, has revamped its Johannesburg-based server room, overcoming current capacity and performance-related challenges and making provision for future requirements, with the assistance of...
Tackle procurement fraud with vetting
Procurement fraud is a leading commercial risk and organisations must implement every possible preventative measure to ensure it does not impact the business. Described loosely, procurement fraud includes the acts of "dishonestly obtaining an advantage, avoiding an...
The business cost of cyber crime
In 2019 it is reported that cyber-crime breaches are up 11% year on year and has increased with over 67% in the last five years according to a study done by Accenture in their Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Global Study. By Corien Vermaak, cyber security specialist...
Ace Black Friday with this cheat sheet
What started as a post-Thanksgiving blowout sale by US retailers has snowballed into one of the most significant calendar days for consumers and the retail industry the world over. Black Friday, which always falls on the day after the US's Thanksgiving holiday, is...
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