These are 2025’s top trends in data and analytics
Gartner has identified the top data and analytics (D&A) trends for 2025 that are driving the emergence of a wide range of challenges, including organizational and human issues. “D&A is going from the domain of the few, to ubiquity,” says Gareth Herschel,...
Slow but steady growth for security appliances
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, total market revenue in the security appliances market remained stable, posting a 1,5% growth in the fourth quarter of 2024 (4Q24) and reaching $5,1-billion - an...
Africa under the spotlight in Vodafone, Microsoft partnership
Vodafone and Microsoft have announced a new 10-year strategic partnership that leverages their respective strengths in offering scaled digital platforms to more than 300-million businesses, public sector organisations, and consumers across Europe and Africa. The...
Critical infrastructure blackouts top SA business risk for 2024
Cyber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry for companies globally in 2024, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer. The closely interlinked peril of Business interruption ranks second. Natural catastrophes (up...
Shared cloud infrastructure spend drives overall growth
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments,...
AI takes centre stage in financial industry
The financial services industry is undergoing a significant transformation with the adoption of AI technologies, according to Nvidia's fourth annual State of AI in Financial Services Report. The report reveals that an overwhelming 91% of financial services companies...
Big drop for global semiconductor revenue in 2023
Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2023 totaled $533-billion, a decrease of 11,1% from 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner. “While the cyclicality in the semiconductor industry was present again in 2023, the market suffered a difficult year with memory...
New vehicle tech will be worth $1,6trn by 2034
Autonomous driving, electric vehicles, connected and software-defined vehicles, and in-cabin monitoring are all megatrends reshaping the automotive industry. Together, these technologies combine to form a $1,6-trillion opportunity by 2034, nearly a 10-fold increase...
Apple grabs smartphone top spot
The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010, and for 2023 it is now Apple. A shifting of power at the top of the largest consumer electronics market was driven by an all-time high market share for Apple and a first time...
Human by design technologies supercharge productivity, creativity
New research from Accenture finds the world is in the midst of a massive technology shift, as AI and other disruptive technologies become "Human by Design" - much more human-like and intuitive for people to use - and usher in a new era of unprecedented productivity...
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Stop navel-gazing at encryption
We are so enthralled by our own brilliance in cryptography that we forget that most data at rest - tucked away inside databases - is unencrypted. By Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist at F5 Networks Case in point, a Skyhigh analysis of encryption controls...
How does data quality underpin success in a disrupted banking environment?
The banking industry is currently in a state of flux. Traditional banks have to contend with new competitors unburdened by legacy technology or business models, making them far more agile and responsive. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management These advantages...
Building the security baseline
At any given moment, a cybercrime victim is losing around R3.5 million a day, according to Action Fraud in the UK. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019 found that 60% of medium firms and 61% of large firms deny that they have been attacked and yet 25% of those that...
A pragmatic approach to cloud in the age of hyperscale
Enterprise IT is sceptical about moving business critical internal operations to the cloud - and for good reason. Andrew Cruise, MD of vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider Routed, says that while businesses are keen to rid themselves of expensive on-premise...
Device as a service makes IT agile, predictable and transparent
We’ve got software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), even disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) among a host of “as a service” offerings – so it was only a matter of time until device as a service (DaaS) came into its own. It’s not too obvious why it...
Busting the gaming stereotype
South Africa's gamers are educated, healthy, well-off and lives life to the full, writes Rachel Thompson, insights director of GfK South Africa. Perceptions that gamers are predominantly young, geeky, and male persist, despite the reality that playing videogames has...
Volatility, uncertainty can disrupt the supply chain
Take a look at the news headlines today and you'll find volatility is a trend across the globe. Consider Brexit or the trade wars between the US and China or even, more recently, trade wars between the US and Mexico. All of this uncertainty leads to anxiety and never...
How to use bridging and bonding in your career
It is no secret that professional networking builds competencies and creates strategic relationships, while also expanding an individual's visibility and credibility. However, not all networking has the same effect. In fact, you can think of networking in either one...
Plan to create more skilled jobs in Africa
SAP and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) plan to jointly create 450 jobs for highly qualified personnel in the IT sector in 10 African countries. The collaboration, which was presented in Berlin today by German Development...
Innovation management boosts and secures your CX
The customer experience (CX) has evolved rapidly in the past decade. By Calton Nhando, digital consultant at IndigoCube Change is the only constant so what works today won't necessarily work tomorrow. And the world that companies face today is vastly different from...
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