How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

iStore Education launches 2025 Excellence in Education Awards

iStore Education is has launched the 2025 Excellence in Education Awards, a national celebration of educators and students who are redefining the learning experience through creative and impactful use of Apple technology. Now in its 17th year, the Awards continue to...

African Development Bank and Aerosense advance African drone technology

The African Development Bank and Aerosense have signed an agreement to advance cooperation and projects in drone technology in Africa. Aerosense is a Japanese company engaged in drone manufacturing. Representatives of both institutions signed a Letter of Intent on the...

Salesforce accelerates growth plans in Africa with AI

At its World Tour Essentials event held in Johannesburg yesterday (6 June), Salesforce demonstrated how developments in AI are helping to transform the data analytics and CRM environments. According to the latest IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Salesforce, The Salesforce...

Geo-distributed businesses most at risk

Over one-third (39%) of geographically distributed companies in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region identify building and maintaining a cohesive IT infrastructure across multiple sites as their primary concern, according to a new Kaspersky survey. At the...

Nutanix and Dell collaborate on hybrid multicloud solutions

Nutanix has announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies aimed at accelerating customers' digital transformation journeys fueled by infrastructure modernisation and modern application development. Through this collaboration, joint customers will be able to...

IBM and Pasqal partner on quantum-centric supercomputers

IBM and Pasqal, as leaders in superconducting circuit and neutral atom-based quantum computers respectively, have announced their intent to partner to develop a common approach to quantum-centric supercomputing and promoting application research in chemistry and...

Microsoft takes the global data centre lead

Microsoft has taken the lead with over 300 data centres globally, surpassing AWS. Edith Reads, financial analyst at Stocklytics.com. comments: "Microsoft is ramping up its data center footprint to meet the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) essential...

First Boeing Starliner crewed flight en route to ISS

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit on the first crewed flight test aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. As part of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the astronauts lifted off at 10h52 EDT on...

Global IT service spend to hit $2trn by 2028

According to Forrester's Global IT Services Market Forecast 2023-2028, global IT service industry spending will reach $2-trillion in 2028. However, despite forecasted growth, IT service firms will face several challenges in the next few years. Key findings include: *...

Regional PC shipments set for growth

The Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, continued to exceed expectations in Q1 2024 with shipments increasing 12,2% year on year (YoY) to total 3,53-million units....

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Netshield offers infrastructure management at scale

Customers looking to remotely manage infrastructure, sensitive equipment, energy and water distribution or respond accurately to environmental threats such as fires and even flooding, can now do so at scale and across multiple sites with a point of presence...

Palladium Accounting adds transformation specialists

Palladium Accounting, South Africa's locally developed ERP is launching the Business3 Conference, a business transformation event. Business3 will bring business owners, CEOs, MDs and executives together with business transformation specialists to learn how to harness...

Data security in the age of the cloud

With IT spending in South Africa on the increase and organisations increasingly turning to the cloud to host their data, cybersecurity must remain a strategic priority. And so it has become less about the technical capabilities of protection and more about...

Tarsus Technology Group receives Level 1 BBBEE status

Tarsus Technology Group has received Level 1 BBBEE (broad-based black economic empowerment) certification. The group's BBBEE score has moved up two levels since its last certificate in 2018. The certification means that Tarsus Technology Group and its subsidiary...

Truecaller passes 1m paying subscriptions

Truecaller has passed 1-million paying subscribers globally and added a series of new features to its paid subscription service, Truecaller Premium. Rolled out globally, the premium subscription service will now incorporate several advanced and more powerful spam...

Kaspersky Security Cloud strengthens privacy control

Kaspersky has updated Kaspersky Security Cloud - its account-based service with access to the company's best consumer technologies and tools - with new ways to protect user privacy across multiple devices. Kaspersky Security Cloud now reduces the risk of users'...

Guardrisk sell insurance policy via WhatsApp chatbot

The launch of what is believed to be South Africa'ss first non-life insurance WhatsApp chatbot, took just two weeks from concept to launch. Guardrisk - part of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited - has partnered with fintech start-up Root to extend its CarSure...

Kaspersky appoints Tarsus Distribution

Kaspersky has signed on Tarsus Distribution as a new distributor for the brand's portfolio of business to business and business to consumer product offerings in southern Africa. The new distributor agreement forms part of Kaspersky's growth pipeline for the local...

Fujitsu, Nutanix joint solution gets SAP HANA certification

Fujitsu is enabling the full integration of mission-critical SAP HANA deployments on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) based on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on PRIMERGY to unlock simplified management, higher performance and increased scalability across both private...

JSE to buy majority stake in Link SA

JSE Limited, the operator of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), has agreed to acquire Link Market Services South Africa (Link SA), the second largest share registry business in South Africa (with six of the top 40 listed companies as clients), subject to all...

Specialist Analyst – Gauteng Pretoria CBD

To oversee the implementation and supervision of the regulatory framework for credit ratings agencies CRAs and financial benchmark administrators FBAs CRAs are primarily regulated and supervised in terms of the Credit Rating Services Act No 24 of 2012 CRS Act and the...

Software Engineer – Manufacturing & Internal Systems

Job Description:We are seeking a Software Engineer with expertise in Python and C# to join our team on a contract basis for 6 to 12 months. The ideal candidate will have experience in software development, specifically within manufacturing, industrial automation, or...

Software Developer – Angular at Datonomy Solutions

We are looking for an exceptional individual to build web applications using Angular 13+ with an enthusiasm for building web front end applications. Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment. The...

Senior Business Analyst at Resourgenix

WE'RE HIRING: SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST Drive strategic IT solutions in asset management! Constantia, Cape Town, Salary: R900,000 per annum, Permanent Position, Hybbrid working model Who We Are: We are a leading financial services company specializing in asset...

Cybersecurity Specialist (CPT Hybrid)

ENVIRONMENT:A reputable Financial Services Group seeks the technical expertise of a Cybersecurity Specialist with at least 5-10 years' experience in a technical hands-on administrative or engineering role responsible for Cybersecurity toolsets. Your role will include...

Senior Business Analyst at Resourgenix – Western Cape Constantia

WE'RE HIRING: SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST Drive strategic IT solutions in asset management! Constantia, Cape Town, Salary: R900,000 per annum, Permanent Position, Hybbrid working model Who We Are: We are a leading financial services company specializing in asset...

Cybersecurity Specialist (CPT Hybrid) – Western Cape Mowbray

ENVIRONMENT:A reputable Financial Services Group seeks the technical expertise of a Cybersecurity Specialist with at least 5-10 years' experience in a technical hands-on administrative or engineering role responsible for Cybersecurity toolsets. Your role will include...

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