What supply chain leaders should prioritise
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Smart cities set for boom period
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Windows 11 is key for broad GenAI adoption
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Enterprises battle to recover as identities come under attack
There's an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises worldwide. According to the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index from IBM X-Force, in 2023 cybercriminals saw more opportunities to "log...
AI sets top supply chain organisations apart
Top performing supply chain organisations are investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to optimize their processes at more than twice the rate of low performing peers, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey also revealed that the best...
GenAI will drive consolidated customer-facing roles
By 2027, 30% of the Fortune 500 will consolidate postpurchase tasks such as expansion, service, success and renewal into a unified customer-facing employee role, according to Gartner. Generative AI (GenAI) promises to automate greater portions of customer service...
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre accelerates quantum computing exploration
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NvidiaCUDA Quantum platform accelerated by Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA...
MSSA to hold online inter-school provincial championships
Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) will hold the 13th Online Inter-school Provincial Championships on 3 March 2024. An important feature of this championship is that it is open to any learner, whether or not the school is affiliated or not. However, approval from the...
Alternative data market set for 50% CAGR
The global alternative data market size is anticipated to reach $135,72-billion by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market is expected to expand at a CAGR of 50,6% from 2024 to 2030. The increasing emphasis on gaining alpha from hedge funds...
Teraco secures grid capacity allocation for utility-scale solar
Teraco has secured its first grid capacity allocation from Eskom and will start construction of a 120MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy facility in the Free State. The grid capacity allocation from Eskom enables Teraco to connect its planned 120MW solar...
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Are we teetering on the edge?
For the past five years we’ve all been talking about the cloud. It’s become all pervasive as companies move to consumption-based pricing, and we’ve watched the meteoric rise of the hyper-scalers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. And that’s despite the cynic’s view...
Solving the challenges of multi-cloud storage
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Case study: how Travelport uses cloud to meet digitalisation demands
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Standard Bank partners with AWS for cloud migration
By Kathy Gibson - Standard Bank plans to migrate production workloads that include customer-facing systems and strategic core banking application to the cloud, and has signed up Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. Group CIO Alpheus Mangale...
The forecast for Africa: cloudy …
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SA set to embrace the public cloud
Cloud computing received a major boost over the last few weeks, with two of the world’s largest public cloud providers officially opening data centres in South Africa. Within days of one another, Huawei and Microsoft both opened their local data centres, offering...
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