Obituary: Elmari Keyser
Well-known industry personality Elmari Keyser has died after a prolonged illness. Keyser has been a presence in the IT industry for the last 15 years, having begun her career at Datacentrix in 2009. She also worked as a brand executive at Pinnacle, and as both sales...
US Treasury fingers China for data breach
The US Treasury Department is blaming Chinese state-backed hackers for compromising its systems to access unclassified documents. In a letter from the US Treasury Department to Congress, it is claimed that hackers compromised a third-party cybersecurity service...
Altron set to divest of two operations
Altron has issued a trading statement for the six months ended 31 August 2023 warning shareholders of substantial changes in its financial results from the previous corresponding period. Headline earnings per share (HEPS) from continuing operations is estimated to be...
Half of breached organisations unwilling to up security spend
IBM Security's newly-released annual Cost of a Data Breach Report says that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4,45-million in 2023 - an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last three years. Detection and escalation costs jumped 42%...
Business and ethics in the age of AI
Kathy Gibson reports - Artificial intelligence (AI) is the big game-changer in business this year, and enterprises need to ensure they are not left behind in this quickly-changing world. At the same time, vendors and IT resellers need to keep themselves informed and...
CIOs aim for hybrid by design
Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises the world over recognise the need for a hybrid cloud IT model - but too often these environments end up as a hodge-podge of solutions that don't necessarily address the business's core issues. Sandile Dube, country manager of HPE...
Satellite communication market set to surge
The global satellite communication market size is expected to reach $159,60-billion by 2030 - growing at a CAGR of 9,7% from 2023 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research. Surge in the demand for satellite broadband services, particularly in remote...
The AI revolution: Which tech companies will profit from it?
Since the announcement of ChatGPT late last year, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the buzzword on everyone's lips. In this Q&A article, members of global investment manager Schroder's public and private equities team - including global sector specialists...
Western Cape’s under-fives carry a double burden of malnutrition
The Western Cape's children under the age of five carry a double burden of malnutrition. While the levels of stunting are lower than in the rest of the country, it is still a concern. Obesity levels in the province represent a "very high public health concern". These...
Eastern Cape SMBs get boost with new digital platform
The Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) has launched a new digital platform aimed at transforming the way small-and-medium businesses (SMBs) access funding to grow their various ventures, automating loan funding and business support processes. The integrated...
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Gemalto, Casio bring education into the 21st century
Gemalto has partnered with Casio, a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics products and business equipment solutions, to enable Casio to bring digital education into the classroom and beyond. The move will help Casio continue its leadership in classroom...
Velocity Group chooses HPE SimpliVity
The Velocity Group, a specialist South African ICT partner, is partnering with HPE SimpliVity to deliver hyperconverged infrastructure to its customer base. The announcement sees Velocity Group lead with HPE SimpliVity as a platform of choice when assisting customers...
Avaya and Afiniti bring AI to the contact centre
Avaya Holdings and Afiniti, a provider of AI-based behavioral pairing solutions, have announced a strategic partnership to improve enterprise customer experience and contact centre performance by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into contact center routing...
Defining ourselves in a virtual world
SAP Africa's Head of Innovation and South Africa's Mars One candidate, Dr Adriana Marais, talks about taking back ownership of our identities in the digital world, through the compelling application of blockchain. We're bringing information and devices online at an...
Africa benefits from late mover advantage in the cloud
Established information technology markets - like the UK, Europe and even South Africa - often take cloud computing for granted as the ideal platform for innovation and global expansion. One reason could be that these markets gradually adopted cloud computing as and...
Data key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe
Human exploration has made leaps and bounds since man first landed on the moon in 1969. We have now entered a paradigm where data takes centre stage, writes Morne Bekker, country manager of NetApp South Africa. Of course creating a 3D map of over one billion stars,...
Roles (not jobs) rule in the digital era
It is true to say that much of our identity comes from our jobs. Our economy builds on these and the types of jobs that are in demand (and their distribution and compensation) are often a proxy for what society considers important. The trouble is, jobs as a term feels...
Paratus slashes data prices by 80%
Paratus Namibia, a privately-owned pan-African telecoms operator, has slashed its data prices by 83,4%, now offering what it says is the cheapest data bundles with the most affordable data at N$15.00 per gigabyte. The telecoms operator has decreased its data pricing...
Nerd academy programme launches in the Karoo
A nerd alert has been issued by the Karoo Tech Hub, an initiative run by video production company Piehole.tv in collaboration with ProcurementExpress.com. With an estimated 45% unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape, the tech hub has launched a free programme called...
Xerox WorkCentre 6515 Color MFP wins design award
The Xerox WorkCentre 6515 Color Multifunction Printer (MFP) has won a 2018 iF Design Award from the International Forum Design. The award-winning look was developed by a global team of product designers from Xerox and Fuji Xerox in Japan. The WorkCentre 6515 won in...
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