Leonardo supercomputer makes cooling sustainable
Kathy Gibson reports - One of Europe’s biggest supercomputers, Leonardo ranks number 9 on the latest global Top500 list. When the CINECA data centre in Bologna, Italy, went live in 2022, the Leonardo petascale supercomputer was the fourth-largest in the world. The...
Legal, risk, compliance to double tech spend by 2027
Assurance leaders are intrigued by the potential to automate their high-volume, low-value tasks and will double their department’s technology spend by 2027, according to a prediction by Gartner. The legal technology landscape is evolving rapidly, largely due to the...
Salaries sink in April, reversing recent gains
The overall dismal economic environment has contributed to the average nominal take-home pay slipping further in April 2023, according to the monthly BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI). The number of salary payments has also fallen, signalling a troubled job...
Scientists warn of AI-triggered extinction
Scientists and academics are once again sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on our future, going as far as to suggest it might trigger human extinction. A new statement from the Centre for AI Safety calls for society to urgently take...
Ransomware drives professionalisation of cybercrime
The success of ransomware gangs has spurred a significant trend of professionalisation amongst cyber criminals where different groups develop specialised services to offer one another, according to a new report from WithSecure (formerly known as F-Secure Business)....
Major gangs’ shutdown impacted ransomware trends for 2023
Ransomware has been making headlines for the past several years. In their quest for profit, attackers have targeted almost every type of organisation, from healthcare and educational institutions to service providers and industrial enterprises, affecting nearly every...
Digital prepaid card usage to surge
The value of digital prepaid card transactions will exceed $3,98-trillion globally by 2028, up from $528,7--billion in 2023. A Juniper research study found that, by 2028, the value of digital prepaid card transactions will represent just under 60% of total prepaid...
Modest global growth for hardcopy peripherals
Worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals grew 2,2% year over year to 22,8-million units in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q23). Shipment value also expanded 14% year over year during the quarter to $11-billion, according to new data from the International Data...
Shanghai ranked as smartest city
A new study from Juniper Research has found that Shanghai is the leading smart city in 2023; ranked first for the second year in a row. The top five smart cities, as ranked by Juniper Research, are Shanghai, New York, Toronto, Seoul and Shenzhen. Juniper Research's...
BRICS skills Olympics applications open
The SA BRICS Business Council is looking for South Africa's best up-and-coming tech gurus to represent the country in the BRICS Future Skills Challenge. This year's future skills Olympics will help solve problems that BRICS (South Africa, Brazil, Russia, India and...
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Use Computer Security Day to strengthen resilience
All organisations should use Computer Security Day on 30 November 2017 as an opportunity to improve their ability to recover from disaster. This is according to Padma Naidoo, head: advisory services at ContinuitySA, who adds: "Computer Security Day was inaugurated in...
IoT drives business for the telco sector
The Internet of Things (IoT) started as a great marketing buzzword with the promise of business benefits and new services, much like cloud. In fact, the concept of connected edge peripherals, has been around for quite some time now, albeit mostly on a private network...
Secure the enterprise network with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) often throws up visions of a futuristic Earth, where self-aware robots are programmed to be ethical in their behaviour and protect human lives at all costs, writes Pieter Engelbrecht, business unit manager for HPE Aruba. It's clear that an...
Li-ion UPS batteries offer lower TCO
Schneider Electric aims to capitalise on its first-to-market advantage in lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries, as Bloomberg predicts big gains in data centre UPS systems. "Key to this growth is the lower total cost of ownership," explains Riaan de Leeuw, vice-president: IT...
Fuel finance decisions with data intelligence
As the world delves ever deeper into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, modern enterprises are forced to evolve their operational practices. With this digital transformation comes an onslaught of information, resulting in massive datasets and the responsibility to...
Free online courses from Cisco
Cisco has released seven free, self-enrol online courses to help South Africans to develop their digital skills, and has pledged to train an additional 100 000 students by 2020. Underpinned by the Cisco Networking Academy, which celebrates its 20th year in South...
Africa is not a data desert
The data age has opened up a world of renewed understanding in the ways we live and work, providing insights that hold the potential to improve lives for billions around the globe, writes Ben Leo, CEO of Fraym. The ability to collect and process vast numbers of data...
Cybersecurity is everyone’s business
The future of work very much revolves around the future of security, writes Brendan McAravey, country manager of Citrix South Africa. New ways of working offer exciting opportunities to boost employee productivity, creativity, and engagement, but they can't come at...
Focus on employees’ mental health
Heidi Duvenage, head of Sage Talent Solutions, believes that keeping an eye on mental health will help companies to have happy employees. There's a feed on Bored Panda showcasing photos that prove that depression "has no face". Hundreds of seemingly "ordinary" people...
The importance of trust
Trust is a must for professional accountants, writes Bongani Coka, CE of the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) A good reputation is hard to build, but can be destroyed overnight. This is particularly true of the accountancy and audit...
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