Public cloud to hit $1trn by 2026
The public cloud industry has experienced explosive growth over the years, as billions worldwide rely on cloud storage to manage and safeguard their data. Since 2020, the sector has nearly tripled and is set to reach a remarkable $934-billion value in 2025, 20% more...
When IT cost optimisation fuels innovation, ROI improves
There is a significant opportunity for companies of all sizes - but in particular for those with revenue between $500-million and $5-billion - to optimise their IT costs and surge ahead in innovation. SoftwareOne Holding’s “Driving Business Outcomes through...
Webb snaps detailed image of actively forming stars
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the "antics" of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes in the featured image until you...
Macroeconomic, geopolitical conditions pose severe risks
With the world facing growing economic instability and political tensions, volatility in geoeconomic and geopolitical relations between major economies are likely to result in global upheavals over the next six months, according to a new survey of the World Economic...
Intel adds AI reference kits
Intel now offers a set of 34 open source AI reference kits to the community, the result of a years-long collaboration with Accenture, enabling developers and data scientists to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) faster and more easily. Each kit includes model code,...
IaaS cloud networking starting to gain in importance
The importance of networking to and within cloud environments has grown significantly for enterprise customers as more and more applications, workloads, and data are moved to the cloud, with IDC estimating that worldwide revenue for public cloud-based infrastructure...
Curro about to set local robotics on fire
Curro Durbanville High School will help ignite National Science Week when it hosts the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Western Cape Regional competition next weekend (Saturday 5 August). Teams of learners from different schools across the province are set to take part in...
Ransomware attacks on the increase in SA
While the beginning of 2023 saw a decline in the number of ransomware attacks in Q2, some regions saw an upward trend - with South Africa experiencing a 10% increase in attempts on individual and corporate users, according to Kaspersky Security Network data....
Vodacom hits back at battery thieves
Battery theft has become a top concern among mobile network operators given that their ability to deliver on their uptime customer promises depends on back-up power supply that batteries provide during power outages at mobile base stations. However, network providers...
Popular iWeek conference back next year
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit - and by popular demand! - the South African Internet industry's iWeek conference is back. Hosted by the ZA Network Operators Group (ZANOG) and Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA), the event will be...
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Carriers can grow by improving CX
Huawei has called on telecom carriers in Africa to focus on providing customers with a great user experience to achieve new value-driven growth. Paul Michael Scanlan, chief technology officer of Huawei's Carrier Network Business Group, made the appeal in his keynote...
Deep-water installation starts on SACS
South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), the first submarine cable system across the South Atlantic is in the final stretch of its installation between Africa and South America. Angola Cables, the company overseeing installation and the operations of SACS, and NEC, a...
Cambium Networks enhances MSP solution
Cambium Networks has announced new solutions for managed service providers (MSPs). "MSPs design and operate WiFi connectivity in offices and school districts and in hospitality and retail locations," says Drew Lentz, co-founder of Frontera Consulting. "MSPs need...
New revenue opportunities for African telcos
Although Africa's largest telco operators are generally showing growth in their customer bases, it is public knowledge that revenue growth has somewhat stalled to as little as 1% year on year. This means that despite attracting an increased number of customers, the...
How trustworthy are local data backup providers?
Data is essential to the smooth operation of any business, and the protection and backing up of that data is just as critical. Most organisations have -- or should have - a data protection and business continuity policy in place. However, this needs to be underpinned...
Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro and Porsche arrive in SA
Huawei has launched is Huawei Mate 10 Pro and Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 in South Africa. The AI phones that combine new hardware, the Kirin 970 chipset and a simplified EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0. "As we enter the age of intelligence, AI is no longer a virtual...
Altron partners with Tango Telecom
JSE-listed Allied Technologies (Altron) and Ireland-based Tango Telecom, a provider of data monetisation solutions, today announced a partnership to launch Data Retail Engine (Tango DRE) in Africa. Tango DRE enables African mobile operators to quickly launch and...
Orange adds SA PoPs
Orange has opened two very large-capacity IP and IPX Points of Presence (PoP) in South Africa. The facilities, which are located in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa are operational from today and will enhance Internet and mobile connectivity in the region by...
Hetzner breach exposes need for cyber insurance
Last week, one of SA's largest hosting companies, Hetzner, was hacked, exposing hundreds of thousands of FTP passwords, domain names and bank account details, with the exception of credit card information. This has left South African organisations vulnerable to bad...
African startups start XL residency
Twenty of the most promising African digital start-ups will take part in the XL Africa residency, the flagship initiative of the business accelerator launched last April by the World Bank Group's infoDev program. From 6 to 17 November in Cape Town, the entrepreneurs...
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