HPC hardware market set for sustained growth
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Retail brands embrace AI, drive surge in spending
Retail and consumer product executives are dramatically shifting their focus toward artificial intelligence (AI), with a new global study from the IBM Institute for Business Value indicating that participants’ project spending outside of traditional IT operations...
Beware scammers feeding on Africa’s crypto craze
Cryptocurrency has become incredibly popular in Africa and, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), transactions hit $20-billion a month from as early as 2021. But its popularity as an alternative route to financial stability, investments, and payments has...
FNB on the hunt for young entrepreneurs
Entries for the second year of the FNB Youth Start-up Accelerator (YSA) programme - in partnership with Fetola - are now open. The programme provides mentorship, training, and support to young, committed, first-time entrepreneurs. The YSA programme is a fresh,...
Structured data management still driving enterprise storage market
Structured databases/data management continued driving the largest share of enterprise IT infrastructure spending in the second half of 2022 (2H22), says International Data Corporation (IDC), which adds that organisations spent $7,6-billion on compute and storage...
Government agencies come under attack
The first quarter of 2023 has already seen 32 significant cyberattacks on government agencies, according to data from Surfshark. A significant nine of these were reported to be cyber espionage - nearly as many as during the whole of 2022. Yearly tendencies show that...
Caught in the act: astronomers spot a star devouring a planet
A new study published online Wednesday, May 3, in the journal Nature documents the first observation of an aging star swallowing a planet. After running out of fuel in its core, the star began to grow in size, shrinking the gap with its neighboring planet, eventually...
Renewable energy market set to boom
The global renewable energy market size is expected to reach $3,60-trillion by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 16,9% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Numerous governments across the world have framed various regulations to reduce...
Tablet shipments return to pre-pandemic levels
Worldwide tablet shipments posted a decline of 19,1% YoY in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q23), totaling 30,7-million units - comparable to pre-pandemic levels - according to International Data Corporation's latest Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker....
Spending on telecoms, pay TV services speeding up
Worldwide spending on telecom services and pay TV services reached $1,478-billion in 2022, increasing by 2,2% YoY, according to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker, which expects global spending on these services will increase by 2% next year and...
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Check Point unveils WannaCry infection map
Check Point Software Technologies shows the extent of the wide spread outbreak of international ransomware WannaCry with a new Check Point WannaCry Ransomware Infection Map. Check Point researchers have been investigating the ransomware campaign in detail since it was...
WannaCry proves businesses still painfully unaware of security risks
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Ecobank, OiLibya to distribute digital financial services
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Western Cape Government accelerates digitisation
The Western Cape Government has confirmed a new three-year Enterprise Information Management (EIM) agreement with Datacentrix. The agreement now spans dozens of different departments, covering over 20 000 end users in total, and touching the lives of millions of South...
Veeam offers new availability solutions
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Rwanda pioneers smart city with SRG and Nokia
Nokia and SRG will collaborate with the Government of Rwanda to deploy Smart City technology to improve the lifestyle and social sustainability of its citizens in 2017. This announcement was made last week in Kigali during the Transform Africa Summit. “Nokia is a...
WannaCryptor: key questions answered
WannaCryptor, aka WannaCry, is one of the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2017. In fact, you could go as far as to suggest one of the biggest in years. Since news first broke on Friday, broadcasters, journalists, bloggers, commentators, experts and security vendors,...
WannaCry update, guidance from Microsoft
Microsoft has issued the following alert to provide guidance regarding malware variously named WannaCrypt, WannaCry, WannaCryptor, or Wcry. On May 12, 2017, many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious...
Possible connections between WannaCry and Lazarus Group
On Monday, 15 May, a security researcher from Google posted an artefact on Twitter potentially pointing at a connection between the WannaCry ransomware attacks that recently hit thousands of organisations and private users around the world, and the malware attributed...
Consolidation Reporting Analyst (Contract) (CPT Hybrid)
ENVIRONMENT:YOUR strong experience with ERP systems, in-depth financial reporting knowledge, and proven track record of managing the financial consolidation process in a global, multi-entity environment as a Consolidation Reporting Analyst is sought by a dynamic...
Senior ABAP Developer (hybrid contract) 0759 (TB)
Play a technical solution architect role for all change requests. Mediate between developers and functional team members and will engage directly with product owner(s) and external partner feature team(s) for the respective projects/maintenance/operations...
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Consolidation Reporting Analyst (Contract) (CPT Hybrid) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:YOUR strong experience with ERP systems, in-depth financial reporting knowledge, and proven track record of managing the financial consolidation process in a global, multi-entity environment as a Consolidation Reporting Analyst is sought by a dynamic...
Senior ABAP Developer (hybrid contract) 0759 (TB) – Gauteng Midrand
Play a technical solution architect role for all change requests. Mediate between developers and functional team members and will engage directly with product owner(s) and external partner feature team(s) for the respective projects/maintenance/operations...
Network Security Specialist – Gauteng Johannesburg
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About our client:Our client, established in the 90's and headquartered in Cape Town, has a global presence with over 500 employees. They are a diverse team of brilliant knowledge workers. The best and brightest engineers, developers and specialists within finance, HR,...
Senior Software Engineer – Automation Tester
Purpose of the Position:Identify defects and flaws during the software development process. Create effective and repeatable automated test cases to save time in the testing process. Ensure product and features are delivered to specification with minimal negative...
Senior Network Engineer
Role: Senior Network EngineerLocation: Centurion - role will be hybrid after the first 4-6 months (depending on how quickly your training on the systems go)Our client is a leading ICT company who are dedicated to providing innovative ICT solutions to their clients....
IT Administrator at Parvana Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
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