Geo-distributed businesses most at risk
Over one-third (39%) of geographically distributed companies in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region identify building and maintaining a cohesive IT infrastructure across multiple sites as their primary concern, according to a new Kaspersky survey. At the...
Nutanix and Dell collaborate on hybrid multicloud solutions
Nutanix has announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies aimed at accelerating customers' digital transformation journeys fueled by infrastructure modernisation and modern application development. Through this collaboration, joint customers will be able to...
Booster failure ends latest Blue Origin mission
The latest mission undertaken by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin was aborted after lift-off. The uncrewed New Shepard Mission NS-23 experienced a booster failure just a couple of minutes into the flight. According to the company, the escape system performed as it was...
Linx signs collaboration deal with NAPAfrica
The London Internet Exchange (Linx) has announced a strategic collaboration with African Internet Exchange Point, NAPAfrica. The partnership will mean networks currently connected and peering at NAPAfrica or Linx can access either of the exchanges via trusted and...
Nvidia Hopper sets AI inference records
In their debut on the MLPerf industry-standard AI benchmarks, Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs set world records in inference on all workloads, delivering up to 4,5-times more performance than previous-generation GPUs. Additionally, Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs and the...
AMD joins PyTorch foundation as founding member
AMD has announced it is joining the newly created PyTorch Foundation as a founding member. The foundation, which will be part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, will drive adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tooling by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of...
Global Internet bandwidth nudges 1Pbps mark
Global Internet bandwidth rose by 28% in 2022, now standing at 997Tbps, with a four-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29%. TeleGeography forecasts that the Pbps era will soon be underway, as its latest Global Internet Geography research tracks the continued...
Empowering women could help with cybersecurity skills crisis
South Africa is facing a continued shortage of critical skills. This shines a relentless light on the importance of empowering young people so they can connect with careers and futures that inspire them. In the cybersecurity space, this focus has never been more...
IBM LinuxONE servers help reduce energy consumption
IBM has unveiled the next generation of its LinuxONE server, a highly scalable Linux and Kubernetes-based platform, designed to deliver scalability to support thousands of workloads in the footprint of a single system. IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 features capabilities that...
60 years since the JF Kennedy Moonshot speech
It’s 60 years since US President John Kennedy made his famous “Moonshot” speech. On 12 September 1962, Kennedy addressed a crowd of 35 000 people at Rice University in Houston, recommitting the US to the Moon landing goal he proposed to Congress in May 1961. He...
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From backup as a service to DR as a service
While some companies acknowledge that they need disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS), many still think that backup as a service (BaaS) is sufficient to meet their data management needs, writes Iniel Dreyer, MD of Gabsten Technologies. Those that are convinced that...
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Commvault supports Red Hat Virtualization 4
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New Adabas & Natural 2050 agenda from Software AG
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IFS expands its partner network
IFS has appointed Kgosi Informatics of Botswana and iNENSA of Uganda as business partners in order to expand its reach in fast-growing markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. IFS will collaborate with the two companies to provide customers with enterprise resource planning...
Lakefield to benefit from fibre Internet
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Transforming tech without alienating customers
There's an undeniable shift to digital within the customer service environment, but companies implementing new strategies while neglecting existing customers' preferences do so at their own peril, writes Wynand Smit, CEO at INOVO. The biggest growth market among...
The Munching Mongoose wins in 702 Small Business Awards
The 702 Small Business Awards with Sage One has recognised organic and gourmet food retailer The Munching Mongoose as the winner for 2016. The runners-up were child and baby sleep consultancy, Good Night, and MzansiGas, an online gas and gas bottle delivery service....
Telkom to unveil 4.5G mobile technology at SATNAC
The wide range of technical topics to be discussed at Africa's leading ICT conference, SATNAC, will again take delegates deep into the future of the information technology sector. SATNAC, the annual Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications...
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