Discovery Bank analyses festive spending
Discovery Bank has released an analysis of its client transaction data during December 2024, highlighting interesting festive spend behaviours. Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank, comments: “The December holiday period is known as a time of increased spending. So...
Hackers shut down SA Weather Service
The South African Weather Services (SAWS) web site (weathersa.co.za) is still down following a cyberattack on the weekend. The agency says its systems went down on Sunday evening (26 January 2025) following a security breach. This was the second attempt in two days,...
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...
Kaspersky warns of increased IT supply chain attacks
Kaspersky has announced the discovery of a series of attacks by a new malware supposedly developed by the infamous OilRig Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group that has been active in the Middle East and Turkiye for over a decade. The group is known for targeting...
Megatrends changing the future of travel
The future of travel is set to be transformed by a range of powerful megatrends from emerging technologies to societal and economic trends, writes Gustavo Pina, director of SITA Lab - and to adapt to this rapidly changing landscape, airports and airlines must act now...
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Cisco, IBM speed digital and cloud transformation
Cisco and IBM have announced new solutions for VersaStack, converged infrastructure jointly developed by the two companies. VersaStack helps organisations reduce complexity and automate processes to accelerate the delivery of applications. The additional technologies...
Weaponised IoT attacks: what does the future hold?
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How to be successful with IoT and big data in the cloud
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SAP Hana helps Kenyan telco thrive
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Direct Pay Online Group expands into Botswana, Namibia
The Direct Pay Online Group, (DPO Group is acquiring 100% of the equity in Virtual Card Service (VCS) in Botswana and Namibia. This will be closely followed by the acquisition of 100% of VCS business in South Africa. VCS was established in South Africa in 1996 and...
Commvault partners with Pure Storage
Commvault is integrating its Commvault Data Platform and IntelliSnap technology for FlashStack, a flexible, converged infrastructure solution offered jointly by Cisco and Pure Storage. By providing the data protection layer for FlashStack with IntelliSnap integration,...
Lasetu to buy up 51% of AppCentrix
AppCentrix, a managed services company in the monitoring and analytics as a discipline (MaaD) space, has announced that Lasetu Trading and Projects will procure a 51% shareholding in its business. The deal is in line with the revised ICT sector B-BBEE codes gazetted...
MTN unveils revamped online music platform
MTN has unveiled its revamped online music platform, MTN Music+, which offers a couple of first to market functionalities. Maxwell Nonge, chief digital officer at MTN SA, comments: "The revamped Music+ strengthens our focus on developing local content and contributing...
One Channel partners with Acronis
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Consol goes ‘#Un-Outsource’ with T-Systems
Consol Glass has renewed its IT and cloud services contracts with T-Systems. T-Systems recently launched its Un-Outsource contract, a contract which effectively gives customers the freedom to leave at any time should they encounter a "severity 1" outage, or network...
Senior Software Engineer – Automation Tester – Gauteng Randburg
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 – Gauteng Centurion
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