Credit squeeze spawns sharp spike in fraud
Businesses have experienced a noticeable spike in fraudulent activity - coupled with a significant increase in the value of fraudulent transactions, according to Debtsource credit application data. The context is that companies now rely more heavily on supplier credit...
Kaspersky discovers DinodasRAT Linux implant
Kaspersky has uncovered a new Linux-targeted DinodasRAT backdoor variant, actively compromising organisations in China, Taiwan, Turkiye, and Uzbekistan since at least October 2023. This variant allows cybercriminals to covertly monitor and control compromised systems,...
AMD unveils next-gen hardware and software roadmaps
AMD has outlined its strategy to deliver its next phase of growth driven by its expanded portfolio of high-performance and adaptive computing products spanning the data centre, embedded, client, and gaming markets. "From the cloud and PCs to communications and...
Higher ASPs drive campus switch growth
Worldwide campus switch sales were up 7% in the first quarter of 2022, according to new research from the Dell'Oro Group. The growth was broad-based across North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa and China, with North America accounting for more than half of the...
Dynamic inductive recharging could change the EV game
Dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) technology has been shown to wirelessly recharge electric vehicles (EVs) as they travel over specially equipped, dedicated road lanes, as demonstrated by Stellantis and partners at the Arena del Futuro in Italy. DWPT is a system...
NextGens challenge the status quo of family businesses
Growth is the lifeblood of any family business as it is essential to ensuring the business will continue to prosper for future generations. For the next generation of family business leaders, growth and sustainability go hand-in-hand. In new research from PwC Africa,...
Government IT spend set for 5% global growth
Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total $565,7-billion in 2022, an increase of 5% from 2021, according to Gartner. "The last few years of enduring pandemic challenges have mobilized a wave of digital transformation activities in government organisations...
Mobile-first comms empower a hybrid workforce
Organisations have shifted to hybrid work models and adopted new mobile communications strategies due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Evaluating Mobile Communications Solutions for the Hybrid Workforce, finds that companies'...
Pressure to improve ESG drives increased spend in business services
Organisations face mounting pressures to improve and document their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Because the initial steps to a sustainable transformation can be daunting to firms that have not attempted anything similar in the past,...
Vantage secures solar energy for Joburg data centre
Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica to supplement the local grid that powers the company's Johannesburg (JNB1) data centere campus scheduled to...
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NVR platforms drives move away from Windows
IP Video Solutions, a distributor specialising in IP-video surveillance software, hardware and systems, says that the trend towards dedicated Network Video Recorder (NVR) platforms is continuing. Max de Lorm, director of IPVS, says that this has resulted in a...
Huawei Cloud OS gains Suse certification
Huawei's open cloud operating system (OS) FusionSphere passed the Suse Yes Certified test. As a cloud computing software product, Huawei OpenStack-based FusionSphere is compatible with diversified servers, storage systems, and mainstream virtualization platforms as...
Veeam introduces Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure
Veeam Software has announced Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure, available for preview as a free, pre-configured Azure appliance in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace that delivers cloud restore for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Endpoint Backup. Available now,...
Airtel Zambia chooses Ericsson for network transformation
Ericsson has extended its partnership with Airtel Zambia, headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia, with a new contract covering the transformation of Airtel's radio access network (RAN) infrastructure in every major region of Zambia. This extended partnership will both...
Microsoft launches Office Excel Champs SA competition
Microsoft South Africa has launched the Office Excel Champs competition, which aims to find the country’s greatest Excel practitioner, whether he or she is a student, teacher, business professional or simply loves crunching numbers for fun. “There have been many...
SUSE, CTU in open source training partnership
Enterprise Linux solutions provider, SUSE South Africa, has entered into a strategic partnership with CTU Training Solutions that will see the institution provide training based on the current SUSE certification programme. This includes Certified Linux Administrator,...
Students play their way to the top …
An exciting new career sector – gaming - has been quietly growing in the country in the past few years, and has now taken off with gusto as heavyweight degree courses come onto the market to provide professionals for the industry. While in the past gamers were mostly...
VoIP proves low cost can be high function
South African telecoms consumers today are so spoilt for choice that it is easy to forget a time when we had a choice of two cellular network operators and one fixed line operator. After the opening up several years ago of the telecoms sector to literally dozens of...
What are the cyber-threats in the financial sector?
Cyber threats can be broadly categorised as either a Computer Network Attack (CNA) - aiming for the disruption, degradation or destruction of information and systems; or Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) - which focuses on accessing, stealing and exploiting...
Omni-channel do’s and don’ts
With more customers owning smart mobile devices, companies are facing an ever increasing need to communicate and respond to customers using channels, other than a simple voice call. While voice is still the preferred channel, most call centers are also expected to...
Developer – Back-End (Senior) at Parvana Recruitment
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Senior Front-End Developer – Western Cape Somerset West
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Carpentry – Design and Project Manager at Square 1 Recruitment – Gauteng Fontainebleau
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Senior Business Analyst – Western Cape Woodstock
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Our client, a prominent IT and data center infrastructure provider headquartered in Bryanston, Johannesburg, is seeking a skilled and visionary Data Center Solutions Architect to join their dynamic team. Renowned for their commitment to delivering cutting-edge...
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Junior IT Technician – Cape Town
Qualifications: This person should have done some form of IT training course (6 months - 1 year) and understand the basics around PCs, laptops, printers, etc. It would be preferable that this person also has some basic networking and internet related experience.Job...
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