Equinix adds to mushrooming SA data centres
Nasdaq-listed digital infrastructure company, Equinix, has opened its first international business exchange (IBX) data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa – JN1 – which it says is a key facility within its global network. Equinix says that the JN1 site is in a...
Digitisation, cloud is improving business outcomes
Kathy Gibson reports – South African organisations are increasingly using cloud services to unlock opportunities and improve business outcomes. Pandelani Munyai, group CIO of Transnet, explains that key considerations when adopting cloud included improved security and...
Most finance organisations will invest in composable applications
Chief financial officers (CFOs) who adopt a composable technology strategy will achieve higher revenue growth than peers who take more traditional routes with their technology investments, according to Gartner. By 2024, 60% of finance organisations will seek...
Sub-Saharan Africa 5G subscriptions set to reach 150m by 2028
The November 2022 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report projects that 5G subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa will grow from 7-million in 2022 to 150-million by the end of 2028, accounting for 14% of total connections at that time. In sub-Saharan Africa, 2G...
Open visa policies improve across Africa
The 2022 Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) report shows African countries making progress in their freedom of travel policies, most of which had been severely curtailed by the Covid-19 crisis. The annual publication, prepared by the African Development Bank Group in...
Cyber, ESG risks are driving more lawsuits
Which are the main factors driving the possibility that a company and its board of directors may be sued by investors or other stakeholder groups in 2023? A poor financial performance or even insolvency amid economic uncertainty and the prospect of a global recession,...
30 years on, SMS popularity is still growing
Despite the rise of new communication channels, Short Message Service (SMS) remains popular, with a 75% increase in use in 2022 compared to 2021. This is among the findings from an Infobip study marking 30 years after a software programmer sent the first message on 3...
Vodacom acquires majority interest in Vodafone Egypt
Vodacom Group has acquired a 55% interest in Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications from Vodafone Europe and Vodafone International Holdings, both indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Vodafone Group. The acquisition was first proposed in January 2022, and all suspensive...
SA among top countries losing money to data breaches
New research has revealed the top 10 countries losing the most money to data breaches - and South Africa features in 10th place with an average data breach cost of $3 210 000. A study by Proxyrack looked into the countries and industries losing the most money to data...
Targeted ransomware doubled in 2022
During the first 10 months of 2022, the proportion of users attacked by targeted ransomware has almost doubled compared to the same period of 2021. Such a striking growth indicates that ransomware gangs have continued mastering their techniques - the infamous ones as...
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Raising awareness of cloud security in SA
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International business risk set to increase
Take heed: the risk inherent in doing international business is about to increase, write Willem Janse van Rensburg and Alecia Pienaar from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. The UK's proposed extension of "failure-to-prevent" offences to include economic crimes coupled with the...
Give employees reasons to stick around
Winning over and retaining the best talent has never easy, but employers today are finding it harder than ever to find people with the right skills to fill key vacancies, writes Ronnie Toerien, Oracle ECEMEA spokesperson for human capital management. If businesses are...
The business case for gamification
Over the past several years, gamification, the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate people, has found its way into the corporate lexicon, with companies scrambling to 'gamify' elements of their business - both internally...
IT as energy: changing the outsource debate
Information Technology (IT) as energy is not a new concept but has been spoken about in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It is the analogy were IT services can be regarded in a similar light to energy, writes AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: data centre services at...
How to run successful load tests
Load testing is instrumental to any web or mobile presence, whether it is e-commerce, bookings, media, governmental or something else - a modern ambitious enterprise needs to have the highest possible web performance standards. But how do you carry out a successful...
Zambian programme achieves hunger alleviation
Programmes designed to alleviate hunger and increase food supply through cash transfers to some of Zambia's poorest families achieved those goals and more, final evaluations conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) revealed. Overall, researchers found...
Simplifying payments to do better business
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SpeedCast integrates with Inmarsat Fleet Xpress
SpeedCast International, a global satellite communications and network service provider, has announced that Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress service is now commercially available as part of its global Maritime Satellite Services portfolio. Thenew service will be offered...
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