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The cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) market reached nearly $700-million in 2Q 2024 - achieving an impressive 42% year-over-year growth – according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. This acceleration reflects enterprises' focus on securing cloud...
New SteelFox malware targets popular software
Kaspersky experts have uncovered a new and ongoing malicious campaign that exploits popular software such as Foxit PDF Editor, AutoCAD, and JetBrains. The attackers employ stealer malware to capture victims' credit card information and details about their infected...
NASA space missions pinpoint sources of CO2 emissions on Earth
A duo of Earth-observing missions has enabled researchers to detect and track carbon dioxide (CO2) emission changes from a single facility, using the world’s fifth-largest coal-fired power plant as a test case. In the recent study, researchers used space-based...
Insurers shift focus to customer experience, operational efficiency
Improving the customer experience and operational excellence, not growth, is the driving force of a majority of insurance digitalization initiatives in 2023, according to a new Gartner survey of insurance CIOs and technology executives. The 2023 Gartner CIO and...
Privacy predictions for 2023
This year we will witness the formation of an even more diverse market for behaviour tracking due to local law enforcement. Moreover, smartphones will take over traditional paperwork and the idea of a metaverse will become part of our reality. These are excerpts from...
Intel data centre processors drive next-gen innovations
Dubbing it one of the most important product launches in its history, Intel has unveiled its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), the Intel Xeon CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel Data Centre GPU Max Series...
AI efficiency meets sustainability
Accelerated Nvidia Hopper systems with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors -- including Nvidia DGX H100 and 60+ systems from Nvidia partners -- provide 25-times more efficiency than traditional data centre servers to save big on energy costs. AI is at the heart of...
PC shipment slump continues, recovery not likely this year
Global shipments for traditional PCs fell below expectations in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) as 67,2-million PCs were shipped, down 28,1% from the prior year, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
BETI is back on track
Ending the year positively, the BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI) for December 2022 improved despite the ongoing, dismal economic context. "After six consecutive months of declines, the BETI rose to an index level of 132.1 in December, almost on par...
CFOs need to rethink the finance function
Evaluating finance function strategy, scope and design is the top priority for chief financial officers (CFOs) in 2023, according to a survey by Gartner. A survey of 157 CFOs in November 2022 ranked the top 10 priorities for CFOs for this year, and 90% of respondents...
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A success story of offline and online tutoring
South Africa's largest tutoring company this month reached a milestone by signing up its 10 000th learner, and clocking more than 150 000 tutoring lessons. That's good going for an idea that was shot down by a university professor as being doomed to failure, when its...
Big data: a secret weapon for SMEs?
According to Forbes magazine, 89% of business leaders believe big data will revolutionise business operations in the same way the Internet did. Naturally this does not only refer to big business, as small and medium sized companies are becoming more significant daily....
Curb unethical behaviour in a tough economic climate
Times are tougher, with the weak rand, rising cost of fuel and food coupled with the overall inflation meaning that many South Africans face ongoing financial stress. Such weak economic conditions can lead to an increase in unethical behaviour, conflict of interest,...
The most common reasons for corporate data loss
There is no doubt that one of the main assets of a company is the data it stores. Information about its customers, financial or employee planning, among other types of records, should be adequately protected and available whenever they are needed. For this reason,...
NASA protects critical data with NetApp
AltaVault enables NASA to protect mission-critical data, optimise cloud footprint and drive down cost. "With one of the largest cloud footprints of any U.S. federal government agency, NASA had very specific requirements for how to support its backup to the cloud...
Orange completes Airtel Burkina Faso acquisition
Orange, together with its subsidiary Orange Côte d'Ivoire, has completed the acquisition of 100% of the mobile operator Airtel in Burkina Faso. Since the signature of an agreement with Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) in January 2016, Orange has obtained all...
Fitbit helps to manage a better sleep
Fitbit has released a simple yet powerful set of sleep tools to help users improve their sleep consistency and overall health. Sleep plays a critical role in health and wellbeing, from protecting against cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, to boosting...
Evolving to bimodal IT: become agile, stay stable
One of the tell-tale signs of ICT evolution within emerging markets is the advent of bimodal IT, or the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery - one focused on stability, the other on agility. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 75% of IT...
Business success through smarter HR
Attracting and retaining the best talent is widely recognised to be an important success factor, if not the success factor, when it comes to achieving competitive advantage. "Unfortunately, too many companies continue to rely on poor information when it comes to...
Beyond data towards insight
Big data has redefined our world. It's constant and rapid flow originates from a wide variety of sources and has allowed the opportunity for organisations to access greater intelligence, writes Mark Heymann, senior director: commercial at TransUnion. Organisations,...
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