HPE plans to go after Mike Lynch’s estate for $4bn
HPE is not giving up on its claim against Mike Lynch, the Autonomy founder who died last month when his yacht sank. The company says it will continue to pursue a claim of up to $4-billion in civil fraud damages from Lynch’s estate. Lynch had been acquitted of fraud...
Africa well positioned for energy transition
Kathy Gibson reports – The last 25 years have seen some major global changes, not least in the area of energy and the technology that goes into its provision and distribution. On a visit to the company’s South African offices last week, Schneider Electric chairperson...
Healthy growth forecast for public cloud revenue
The public cloud market is witnessing healthy growth, according to new research from SafeBettingSites.com, and is expected to earn $398-billion in revenue in 2022 - a 20% year-on-year increase. According to the data provided by Statista, the public cloud market is...
eCommerce fraud on the rise
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total cost of ecommerce fraud to merchants will exceed $48-billion globally in 2023, from just over $41-billion in 2022. It predicts that this growth will be accelerated by the increasing use of alternative payment...
Avaya reaffirms faith in SA market
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - South Africa is a key market for Avaya, which counts the country's top organisations among its customers. Nidal Abou-Ltaif, president of Avaya International, tells IT-Online that customers are bullish about the future, as they look...
IoT: focus on the outcomes
While many believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) as a network of technology solutions can solve several real-world problems, the adoption thereof in Africa has been limited to a handful of industries to date and it has been slower than anticipated. According to...
Investment in digital transformation critical to remain relevant
With IT enmeshed in every facet of a business, CIOs believe that their organisations must continue to invest in digital transformation to remain relevant. At the same time, the role of the CIO has become increasingly important within a business, with CIOs being asked...
We need to act now to stop AI from deepening inequities
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a reality in business and society, but we should be doing more to ensure whole sections of the planet's population are not left behind or marginalised as it becomes mainstream. Maya...
September’s ‘Most Wanted’ malware
Check Point Research (CPR) has published its latest Global Threat Index for September 2022 which indicates that while Formbook is still the most prevalent malware - impacting 3% of organisations worldwide - Vidar is now in eighth position, up seven places from August....
Contact centres take CX into the future
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - As the business landscape shifts, the contact centre is becoming more important to businesses looking to leverage cloud computing and advanced analytics to redefine the customer experience they offer. Todd Zerbe, senior...
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New SA country head for Zazoo
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Enjoy home cinema picture quality with Epson laser projector
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MWeb, LG partner on Fibre House
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Eurotech, Red Hat simplify IoT
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Integrated security key for sophisticated attacks
South African companies need to automate and integrate their IT security solutions to meet increasingly sophisticated threats, writes Intel Security's Trevor Coetzee. The trends and threats encountered by South African companies are largely those of our global...
Digital business needs software-defined data centres
Global big data revenues are expected to grow to just under $38-billion and cloud computing service revenues to more than $4-billion in 2016 resulting in local companies rethinking their data centre strategies. Matthew Lee, Regional Manager for Africa at SUSE, looks...
Western Digital expands hard drives and external storage
Western Digital has announced the expansion of its award-winning portfolio of performance storage solutions with 8TB capacity drives for NAS, video surveillance and desktop external applications. Increasingly centralised, rich-content, which continues to grow in...
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Python Developer
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Field Support Engineer
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