African CEOs see GenAI as key challenge, opportunity
Kathy Gibson reports – Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is seen as one of the top opportunities and risks for businesses in Africa. This is one of the headline findings of the inaugural KPMG Africa CEO Outlook, which finds that GenAI is seen as a useful tool...
Why it’s hard to safely deliver value from AI
A Gartner survey of 451 senior technology leaders in the second quarter of 2024, found that 57% of CIOs said they are tasked with leading an AI strategy in their enterprise. However, four emerging challenges are making it difficult for CIOs to deliver value with AI....
SA’s online threats spiked in October
The November Edition of Trellix's Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing for South Africa has shown a dip from around 2,6-million total files detected in August, to 2,4-million in September, before shooting back up, past the 2,7-million mark, in October. This top line...
Sustainable options to plug the energy deficit
In the wake of COP27, the 11th and final South Africa Economic Outlook report of 2022 from PwC focuses on opportunities and actions to improve power supply and energy sustainability in the country. Earlier this month, some PwC Africa leaders attended COP27 in Egypt...
Climate change: A pandemic we must collectively address now
During this year's COP27 in Egypt, world leaders have grappled over what must be done to curb global warming. Seven years ago, world leaders signed an international treaty to limit global warming to well below 2°C but, nonetheless, efforts remain insufficient to limit...
The consumer protection challenge facing mobile service providers
Mobile services today are considered both economically and socially important - which is why the more than 5-billion consumers that currently connect via these services require regulatory protection. A key challenge, however, has always been to provide the necessary...
Only 32% of employees believe their pay is fair
Less than a third of employees feel they are paid fairly, while just 34% of employees believe their pay is equitable, according to a new survey from Gartner. The Gartner survey of 3 523 employees in 2Q22 also found that that employees who perceive their pay as...
Top 5 crypto billionaires collectively lost $112bn this year
Crypto billionaires have seen their personal wealth plummet this year as the entire market suffered a $2-trillion wipe-out. The crash of the world`s second-largest crypto exchange, FTX, was an added disaster. But while FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried lost billions of dollars...
Global conditions to impact semiconductors
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is projected to decline 3,6% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, which says that in 2022, the market is on pace to grow 4% and total $618-billion. "The short-term outlook for semiconductor revenue has worsened," says...
AWS leverages Sapphire Rapids to up performance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the private preview of Amazon EC2 R7iz instances powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors - codenamed Sapphire Rapids. R7iz instances deliver an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.9 gigahertz and AWS claim up to 20%...
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Bi-modal IT: Finding the perfect harmony
As the concept of bimodal, or 'two-operations IT' gains traction, chief information officers (CIOs) are grappling with the dilemma of how to keep existing systems humming, while simultaneously developing the agility and innovation capability to respond to new business...
Skilling for the fourth industrial revolution
In South Africa, there are an estimated 829 800 positions for highly-skilled workers that need to be filled, says recruitment specialist Adcorp. Of these, Cisco estimates that 30 000 to 70 000 of these fall within the category of skilled technology workers. "These...
How SD-WAN helps you meet today’s business needs
As an increasing number of organisations migrate to the cloud, the gap between the needs and expectations of the business and IT's ability to deliver is growing, writes Wimpie van Rensburg, country manager: sub Saharan Africa at Riverbed Technology. With apps, data...
Malvertising: when advertising becomes dangerous
Over the last several months, the BBC, the New York Times, and other major news and commercial websites became victims of malvertising attacks, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, country manager of Check Point South Africa What exactly is malvertising? To understand this type...
Dell tackles remote workforce challenges
Dell has announced updates to the SonicWALL Secure Mobile Access (SMA) operating system (OS) that provide remote workers using smartphones, tablets or laptops - managed or unmanaged - with policy-enforced SSL VPN access to mission-critical applications, data and...
Deloitte Digital debuts the EnergyJourney
Deloitte Digital today announced the launch of its latest solution, the EnergyJourney, which enhances and sustains high levels of workforce engagement, strengthening the focus of employees and supports high levels of motivation, with direct bearing on business growth...
Former interns may be key to success
Employers have woken up to the potential of internship programmes as tools to not only give new jobseekers their first taste of the working environment, but also to find and mould employees that could have long and happy futures with the company. To ensure the success...
T-Systems releases Dynamic Unified Communications
Local organisations can now benefit from reduced communications costs and enhanced collaboration, with the release of T-Systems' cloud-based Dynamic Unified Communications solution. Dynamic Unified Communications (DUC) unites all communication channels into a single...
Don’t let merchandise out of your sight
Until recently, warehouses were seen as a separate entity in the overall supply chain; merely a repository for merchandise storage before it was moved onto its final destination. Now retailers and other businesses have realised that by integrating the warehouse and...
Empathy is the foundation of CXtended
According to Temkin Group, a leader in customer experience (CX) research, 2016 is "the year of emotion". "Our research shows that emotion is the component of customer experience that has the largest impact on loyalty, but it is also the area where companies are least...
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Full Stack Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
Leading online betting company seeks an experienced full stack developer. This is a permanent position with hybrid working 3 days in office and 2 days work from home. Company is based in Randburg. Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 6 years...
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