Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

Network to the fore as agentic AI adoption takes off

In the era of agentic AI, the network is becoming the critical foundation for trust, security and the seamless operating models through which people and AI can build the future. However, as organisations move quickly to gain an advantage from AI, a significant gap has...

Poor security awareness drives risk up

Fortinet has released its annual 2024 Security Awareness and Training Global Research Report which highlights the crucial role a cyber-aware workforce plays in managing and mitigating organisational risk. “As threat actors harness new technologies like AI to augment...

Southern Africa a hotspot for cyberthreats

There has been a continued increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks across southern Africa, marking the region as a growing hotspot for cyberthreats, according to Netscout’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report for the first half of the year. This trend is...

More innovative ransomware, credential theft emerge

The cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for would-be attackers, with nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime removed through the expansion of cybercrime-as-a-service. This is according to Sophos’s 2023...

Digital twin of global weather conditions could improve forecasts

Lockheed Martin and Nvidia have announced a collaboration to build a Earth Observations digital twin powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that will provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with an efficient and centralised approach to...

Chat apps are taking over customer communications

Chat apps such as WhatsApp are becoming crucial channels for customer communications, demonstrating the growing importance of conversational experiences. Research from Infobip shows an 80% and 62% increase in WhatsApp and rich communication services (RCS) interactions...

VR tech finds a second home in rehab

Penumbra has launched its REAL y-Series hands- and tether-free VR rehabilitation platform to address both upper and lower extremities with a full body avatar. James Spencer, data scientist at GlobalData, comments: “Virtual reality (VR) has always looked like an answer...

Cryptojacking malware soars

After recent turbulence in the crypto market, Atlas VPN has found that new modifications of cryptojacking software - used in the act of hijacking a computer and using it to mine digital assets against the user's will - grew 3,8-times in Q3 2022. As many as 153 000 new...

European households embrace smart electricity meters

More than 56% of the electricity customers in EU27+3 had a smart meter at the end of 2022. The market is set for robust growth in the coming years with a total of 106-million smart electricity meters forecasted to be deployed across the region during 2022–2027. There...

Flat confidence not showing the whole story

After dipping from 42 to 39 in the third quarter, the RMB/BER business confidence index (BCI) slipped to 38 in the final quarter of 2022 - so more than six out of 10 respondents remained unsatisfied with prevailing business conditions. Although the BCI was little...

What the future of CX will look like

As we move beyond Covid-driven restrictions, IDC's Future of Customer Experience predictions for 2023 reflect how B2B and B2C businesses must confront a new set of macroeconomic challenges – inflation, global economic instability, and flattening customer growth –...

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Smile adds services in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda

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Bytes Universal Systems, Teradata host Innovation Forum

Bytes Universal Systems (BUS), the exclusive southern African distributor for global analytic data platforms, marketing and analytic applications company Teradata, hosted an Innovation Forum in Johannesburg, titled "Data changes everything". "The forum provided an...

Yahsat explores African partnerships

UAE-based satellite operator Yahsat has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the possibility of new joint opportunities with existing partner, IEC Telecom Group (IEC Telecom) in Africa. The agreement comes ahead of Yahsat taking delivery of its third...

How businesses can transition to the digital era

The digital era is well and truly upon us, but it seems that many businesses are struggling to adapt to this change. Many businesses are failing to understand these new technologies and the positive changes they can bring to the table, writes Martin Walshaw, senior...

Make technology work for you

No one buys technology just for the sake of technology. If that were the case, we might all have pockets full of silicon chips instead of smartphones. To have value, technology has to help people achieve more. It has to make life easier, writes Neil Cameron, GM of...

How cloud can help you run a better business

SME owners today are busy, tech-savvy and under enormous pressure to drive profits and revenues - that's why they need software ready to take advantage of the latest technology trends. It is these entrepreneurs who are the drivers of prosperity and it is their...

New security platform from Arbor Networks

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Cisco debuts enhanced NFV solution

Cisco has introduced its NFV Infrastructure Solution (NFVI), combining virtual and physical environments, and providing all the necessary compute, storage, and networking infrastructure to run NFV network services. The new NFV Infrastructure complements existing...

Green means go for Hotel Verde and Datacentrix

Datacentrix has been helping keep the lights on (and off) - literally - at Hotel Verde, South Africa's greenest hotel and the first hotel in Africa to offer carbon-neutral accommodation and conferencing. Hotel Verde was built to be as sustainable as possible from the...

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