SideWinder APT group strikes in MEA region
The SideWinder APT group is expanding its attack operations into the Middle East and Africa utilising a previously unknown espionage toolkit called “StealerBot”, says Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT). As part of its ongoing monitoring of APT...
Concerns raised over AI model training
The South African Artificial Intelligence Association (SAAIA) - an industry body focused on promoting the advancement of responsible AI in South Africa - has made a submission to the Information Regulator of South Africa around the use of data to train AI Models for...
Municipalities have key role to play in resolving the energy supply gap
South Africa’s energy shortage is having a profound impact on its cities. Economic growth and jobs continue to be affected at a time when cities urgently need to recover from the Covid-19 crisis to retain their competitiveness and attractiveness. Craig Kesson, PwC...
IT leaders increase protection for SaaS workloads
Companies are recognising the increasing need to protect their SaaS environments, according to Veeam Software’s new Cloud Protection Trends Report 2023. For example, nearly 90% of Microsoft 365 customers surveyed use supplemental measures rather than relying solely on...
Women shouldn’t be held accountable for closing the gender gap
According to research conducted by the World Economic Forum, it will take 98 years to close the gender parity gap in sub-Saharan Africa, and more than 130 years to achieve this goal globally. What’s more, with 2022 giving way to a range multi-layered and compounding...
Lenovo maintains PC market leadership
Lenovo Group has announced its second quarter results, with profitability improving year-on-year for the 10th consecutive quarter. During the quarter, Lenovo Southern Africa dominated the local PC market with a 24,8% market share and experienced business performance...
MTN Group, Microsoft in strategic African alliance
MTN Group and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance agreement to accelerate digital and cloud transformation working towards a shared vision of driving Africa’s growth. The agreement is in support of MTN’s strategic intent of leading digital solutions for...
Elon Musk sticks to his guns on $8 blue tick fee
Elon Musk, the new owner is sticking to his guns that users pay an $8 fee to have a blue tick that verifies their account. This is according to Musk in tweets, rather than an official stance by the company. But insiders reveal that developers have been told to...
Watch Pat Gelsinger and Linus Torvalds talk open source
At Intel Innovation 2022, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the “godfather of open source” who created the Linux operating system. Their wide-ranging conversation covered the beginning of Linux, Torvalds’ advice for Intel and why he chose a penguin...
Make your voice heard in the Channelwise Awards survey
Voting in the Channelwise Awards survey has been extended to midnight on 11 November. The Channelwise Awards give the nation’s resellers the opportunity to vote for the vendors and distributors they feel went the extra mile for them during the past year. The survey...
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Dell makes waves in open networking
Dell has extended its reach in open networking with the announcement of Operating System 10 (OS10) from Dell Networking. This next-generation networking software is designed to introduce new levels of software flexibility and programmability in large-scale data centre...
What will it take for the bricks and mortar store to survive?
A digital customer experience revolution will rejuvenate bricks-and-mortar retailing, but stores must start on the back foot, writes Pieter Engelbrecht, regional manager: sub-Saharan Africa at Aruba Networks. The retail model of the future will be a radically...
Viber opens up Public Chats in Middle East, Africa
Viber, one of the leading messaging and calling apps with more than 664-million users worldwide, has opened its latest social channel Public Chats' to partners in Africa and the Middle East. Brands, organisations, celebrities, public figures and social influencers...
HDS launches flash solutions for next-gen systems
The emerging wave of next generation applications require that data centres be incredibly responsive, agile, accessible and automated. The only way to keep up with business needs is to adopt a software-defined approach to infrastructure accelerated by flash...
Facebook, Merck join African healthcare initiative
Facebook and Merck are supporting I Care 4 Africa, an initiative between a Silicon Valley=based NGO and a Ghana based incubator to catalyze the current healthcare system in Africa. California-based Hack for Big Choices and Ghana-based, Impact Hub Accra teamed up to...
Africa: lucrative, but not for sissies
Africa, with the highest concentration of high growth and rapidly emerging markets in the world, presents huge potential growth opportunities. But it's not a market for the faint-hearted, says Perry Hutton, regional director: Africa at Fortinet. "Our business started...
The security challenge in 2016
It is a fact that cyber-attacks are growing more sophisticated. Protecting a company's information and data seems to be an arduous and complicated task, and finding trained personnel willing to combat continuing attacks gets more difficult all the time.However, the...
Le Moal is new PayU CEO
Payment services provider PayU has appointed Laurent Le Moal as its new CEO. PayU operates in 16 growth countries and is part of Naspers, the leading global media and Internet group. Laurent Le Moal will lead PayU's strategy and development, building on the company's...
Nature’s Choice chooses Epicor ERP
Nature's Choice has chosen Epicor ERP, the next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, to streamline processes and allow better transparency of business data to support growth. With humble beginnings in a pantry in 1985, Nature's Choice was founded as...
Riverbed acquires SD-WAN provider Ocedo
Application performance infrastructure company Riverbed Technology has acquired Germany-based Ocedo, a leading provider of software-defined networking and SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area-network) solutions. The acquisition furthers Riverbed's strategy to deliver...
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