Shift to cloud reinforces the need for enhanced security
An increasing number of organisations are shifting towards hybrid cloud environments and adopting containerisation technologies, resulting in a pressing need for enhanced cloud workload security solutions, according to a new study from Kaspersky and ISG. The research...
Data centres and the electricity conundrum
Data centres are the heart of the digital economy and the demand for them is expected to rise substantially, positioning them as a primary focus for growth and investment. But the cost of operating data centres is also rising substantially due to rising electricity...
Shoprite Group almost doubles solar capacity
Over the past 12 months, the Shoprite Group has increased its installed capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems by 82% to 26,606 kWp. The 143 674m2 of solar panels at 62 sites, is equivalent to the size of 20 soccer fields. This is enough to power the equivalent...
Infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered an ongoing malicious campaign distributed via YouTube channel with more than 180 000 subscribers. Cybercriminals spread malware to collect users' personal data and obtain full control over the victim's computer by placing a link to...
Businesses are still introducing security risk into cloud environments
While cloud computing and its many forms (private, public, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments) have become ubiquitous with innovation and growth over the past decade, cybercriminals have closely watched the migration and introduced innovations of their own to...
Compute, storage cloud infrastructure spend on upward trajectory
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22,4% year over year in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22) to $22,6-billion. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
Automation is on the corporate agenda
A massive 85% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders that do not currently have any full automation expect to become more automated in the next two to three years. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of organisations will implement structured automation to...
Your personal data could go for less than the price of a Big Mac
Cybercriminals sell users' data on the dark web for dirt-cheap prices - often less than the price of a Big Mac in the US. For instance, a batch of American mobile phone numbers costs $4.50, US payment card data can be bought for around $5.80, and the Twitter login for...
Mobility as a service could save users $10,8bn in fuel
A new study from Juniper Research found MaaS (mobility as a service) will generate fuel cost savings of $10,8-billion by 2027 globally; increasing from $2,8-billion in 2022 - a growth of 282%. The research anticipates these savings will be achieved by MaaS' ability to...
Joburg teens shine in global AI contest
Three teenage girls from Johannesburg have competed against thousands of others in a global artificial intelligence (AI) programming festival and have won the event's country recognition category, each earning $500 (about R9 000) and a certificate of global...
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Protect yourself from a surge in cybercrime
Online fraud is on the increase in South Africa, with criminals seeing individuals' online banking accounts as particularly rich pickings. By Zane Renou, chief commercial officer at Cellfind Cybercrime, of which online banking scams account for significant portion, is...
Vox Telecom launches Sitebuilder for SMEs
Vox Telecom has launched Sitebuilder, a website development solution that enables end users and small businesses to create and maintain professional and fully responsive web sites, with ease. "Sitebuilder is the first of many new developments in our easy-to-use...
HelpOut app connects users with services
Mobile applications like Tinder and Airbnb continue to provide ways for people to use their location anywhere in the world to find, help, and connect with each other. South Africans have mostly piggy-backed on these foreign-created apps, and with great success, but...
Huawei partners with Rapid Response
Huawei has signed an exclusive agreement with Rapid Response, the mobile app that transforms a mobile phone into an emergency panic button. The agreement will see the app embedded within Huawei phones as a native service that links users to emergency service...
Destroy data with MAXXeGUARD
Local IT asset sisposal specialist Xperien has launched MAXXeGUARD, a mobile, low-noise shredder that can be used in every office environment to destroy a wide range of digital media quickly and securely. Xperien CEO Wale Arewa says data theft from digital media is...
Kemp offers load balancing as a service
Kemp Technologies has announced its OpenStack Load Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) plugin, giving customers the power to manage and orchestrate advanced application delivery services in their private cloud environments. With OpenStack adoption growing rapidly -...
Carlton Hair launches mobile loyalty app with SWARM
Carlton Hair, South Africa's largest and most prestigious hair salon group, will launch a new digital loyalty app that offers clients easier, faster and safer access to their loyalty rewards at any Carlton Hair salon across the country. Designed by Cape Town-based...
Live Print brings printing to life with Xerox
Live Print, a full service walk-in and e-commerce print shop, has expanded its product portfolio with a new Xerox C70 digital press from Bytes Document Solutions, Xerox's largest distributor worldwide. The company recently opened its doors at Salt Rock's Tiffanys...
Altech Alcom Matomo rolls out Namdeb network
Namdeb Diamond Corporation (Namdeb), a joint venture between the Namibian Government and De Beers, has enhanced safety and security at its mines through the implementation of an integrated digital communications network from Altech Alcom Matomo (AAM), a division of...
BT-SA partners with Aruba on workforce mobility
Local systems integrator BT-SA has partnered with Aruba Networks, a global leader in wireless communication solutions. BT-SA can now deliver enterprise WLAN solutions.
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