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...

Positive picture for business travel going forward

Forty percent of businesses plan to increase their travel in FY25 (July to June), while 42% of customers intend to increase their travel spend versus last year, according to a landmark State of the Market survey for Flight Centre Corporate. Utilising the innovative...

Open source AI set to drive new innovation

Kathy Gibson reports from Red Hat Summit in Johannesburg –  Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the big IT buzzword for the last year and is ready to become a mainstream technology that can help organisations solve their IT and business challenges. Dion Harvey,...

What are the risks with facial recognition technology?

Facial recognition systems are capable of up to 99,97% accuracy, but the technology does have some drawbacks. Cybersecurity experts at Ping Identity explore the importance of biometric authentication capabilities while protecting user privacy. How does facial...

Updated: Artemis 1 mission to the Moon scrubbed

Today's Artemis launch attempt has been cancelled. A potential problem with one of the engines and a potential crack in the thermal protection system on one of the flanges halted the Artemis countdown clock at T-40 minutes while engineers assessed an issue...

Siya Kolisi teams up with Luno

Crypto investment app Luno has teamed up with Springbok rugby captain Siya Kolisi to launch an educational campaign that encourages South Africans to think long-term when it comes to crypto investing. The two-year educational campaign kicked off with Kolisi's...

Americans lost $3,56bn to online fraud in H1 2022

A recent analysis by Atlas VPN reveals that US citizens lost a record $3,56-billion to various types of online fraud in the first half of 2022, an increase of almost 53% over the same period last year. Americans submitted more than 793 000 fraud complaints in the...

Global RPA market tipped to hit $20bn by 2020

Following disruptions caused to businesses by the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been increased interest in robotic process automation (RPA) as enterprises seek to reduce dependency on a human workforce. As a result of this, the global RPA software and services market...

New campaign aims to inoculate viewers against fake news

Short animations giving viewers a taste of the tactics behind misinformation can help to "inoculate" people against harmful content on social media when deployed on YouTube. This is among the findings from a major online experiment led by the University of Cambridge,...

Pick n Pay migrates to AWS cloud

Pick n Pay has completed migrating its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, and will now work to extend into other cloud-based applications to deliver better digital services and cost savings for customers. The move has seen Pick n Pay reduce its infrastructure...

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The hospital of the future

For many governments, how a country looks after its own health is often the cornerstone of any successful political campaign, says Matthew Barker, regional manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Aruba Networks. Even if budgets rise for healthcare systems, ageing...

NetApp announces new appointment

With the beginning of NetApp’s new fiscal year in May 2015, Alex Wallner, area vice-president for Central Europe and Russia, has taken on additional responsibility for NetApp’s business operations in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. The region was...

Ricoh rolls out Oracle solution

Ricoh is using Oracle’s SPARC T5 servers with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances and Oracle Database to analyse data from RICOH @Remote, its realtime support service for customers in more than 100 countries and regions. The service monitors and collects thousands of data...

ASTD grows talent management in Africa

The African Society for Talent Development (ASTD) has launched its Leadership Dialogue Networks (LDN) to facilitate networking, knowledge-sharing and strategic problem solving in the talent community, with critical focus on the strategic roles of talent practitioners...

Dell reduces enterprise flash storage costs

Dell is the first storage array provider to announce adoption of the industry’s newest, highest-density and lowest-cost-for-performance enterprise flash drives, helping organisations of all sizes to significantly reduce costs associated with storing and managing their...

JDA offers new features in Store Operations

Today’s retail managers are challenged to keep shelf availability and service levels high, while keeping store operations costs low without sacrificing the customer experience — which means they must schedule employees and manage tasks with an exacting degree of...

Software projects versus software products

When building software solutions, whether internally or outsourced, much of the focus is often on enforcing budget and deadlines, or on risks, such as choosing and implementing the right methodologies, technologies and platforms. Included in this list of pitfalls is a...

Kasperky wins AV-Comparatives award

Kaspersky Internet Security has received AV-Comparatives’ highest Advanced+ award following the results of a study by the respected research laboratory. The study included a series of tests designed to evaluate the impact security software has on a PC’s performance....

SanDisk reaches 2bn microSD card milestone

SanDisk Corporation has announced it has shipped more than two-billion microSD cards since it started commercial shipment of the technology 10 years ago. The company commemorates this milestone on the eve of Mobile World Congress Shanghai. Invented by SanDisk in 2004,...

Reputable cloud providers key for banks

Cloud-based services have become increasingly popular among small and large businesses alike. This change in technology and regulation means that financial institutions are under pressure to source solutions that are flexible in meeting security risks. Banks need to...

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