Cape Town sees high levels of food insecurity
The State of the City Food System Report, by the University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers Gareth Haysom and Associate Professor Jane Battersby, has revealed alarmingly high levels of food insecurity in the city, which are compounded by spatial inequities. The report...
Digital adoption boosts anti-money laundering market
The global anti-money laundering market is expected to reach $4,24-billion by 2030 - with a CAGR of 16% from 2024 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research, which says that the growing adoption of digital and mobile payments is driving the anti-money...
Cybersecurity skills survey highlights need for diverse talents
More than half of cybersecurity professionals agree that people don't need a university degree to have a successful career in cybersecurity, despite 85% of those professionals holding degrees related to IT, computer science technology. Forty-five percent of respondent...
What to expect now for 5G
The rollout of 5G continues to gain momentum across the globe, as new opportunities in immersive and connected metaverses arise. By Janet MacKenzie, partner and head of the IPTech practice at Baker McKenzie Johannesburg and Michael Kunstler, partner at Baker McKenzie...
Huge growth for global public cloud services
The worldwide public cloud services market, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service – System Infrastructure Software (SaaS – SIS), and Software as a Service – Applications, grew 29% year over year in 2021 with...
Infrastructure investing in SA versus the rest of Africa
It's a well-known fact that infrastructure investment is urgently needed across Africa, including in South Africa. The African Development Bank estimates that the continent's infrastructure financing needs will be as much as $170-billion a year by 2025, with an...
Massive growth for security services edge
The security services edge (SSE) market grew 40% year-over-year (Y/Y) and was over $800-million in 1Q 2022, according to a quarterly report by Dell’Oro Group. SSE is a new market that combines cloud-delivered secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker...
SA consumers are digitally empowered
Just a few years ago, it would have been inconceivable that so many people would be using online channels for so many services. But as people become more comfortable with digital platforms, and with Covid providing a push, the era of the empowered South African...
Beware of ransomware attacks from Black Basta Gang
Cybereason has issued a global threat alert advisory, warning global organisations about a rise in ransomware attacks from the Black Basta gang. The Black Basta gang emerged in April 2022 and has victimised nearly 50 companies in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and...
Inkjet SFP revenue surges in Q2 as consumer demand increases
Revenues from sales of inkjet single-function printers (SFPs) through European distributors have been largely on the rise since Week 15 of this year on the back of improved supply and consumer demand. Context’s Index Revenue Trend clearly shows weekly average revenues...
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Cubic Blue tackles GRC for big data
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VMware helps healthcare embrace mobile cloud
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Preventing watering hole malware attacks
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New assessment offering from DiData
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Build fans, not audiences
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Datacentrix shows strong growth
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Data analytics translates to rands and cents
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Corporate productivity gets personal
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Lenovo strengthens server portfolio
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CallCabinet signs with ECN
CallCabinet South Africa has signed a deal with Electronic Communications Network (ECN), a division of JSE-listed Reunert, to incorporate CallCabinet’s powerful and compliant voice logging technology as part of its telecoms solutions. ECN is a national next generation...
Software Developer – Western Cape Century City
Responsibilities: Building specific BizTalk, C# and SQL components in accordance with the design specifications as assigned by the Team Leader.Design and implement BizTalk applications using components created by other team members and themselves.Assist Junior...
IT Support Specialist – Western Cape Cape Town Region
Summary Leading financial company seeks an IT Support Specialist for a contract role based in Cape Town. Description Ensure smooth running of production application and infrastructureProvide 24 x 7 first-line standby/support for production environmentsCreate temporary...
Application Support Analyst at Accenture
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Oracle DBA (KG)
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Software Test Engineer
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Oracle DBA (KG) – Gauteng Centurion
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Senior Software Developer at Accenture
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