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...

Labour disputes emerge as SA’s top legal concern

Labour matters rank highest among the everyday legal questions that South Africans are asking. This is according to data aggregated by My AI Lawyer, which found that more than a third (37%) of the queries processed on My AI Lawyer in the first six months of 2026 is...

Phenomenal growth forecast for Gen AI smartphones

The future of the smartphone industry is set to be transformed as worldwide generative AI (GenAI) smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 363,6% YoY in 2024 to 234,2-million units, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) forecast. This represents 19%...

Nominations open for 2024 IITPSA President’s Awards

Nominations are now open for the Institute of Information Technology Professionals (IITPSA) President's Awards - which this year includes a new award category for IITPSA members - and which will encompass the theme of "Celebrating leaders in ethical digital...

Obstacles ahead for SA’s economy

Local economic growth is facing a myriad of headwinds this year including a weaker global environment weighing on export potential, a tightening of domestic monetary policy, a further rise in electricity load-shedding, a series of big fuel prices increases, and the...

Digital transformation acceleration comes with trade-offs

With highly distributed architectures and a broader threat landscape resulting from an ongoing digitisation of previously physical experiences, organisations are turning to a variety of solutions to help manage complexity and address widening IT skills gaps. However,...

SAP Africa sets up Africa’s first AppHaus

SA Africa has revealed plans to set up its first African AppHaus in Cape Town. The SAP AppHaus Network is a community of SAP partners that are united in the belief that innovation requires a creative environment, a multi-disciplinary team of designers, domain experts,...

CMOs should look beyond digital for differentiation

Marketing teams that are effective at scaled judgment and empathetic influence are more likely to report revenue growth, according to Gartner, In fact, marketing teams who implemented these skills were 11% more likely to report organisational revenue growth in 2021....

Regional displacement tracking scales up

More than 8-million people are internally displaced in Ukraine due to the war, and a further 6,5-million have fled to safety across international borders. In response, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is scaling up the use of its Displacement...

Government sector increasingly targeted by cybercriminals

Research based on the analysis of incidents reported to customers of Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) has revealed that the share of critical incidents experienced by organisations increased from one-in-ten (9%) in 2020, to one-in-seven (14%) in 2021....

Marketing budgets on the increase

Marketing budgets have climbed to 9,5% of total company revenue in 2022, an increase from 6,4% in 2021, according to Gartner. But while marketing budgets are increasing this year, they still lag pre-pandemic spending levels. The annual Gartner 2022 CMO Spend and...

African entrepreneurs set for take-off

African business leaders are expecting the entrepreneurial spirit to take off across the continent over the next three years on the back of an improved environment for business and greater political stability, according to new research from World Mobile. The study...

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Kaspersky releases independent test results

Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce the results of 22 tests carried out by independent research companies in Q4 2014. The experts tested Kaspersky Lab’s security solutions and those of other vendors: they analysed how effectively popular security products detect new, unknown malware including mobile malware, protect against phishing and financial threats, and how they affect device performance.

Micromine demos solutions at Mining Indaba

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Altech Multimedia, Protec aid 100% pass rate

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Second RASP accreditation for Datacentrix

Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions, has announced that it is the first African company to receive two Riverbed Authorised Support Partner (RASP) programme accreditations; RASP-W, which was awarded in 2012, and more recently, RASP-SD....

Channel partners simplify cloud integration

The cloud is one of the major trends in the IT industry. Even in South Africa, where we lag behind the rest of the world in terms of speed and user penetration when it comes to broadband Internet – the latter due to prohibitive costs – cloud uptake is expected to...

Staying secure with mobile banking

Before mobile banking becomes truly universal, banks and financial institutions must consider the balance between security and usability, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. We live in an app world. We shop through apps, we catch up with the latest...

Interactive Intelligence reports growth

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Fujitsu expands Primergy line-up

Fujitsu has announced the expansion of its Primergy dual-socket server line up, with new models specifically designed to enable business growth in data centres that are limited in their overall expansion by energy and space restrictions. The new Fujitsu rack and blade servers are designed to reduce cost, improve efficiency and accelerate workloads to deliver optimum, scalable levels of productivity while still meeting specific maximum limits in terms of use of rack space, plus caps on power and cooling.

Avaya upgrades RCOM’s call centre

Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s fully-integrated telecommunications service provider, today entered into a multi-year, multi-million dollar mega-agreement with Avaya to transform its call centre operations. With more than 110-million customers, Reliance...

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ServiceNow Technical Architect 1656

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