AI comes of age as hype clears
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape, Durban - As the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) starts to dissipate, organisations are starting to use the technology to drive real business transformation. Doug Woolley, vice-president of Dell Technologies, says...
Hardware supply chains under siege from hackers
HP Inc has released the findings of a global survey highlighting the growing concern over nation-state threat actors targeting physical supply chains and tampering with device hardware and firmware integrity. The study of 800 IT and security decision-makers (ITSDMs)...
Cybercrime complexity drives changes in the CISO role
Kathy Gibson reports – Cybersecurity is not a simple exercise: there is no quick solution to a complex situation. Tony Olivier, acting-chief information security officer (CISO) at Imperial Logistics and also co-author of the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill of South...
Security underpins digital transformation
Kathy Gibson reports – Covid-19 has driven a paradigm shift in how business uses technology, which is now relied upon to drive businesses. Abdul Moosa, Chief Technology Officer of CoCre8 Technology Solutions, explains that business is no longer siloed, but rather...
Cheaper overseas calls could soon be a reality
The Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA) has welcomed moves by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) to conduct a cost modelling exercise with regards to voice call termination rates and to introduce curbs on charges from local voice...
SMEs under cyber attack
When a small business owner is faced with the responsibilities of production economics, financial reports and marketing all at the same time, cybersecurity can often appear complicated and, at times, unnecessary. However, this disregard for IT security is being...
DDoS attacks still above pre-pandemic levels
The total number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks fell 13% in 2021 over 2020, but were still well above pre-pandemic levels. According to Nexusguard researchers in the recently released DDoS Statistical Report for 2021, while the average attack size...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captures video of record flight
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's black-and-white navigation camera has provided dramatic video of its record-breaking 25th flight, which took place on 8 April. Covering a distance of 704m at a speed of 5,5m per second, it was the Red Planet rotorcraft's longest and...
AMD claims fastest and greenest HPC titles
AMD powers the fastest and the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, according to the latest Top500 and Green500 lists. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Frontier system submitted its very first score to the Top500 list of 1.1 exaflops, making it the...
HPE switches on AI supercomputer in France
Recalling the French linguist who deciphered the Rosetta Stone 150 years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has now switched on a tool to unravel customers' knottiest problems. The Champollion AI supercomputer takes its name from Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832),...
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Trusted data key to success in 2015
The wheels are turning ever faster in the telecom industry. For every year, there are new and often unexpected developments. As we face another eventful year, industry expert David King, CEO of leading data centre and power management systems supplier Flexenclosure,...
Adapt IT gives Nike data a brand new view
JSE-listed Adapt IT Holdings, a provider of specialised turnkey IT solutions and services to the education, mining & manufacturing, energy and financial services sectors, was appointed by Nike to implement optimised and automated business intelligence (BI)...
Securing the new era of big data
In the digital age, information is the new currency. And in order to get information, enterprises are mining data – and lots of it – for the knowledge that it can yield, says Perry Hutton, Fortinet Africa regional director. On the scale of Internet commerce or social...
CIOs, HR directors can drive business value
As the human resources (HR) function in most companies becomes more tech-driven and automated, so does the business partnership between the chief information officer (CIO) and the HR director become increasingly important. That’s the word from Fanie Jansen, CIO at...
A 2015 trend your business can’t ignore
Most companies double the number of documents they produce every two years. So, if your business is starting to buckle under the weight of endless paperwork and your employees are up to their eyeballs in filing (and threatening the printers with physical harm), it’s...
GIBS, DiData partner on programme
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and Dimension Data have announced the formation of the Dimension Data Programme in Digital Disruption, which will be funded by Dimension Data through a sponsorship endowment to GIBS. The...
LG G3 users to receive Lollipop
Android’s latest operating system, Lollipop, is now available in South Africa. LG Mobile is the first to bring it to local consumers and is available for download now. Lollipop is available only for the LG G3 at the moment, but will roll out for other devices at a...
Wipro, Software AG announce joint solution
Software AG and Wipro, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process, services company, have announced a joint solution platform for streaming analytics that provides realtime actionable intelligence for the Internet of Things (IoT) market....
Talent Africa wins AESC membership
Talent Africa, an alliance of Korn Ferry, is pleased to announce they have been awarded the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) membership. AESC is a worldwide professional association for the retained and executive search industry. It promotes the...
Medium-sized businesses see big data value
Big data’s been talked about and written about so much now that most businesspeople, even those from smaller organisations, have at the very least heard of the term. Many even have a vague understanding of what it is, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge...
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