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...

Finance leaders still leery about GenAI

Finance leaders say generative AI (GenAI) will have the most impactful use case in forecast/budget variance explanations, according to a survey by Gartner, with respondents identifying revenue/spend data classification and management reports as the next most impactful...

NASA selects Space-X to deorbit International Space Station

SpaceX has been selected to develop and deliver the US deorbit vehicle that will provide the capability to deorbit the space station and ensure avoidance of risk to populated areas. “Selecting a US Deorbit Vehicle for the International Space Station will help NASA and...

Banks deliver strong financial performance

As the books closed for 2021, the operating environment that contextualised the period for South Africa's major banks was in some ways more familiar. While 2020 began with a brief period of normality, the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the entirety of 2021, according to...

Russia-Ukraine war changes organisational risk profile

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has altered the emerging risk landscape, and it requires enterprise risk management (ERM) leaders to reassess previously established organisational risk profiles in at least four key areas, according to Gartner. "Russia's invasion of...

Huawei settles labour dispute with employment equity plan

The Department of Employment and Labour and Huawei Technologies South Africa, have reached an out of court settlement, following the department's application to the Labour Court on 11 February 2022. The Department has accepted Huawei South Africa's employment equity...

Healthcare industry slowly switching on to multicloud

Healthcare organisations appear to be in the early phases of cloud adoption and behind the cross-industry global respondent average. However, adoption is expected to jump from 27% to 51% in the next three years, in line with the global trend of evolving to a...

15 startups chosen for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa

Google has announced the participants in Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 7. The selected startups are developing solutions in areas such as healthcare, education, fleet management, logistics automation and recruiting. The seventh class includes 15 tech...

Dormant IPv4 addresses could help mitigate expected network outages

Global internet outages have been increasing since the beginning of the pandemic. And the world's reliance on a stable internet connection will only continue to grow, which has led to gloomy predictions regarding its resiliency due to immense user traffic. However,...

SA IT industry loses a leading light

By Mark Davison - One of the South African IT industry’s most admired and ebullient executives, Jacques Malherbe, chief technology officer of the Axiz group of companies, has died. He was 67-years-old. He suffered a suspected heart attack at his home in Johannesburg...

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Add value, loyalty to sell to SOHOs

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Kaspersky updates Internet Security

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Power protection for home connectivity

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New disaster recovery appliance from NetIQ

NetIQ South Africa has introduced Platespin Forge 700 disaster recovery appliances to protect physical and virtual server workloads in the event of a production server outage or disaster. Connie Grobler, technical specialist for identity and security management at...

MDM announces launch of Collibra software

Master Data Management (MDM), the official distributor of Collibra in South Africa, has announced that Collibra has further optimised their award-wining platform and released the advanced platform version 4.3. The new version continues to build upon Collibra’s...

Africa benefits from KEMP certification

KEMP Technologies, the full-featured virtual load balancer software provider, has announced that its Virtual LoadMaster has achieved VMware Ready-vCloud Air status. This designation indicates that the Virtual LoadMaster has undergone technical validation within the...

Zamtel, NEC partner on Zambia project

Zamtel and NEC Corporation, global leader in the integration of IT and network technologies, have agreed to build a new digital microwave radio transmission network to boost mobile coverage and capacity for citizens, enterprises and tourists across Zambia. The turnkey...

XON hosts third annual summit

XON hosts third annual summit XON, the pan-African ICT group, hosted its two-day, invitation-only annual summit at Sun City last week. Among attendees were delegates from Seacom, South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency (SITA), Telecom Namibia, Internet...

Tiger Brands implements Oracle solution

Tiger Brands, a leading Southern African maker and marketer of fast-moving consumer goods, has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite to help streamline its leading businesses and drive international expansion of brands as diverse as baby care products, smoked sausage...

Wearable tech has knock-on effect on BYOD

There was a period a couple of years ago when it seemed that every other article you read mentioned BYOD.  Now it seems to have largely fallen off the radar, replaced by bring your own anything (BYOx) and has become an accepted part of the IT landscape under the wider...

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Our client is looking for a self-motivated Full-Stack Intermediate Developer who is sufficiently independent and able to perform the majority of tasks without hands-on supervision. Responsibilities: Create clean code, with emphasis on good architecture.Involved in all...

Developer in Test (Automation) – Gauteng Johannesburg

Testing of Type Approval Management features via automation. Collaborate with team, system analysis, design, development, and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model. Automation of Frontend,...

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To collaborate closely with software engineering teams and stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document business requirements, ensuring that software solutions developed align with business objectives and effectively address stakeholders' needs. This role operates at...

Systems Engineer at Datonomy Solutions – Gauteng Sandton

Work location: Hybrid – onsite 1x per week on Tuesday; remote from home; onsite as and when required subjected to requirements as they arise.Must be Johannesburg basedPurpose: Provide specialist technical expertise and support in installing; testing; tuning;...

IT Risk Manager – Western Cape Cape Town Region

What will you do? The role of IT Risk Manager resides in the Governance, Risk and Business Engagement function of the business that is responsible for Governance and IT Risk Management within the company. The IT Risk Manager will be actively involved in defining,...

Systems Coordinator

A specialist warehouse and distribution company has an exciting opportunity for an experienced, customer service-oriented Systems Coordinator in the Western CapeThe Systems Coordinator is responsible for the upkeep, configuration and reliable operation of computer...

Junior Software Developer at Ciba Industries

Job Title: Junior Software Developer Location: Fourways, Johannesburg Contract type: Permanent Hybrid Junior Software Developer Purpose: As the Junior Software Developer, you will be responsible for supporting in the development and maintenance of internal and...

Full Stack Developer – KwaZulu-Natal Riverhorse Valley

Our client is looking for a self-motivated Full-Stack Intermediate Developer who is sufficiently independent and able to perform the majority of tasks without hands-on supervision. Responsibilities: Create clean code, with emphasis on good architecture.Involved in all...

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An exciting new opportunity has become available for a Data Engineer in the IT Operations Space. The Data Engineer will report into the Business Unit area and will provide BI Development and Data Analysis across all departments. The successful Data Engineer will be...

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