AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

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...

AI skilling among major risks for SA employers

Organisations in South Africa face a range of employee-related risks which could, if left unaddressed, have a dramatic impact on their future success. A global report from Mercer Marsh Benefits, People Risk 2024, draws on the views of 4 575 human resources (HR) and...

SolarAfrica breaks ground on solar farm

Independent power producer SolarAfrica Energy has broken ground on its first utility-scale solar farm based in the Northern Cape. Phase 1 of the SunCentral project will total around 342MW in generation capacity, with Phases 2 and 3 bringing the total size to 1GW and...

Private 5G networks usher in new wave of connectivity

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Private 5G networks offer enterprises new opportunities to transform themselves, digitalise and find new ways to serve their customers. This is the message from Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business, who says private...

44% of META companies fail to protect their IoT

A recent Kaspersky report, "Pushing the limits: How to address specific cybersecurity demands and protect IoT", reveals that in two-in-five businesses (44%) in the META region, some parts of their IoT infrastructure are yet to have any protection. Meanwhile, the main...

Strong set of financials from Alviva

South Africa's largest distribution group, Alviva, has announced a strong set of results for the first six months of the year with revenue soaring by 52% to R11,4-billion. It is also the first set of results from the group since the acquisition of Tarsus Technologies....

VPN demand in Russia surges

According to in-house aggregated Atlas VPN user data, Virtual Private Network (VPN) installs in Russia surged by 1 906% in the last few days. The interest in VPNs started to increase on February 16, 2022, after the first wave of cyberattacks against Ukraine occurred....

Shot in the arm for Covid-19 vaccine storage and delivery

Looking to boost Covid-19 vaccine storage and distribution, the Department of Health is rolling out new cold-chain equipment throughout the country, thanks to a R74-million donation from Vodacom and the Vodafone Foundation. Vaccine storage is a challenge for various...

The future of the telco is in software

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Open software-defined technology is rapidly becoming the foundation on which telecommunications operators (telcos) are building modern networks that offer agile and flexible new services to customers. Both traditional...

Telia delivers software-defined network slicing

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Software-defined services are at the heart of new network slicing capabilities that Telia launched today with its customer Sandvik, a Swedish multinational engineering company. Rainer Deutschmann, group chief operating...

Telecoms is ‘the gateway to the future’

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Despite the many benefits that technology has brought us, people still don't really trust it. That's according to José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and CEO of Telefónica, and a board member of the GSMA, addressing...

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Avaya named leader by Gartner

Avaya has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications for 2014. This is the sixth consecutive year that Avaya has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant and recognized as an industry player in the...

Facebook Messenger privacy issues

Users of the iPhone and Android versions of Facebook’s app will have found that, when trying to get into messenger, they are directed to download a second app, Messenger that will allow you person-to-person messages. This has left many users in a bind, as without...

Making the most of a CCTV solution

CCTV surveillance is becoming an increasingly popular addition to the security portfolios of both business and home users. The presence of CCTV not only acts as a deterrent for many would-be intruders, it also gives users themselves additional peace of mind that their...

Datameer signs partnership with MDM

Master Data Management (MDM) has signed a distribution agreement with Datameer, providing an end-to-end big data analytics application purpose-built for Hadoop to the Southern African market. This type of solution is essential for companies considering or embarking on...

BMi rolls out QlikView solution

BMi, a primary market research firm, initially adopted QlikView to streamline its financial reporting. Soon after, it discovered the tool’s true value for its business – an uncanny ability to link multiple data sets onto a single uniform platform. As a result, the...

Jasco launches generator sets

Jasco Power is offering generator sets of 10kVA to 1200kVA that can be purpose built to suit any businesses requirements. In operation for 12 months and with a goal of taking a 20% market share in the highly competitive generator market space within the next year,...

Craig Luck named MD of Datanet

Pinnacle Holdings is proud to announce the appointment of Craig Luck as MD of its infrastructure arm, Datanet. Starting from 1 September 2014, Craig Luck will be taking over from Nico Steyn who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Nico has done some...

OTEL Telecoms launches hosted PBX switch

OTEL Telecoms, a licenced South African National Telecoms Carrier, announced today the release of its CloudAstrix Business Edition, a multi-tenant hosted PBX SoftSwitch aimed at Enterprise and Internet Telephony Service Providers. “As hosted telephony become...

Business rescue is not a magic salve

With some large local operations going into business rescue recently, the concept itself is probably still novel to many in South Africa, writes Gareth Cremen, a partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. Reports in the business press suggest that shortly after Leon Kirkinis...

Networks Unlimited partners with F5 Networks

Value-added security and networking distributor, Networks Unlimited, has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with the leader in application delivery networking (ADN) technology, F5 Networks. F5’s application delivery platform encompasses hardware,...

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Senior Business Analyst – Western Cape Somerset West

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Application Developer-Mainframe Modernization – Gauteng Pretoria

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Data Scientist at Parvana Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg

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