Negative sentiment drives call for data centre transparency

Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – With data centres experiencing massive growth around the globe, the industry needs to do a better job of telling people the benefits they offer humanity at large. Worldwide, uncertainty about possible risks posed by...

Growing energy demand will limit ambitious climate goals

The global economy is on the cusp of a major shift where most of future global energy demand growth will come from emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The new realities of meeting this demand alongside the need for energy security, resilience and...

AI spend soars to unprecedented levels

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,7-trillion in 2026, a 49,5% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner. “Demand for AI infrastructure (including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices)...

Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

Double-digit revenue growth forecast for security products

Worldwide revenue for security products totaled $106,8-billion in 2023, an increase of 15,6% compared to 2022. And revenue growth was strong across the board with all six product categories registering double-digit year-over-year growth, according to new data from the...

Intel demos fully-integrated optical I/O chiplet

Intel has achieved what it believes to be a milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission. At the Optical Fibre Communication Conference (OFC) 2024, Intel's Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group demonstrated the industry's first...

Technology can transform cancer care and support

Microsoft South Africa and NPO Living with Cancer have partnered to build and strengthen the capabilities of South Africa's first patient-led cancer registry using the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The registry, which was established in 2017 and includes a...

Frictionless checkout demand drives OEM Pay growth

A new Juniper Research study has found that the volume of global e-commerce transactions made via OEM Pay will exceed 30,7-billion by 2026; rising from 4,7-billion in 2022. This outstanding growth of 550% will be driven by rapidly increasing customer demands of...

Smartphone sales bounce back from Covid-19

Worldwide smartphone sales grew 6% in 2021, says Gartner, rebounding in the first half of 2021, following a 12,5% decline in 2020. The previous year's lower smartphone sales because of Covid-19 and the bounce back to growth in first half of 2021 helped propel the...

Manufacturing bears the brunt of cyberattacks

IBM Security has released its annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index which reveals how ransomware and vulnerability exploitations together were able to "imprison" businesses in 2021, further burdening global supply chains and with manufacturing emerging as the most...

Companies struggle with complexity of multi-cloud

As organisations continue to adopt the cloud, with 35% running more than 50% of their workloads on the likes of Azure, AWS and GCP, they struggle to manage the complexity of securing their cloud infrastructures across multiple cloud platforms, while also suffering a...

Attacks on industrial control systems on the rise

During the second half of 2021, almost 40% of all industrial control systems' (ICS) computers globally were attacked by malicious software at least once, according to Kaspersky. Even though the overall number of attacks has seen a slight decrease when compared to H1...

CSOs should focus B2B sales on situational buyer insights

B2B sales organisations must take a more situationally aware approach, tuning engagement skills and tactics with empathy for, and personalisation to, a prospective buyer's current state, according to Gartner. Standardised customer engagement in today's buying...

FPAA comes into force

The primary amendments introduced by the the Films and Publications Amendment Act 11 of 2019 (FPAA), which came into effect 1March, are the regulation of the online distribution of films, games and publications, and the extension of the operations of the Film and...

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kalahari.com appoints market research firm

kalahari.com has appointed full service market research and strategy business, Dashboard Marketing Intelligence, to measure the perceptions of the brand in the minds of the country’s shoppers. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Dashboard’s range of marketing...

Insight for the insurance industry

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Choosing the right Microsoft Office product

Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity software packages in the world, and is available in several different versions for different users, says Ruben Naicker, Microsoft product specialist at Drive Control Corporation. For consumers, however, these...

Dac, Compute Corporate partner for education

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Big data as an information management issue

Right now, big data is one of the most heard buzz words in IT, next to cloud, analytics and mobile. So far, most of the discussions on big data focus on storage. In the past, a lot of people thought big data was only a storage problem. Organisations were wondering if...

The end of the road for traditional media

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Jasco offers DataVoice DVLink desktop app

Jasco has announced the availability of the new DataVoice DVLink desktop application, an add-on to the proven DataVoice Libra voice recording solution. DVLink enhances the capabilities of Libra through an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard that makes both the call and...

Vodacom stores offer LG G3

The much anticipated LG G3 is now available from Vodacom stores. The latest smartphone from LG Electronics (LGESA) is a culmination of consumer research based on LG’s product development philosophy, Learning from You. LG listened and the G3’s philosophy, "simple is...

BlackBerry platform wins STIG approval

BlackBerry has announced that Secure Work Space for iOS and Android, a multi-platform containerisation solution managed through BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10), has received Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) approval from the Defense Information...

Standard Bank updates banking app

Standard Bank has announced the much anticipated update of its banking app for smartphones. This rollout follows the successful launch of its new generation tablet banking app in March this year. According to Vuyo Mpako, head of Innovation and Channel Design at...

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Junior Business Analyst (Integrated Supply Chain Solutions) Location: Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Gauteng This position is limited to BBBEE candidates due to BEE requirements. A leading global supply chain group is seeking to hire a new Junior Business Analyst for...

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