AI makes critical thinking a workforce priority

A new global study from the IBM for Business Value points to a disconnect between the skills chief human resource officers (CHROs) say AI requires and those employees prioritise. While 71% of CHROs identify the ability to supervise, validate and override AI outputs as...

Today’s data centre build-out dwarfs previous infrastructure investments

Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history – bigger than the railroads or the Industrial Revolution. “People assume AI is a bubble, but it is showing no signs of...

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...

Hybrid multicloud adoption in financial services

While the current adoption of hybrid multicloud deployments remains consistent year-over-year in the financial services sector, respondents expect a significant 3x increase in adoption in the next three years, making it the leading IT model in the sector. This is the...

5G drives changes in service providers’ FWA strategies

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) continues to grow in strength as a 5G use case for communications service providers (CSPs) globally with a sharp increase over the past year in the number of CSPs offering the service. This is among the findings from the June 2024 Ericsson...

Technology can speed up humanitarian action

Technology today is evolving at an extraordinary and accelerating pace and is changing the very way we live and work. Its ability to assist humanitarian action in low-income countries has alerted donors, practitioners and governments to its potential. Southern Africa...

Calling all creative thinkers …

With global warming in Southern Africa occurring at double the global average rate, the impacts of climate change are expected to have a devastating effect on the region - from reducing agricultural yield, drying up water sources, and increased risk of natural...

Trends the channel should focus on in 2022

Kathy Gibson is at Techscape 2022 - The work from home and hybrid working trend is here to stay, but there are a wealth of other trends that the channel needs to capitalise on. This is the word from Doug Woolley, GM and vice-president of Dell Technologies South...

New products, channel offerings from Lenovo

Kathy Gibson is at Techscape 2022 - Lenovo has grown and prospered over the last years – and the company continues to introduce new products and channel offerings to the local market. Thibault Dousson, GM of Lenovo South Africa, explains that Lenovo doesn’t simply...

Opportunities ahead for the channel

Kathy Gibson is at Techscape 2022 - Artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, cloud and the hybrid workplace are among the many opportunities that IT resellers should be prepared to seize in the coming year. This is the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of...

Perseverance celebrates first birthday on Mars by learning how to run

NASA’s Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb. 18, 2021, and the six-wheeled scientist has other important accomplishments in store as it speeds toward its new destination and a new science campaign....

Ransomware and password guessing top cybersecurity threats

ESET Research has released its T3 Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2021, summarising the key statistics from ESET detection systems between September to December 2021. The research reveals a rising scourge of email threats towards the end of 2021 and a marked...

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Managing the heterogeneous data centre

Data centre owners are under pressure to standardise on a single virtualisation technology - but, says Warren Olivier of Veeam Software, there are some advantages to having a mixed environment.“In the modern data centre, it’s applications that should drive decision...

Change management key for Marval Africa

IT service management (ITSM) has a number of benefits: it provides an organisation with the opportunity to improve their quality of service, increase productivity and customer satisfaction, reduce costs and achieve operational excellence whilst meeting information...

Riverbed advances Microsoft partnership

Riverbed Technology has announced that it is one of the first partners to join the new Microsoft Azure Certified programme. In addition, Riverbed will now offer a Microsoft Azure-certified version of Riverbed SteelHead CX for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) clouds...

Five things to consider when buying a TV

Choosing a TV isn’t the simple task it once was. With all of the new technologies and features available, making an informed choice is more important than ever, particularly if you want to avoid buyer’s remorse down the line. Below are the five things you should look...

Marval Africa appoints new CEO

Marval South Africa, a specialist provider of service management (SM) solutions, education and consultancy, has announced the appointment of David Anderson as CEO. Anderson will be tasked with the implementation of business strategies and support the growth of the...

Creating a workplace of the future

Workplace dynamics are evolving drastically due to a challenging economic climate, relentless advances in technology and changing workforce attitudes. Companies have little choice but to move toward creating more collaborative environments to maximise workplace...

The hidden benefits of managed services

Customers are increasingly demanding rapid, excellent service from an organisation’s contact centre – and rightfully so, says Louise van Zyl, manager, Technical Centre at Jasco Enterprise. However, as contact centre managers look to add more communication channels,...

Gemalto joins pan-African mHealth Initiative

Gemalto has provided its support to the GSMA pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI), a mobile ecosystem that aims to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. Acting as one of the first leading partners in this ambitious undertaking,...

Tintri sees positive growth

Tintri has announced its customers have deployed 200 000 virtual machines (VMs) on Tintri storage systems. Comprised of more than 16 petabytes of user data, these VMs run large scale private cloud deployments, business critical databases, enterprise applications and...

Tropa offers emotional voicemail with Voxeo

Tropa Services, a mobile marketing company based in Switzerland, specialises in innovative customer communication. Delivering emotional voice messages to mobile phone voice boxes with its voiceTRO offering, has developed into a main business. For the technical...

Business Analyst – Test Management (Expert) TT

Assists in establishing, implementation and steering of overall test management strategy from a business perspective across all financial accounting products (both manual and automated test strategy).Build effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the...

Cyber Security Specialist

Our Client in the Telecommunications industry is hiring for a Cyber Security Specialist as an Independent Contractor for 12 months. This role will allow you to gain experience in working with one of the largest telecommunications companies in South Africa.The ideal...

QA Test Analyst

This role can be fully remote.. A Test Engineer's job duties include planning, designing, and evaluating products, as well as collaborating with production management. The Test Engineer makes sure that the finished product can be identified easily and tested...

Business Analyst

Are you passionate about analyzing business needs and translating them into actionable requirements? We're looking for a skilled Business Analyst to join our team. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with stakeholders,...

Business Analyst – Test Management (Expert) TT – Gauteng Pretoria

Assists in establishing, implementation and steering of overall test management strategy from a business perspective across all financial accounting products (both manual and automated test strategy).Build effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the...

Cyber Security Specialist – Gauteng Midrand

Our Client in the Telecommunications industry is hiring for a Cyber Security Specialist as an Independent Contractor for 12 months. This role will allow you to gain experience in working with one of the largest telecommunications companies in South Africa.The ideal...

QA Test Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town CBD

This role can be fully remote.. A Test Engineer's job duties include planning, designing, and evaluating products, as well as collaborating with production management. The Test Engineer makes sure that the finished product can be identified easily and tested...

Business Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town

Are you passionate about analyzing business needs and translating them into actionable requirements? We're looking for a skilled Business Analyst to join our team. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with stakeholders,...

Automation Engineer (Fully Remote)

The automation engineer role is aimed not only at our clients' internal requirements, but also at providing automation projects and efficiency improvements for our clients customers which will be scoped individually as required.Responsibilities Include:Detailed...

Desktop Support and Systems Administrator

Key Objective of role Day to day support of IT requirements for the company's users.Intermediation between users and IT service providers (Microsoft patching and anti-virus; other application support; NetSurIT Cloud operation security centre).Computer builds (standard...

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