Ransomware continues to cause havoc
Ransomware remains an ongoing threat for organisations and is the largest single cause of IT outages and downtime as 41% of data is compromised during a cyberattack, according to the latest Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report. The report also reveals that only 57% of...
Senior execs see sustainability as an opportunity
According to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner, 69% of them view sustainability as a leading business growth opportunity in 2024. "As CEOs reset their long-term strategies, environmental sustainability remains one of the leading factors that...
SA users take to cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency adoption is on the rise in South Africa, according to Finder.com's latest Cryptocurrency Adoption Index. The study shows that 11% of South African adult Internet users, or an estimated 4,5-million people, owned cryptocurrency in the December survey, up...
What the future holds for our lifestyles
The year that has passed brought us closer to home than we've ever been. As we learned and felt the different speeds and volumes of change, we understood the fast rate we're moving towards the future, and the different feelings tied to it. So, what do these mean for...
Gartner see Q4 drop in PC shipments, but growth for the year
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 88,4-million units in the fourth quarter of 2021, a 5% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results by Gartner. This is the first year-over-year decline following six consecutive quarters of growth. For the...
Tech trends set to dominate business in 2022
Pressure from the global Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to embrace bold changes. Currently, digital transformation has a significant impact on organisations. A recent study forecast the digital transformation market will grow at a compound annual growth rate...
Smart tech critical for airline, airport success
While IT budgets have stayed largely flat in 2021, airport and airline CIOs are betting on technology to support their recovery from Covid-19, with a significant increase in spending on digitalisation and sustainability as key priorities by 2024. This is according to...
Global digital sales passed $1trn over the holiday season
While Cyber Week saw muted digital growth in 2021, early November and late December surges helped retailers break new sales records. Salesforce's 2021 Holiday Shopping Report, which analyses shopping data from over 1-billion shoppers on the Salesforce Customer 360...
Climate failure, social crises top global risks for 2022
Climate risks dominate global concerns as the world enters the third year of the pandemic. According to the Global Risks Report 2022, while the top long-term risks relate to climate, the top shorter-term global concerns include societal divides, livelihood crises and...
These were the top networking challenges in 2021
Responding to disruptions (45%) and accommodating new business needs (40%) have been cited in the report as the top network challenges during 2021. These are among the findings from Cisco's l Global Networking Trends Report, based on a survey of 1 534 IT professionals...
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Netherlands sees first LTE broadcast trial
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Interactive Intelligence reports Q1 results
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SAP, VMware boost SAP HANA
To empower customers to innovate, simplify and move toward a software-defined data centre architecture, SAP AG and VMware have announced that the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production use has been released to customers. By combining the power of SAP...
Smartphone LBS grows in banking sector
Location based services (LBS) has allowed FNB to offer Banking App users the ability to locate ATMs and branches and make GeoPayments, cashless, person-to-person payments, with just three taps and a pin. This service, launched by FNB on the Banking App in May 2012,...
Veeam MP upgrade adds Hyper-V support
Veeam Software has announced that Veeam Management Pack (MP) v7 for System Centre will add support for Microsoft Hyper-V. In a single product, this Veeam MP release integrates fully with Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager, providing app-to-metal visibility,...
DiData now a SAP-certified provider
Dimension Data, the $6-billion global ICT solutions and services provider, has announced that is now a SAP-certified global provider of cloud and hosting services for SAP solutions. Dimension Data also released a set of pre-configured cloud server images that makes it...
White River Printers buys Xerox press
White River Printers, based in Nelspruit and one of the largest printing shops in the Lowveld, has bought a Xerox Colour J75 digital press from Lowveld Office Automation. The sale was concluded at the Africa Print Expo held in Nelspruit earlier this year. White River...
Analytics mitigates financial crimes
Last week, the Reserve Bank slapped South Africa’s big four banks with heavy penalties for not implementing regulations to control money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism. To be clear, the banks were not accused of facilitating transactions involving...
Fingerprint technology to boost e-commerce
Apple's iPhone 5S and the recently launched Samsung S5 have impressed consumers with the new biometric fingerprint authentication technology which the manufacturers have added to the models. According to Simon Leps, CEO of Fontera Digital Works, although many users...
Dac rolls out Nintex Workflow for customer
Dac Systems, a Proudly South African national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products, has successfully integrated Nintex Workflow in order to address critical technical requirements at an established market leading financial and investment house....
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