AI is changing enterprises, and already driving value

By Kathy Gibson - Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to pay off for early enterprise adopters. More than half of companies that have implemented AI are now seeing a return on investment, with the most value reported by future-built organisations. This is the...

Tech giants raise the AI safety bar

The risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) are back in the spotlight with the news that rogue agents have been responsible for multiple attacks on government sites in Australia and the US. Even the FBI has not been immune to attacks from autonomous agents....

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...

AI set to free up healthcare workers

As much as 15% of the current healthcare workforce hours will be subject to automation by 2030. The growing reliance on AI is primarily due to the swelling patient population and a shorter pool of health specialists, according to analysis by Stocklytics.com. The...

Tech investment key to SARS maintaining its capabilities

PwC South Africa has launched its seventh annual Taxing Times Survey - open to all corporate taxpayers and which aims to assess their interactions with the South African Revenue Service (SARS), identify the organisation's strengths, and highlight areas or processes...

BlueNoroff drains cryptocurrency accounts

Kaspersky experts have uncovered a series of attacks by advanced persistent threat (APT) actor BlueNoroff against small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide resulting in major cryptocurrency losses for the victims. The campaign, dubbed SnatchCrypto, is aimed...

Zero-trust implementation gaps leave companies vulnerable

While most organisations have a vision of zero trust or are in the process of implementing zero-trust initiatives, fewer than half of them can translate this vision into the solutions they are implementing because they lack some basic core fundamentals of zero trust....

Cloud infrastructure spend continues growth trajectory

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 6,6% year over year in the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21) to $18,6-billion. This is according to the International Data Corporation...

Crypto predictions for 2022

Crypto regulation is imminent in South Africa. In addition, ongoing price volatility and more formal links to the financial services sector are predicted for 2022, according to cryptocurrency exchange Luno. "Globally, we have seen moves to regulate crypto and we...

Offender monitoring market sees rapid growth

Berg Insight has released new findings on the market for Electronic Monitoring (EM) of offenders. The number of participants in EM programmes on a daily basis in Europe, North America and Latin America amounted to about 46 000, 282 000 and 71 000 respectively during...

Hybrid shopping, AI help meet shifting consumer preferences

Hybrid shopping – mixing physical and digital channels in shopping journeys – is on the rise as shopping habits consumers adopted out of necessity during the Covid-19 pandemic are becoming routine. This is among the findings of a global study, “Consumers want it all”,...

2021 ties for sixth-warmest year on record

Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, global...

More than a third of telehealth clinicians had patient data compromised

Global research unveils that 37% of healthcare providers across the META region have experienced cases where their employees compromised customers’ personal information during remote consultations. In addition to this, nearly half (45%) of providers believe that their...

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Securing the enterprise is critical

In the past two years, cloud computing and mobility have emerged as mainstream technologies, transforming enterprise technology strategies. What was initially a phenomenon of consumer technology moving into the business world is now driving the enterprise-wide IT...

Innovation Group SA leverages iLearn

iLearn has played a pivotal role in assisting Innovation Group SA to acquire technical skills and leverage off the benefits and improve staff efficiency and productivity from an enhanced training model. Innovation Group SA is the local representative office of the...

Every school in SA could have computers

Application delivery company Cloudware says every school in South Africa could have 100 Internet-connected computers within four years - and it would cost no more than what the government is already planning to spend on a private cloud alone, says Jonathan Young, head...

New security solutions from CA Technologies

CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies has announced new and updated identity-based solutions to help secure the increasing number of cloud, Web and mobile applications operating in today’s open enterprise. These new mobility and API solutions...

Kaspersky blocks Adobe vulnerability

Kaspersky Lab’s heuristic detection protection subsystem has successfully blocked attacks via a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash software. Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered this loophole, which was targeted by exploits distributed via a legitimate government...

Netherlands sees first LTE broadcast trial

KPN is the first network operator in the Netherlands to conduct live tests with LTE broadcast, in collaboration with Amsterdam ArenA and communications technology and services provider Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Samsung and IBM. The trial took place on Saturday...

Interactive Intelligence reports Q1 results

Interactive Intelligence has announced financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2014. “We continue to execute on our strategy of aggressively capturing cloud communications market share,” says Interactive Intelligence founder and CEO Dr Donald Brown....

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,...

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Senior BI Developer – Western Cape Cape Town

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