Private sector urged to be ambitious and aggressive in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa 2024 Morocco – As the digital agenda takes off, countries across Africa are racing to provide the basic infrastructure needed to make it a reality. But years of state-owned telco monopolies and a shortage of funding mean...
AI shaping the future of business as executives embrace it
A new global study by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has revealed that more than eight out of 10 (86%) of senior business leaders have already deployed artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance existing revenue streams or create new ones. The "TCS AI for Business...
Public sector slow to address cybersecurity issues
There's nothing quite like a global pandemic with legally enforceable lockdowns to expose the public sector's dependence on ageing digital infrastructure. While the SolarWinds "sunburst" attack made headlines in 2020 for its impact on private corporations like Cisco...
Digital transformation set to take off across the region
Digital transformation investments in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) are set to double across the 2020 to 2025 period, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). The researcher says that digital transformation spending in...
Cisco opens Umbrella Cloud Security data centres in SA
Cisco South Africa has launched two Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) data centres in South Africa. Located in Johannesburg and Cape Town, they offer local customers closer access to the cloud anytime, anywhere. "South Africa is a key market for Cisco and...
Top five payment scams to look out for
All businesses are at risk of being scammed at some point, and just one incident can cost a company millions. Ryan Mer, CEO of Know Your Payee (KYP) platform provider eftsure Africa, says that fraudsters are constantly finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and...
Original Banksy work offered as an NFT edition
A unique mural by the UK artist Banksy is to be made available as an NFT edition. The work, which is commonly known as 'Gorilla in a Pink Mask', was executed twenty years ago in Bristol, the city where Banksy grew up and cut his teeth as a graffiti artist in the early...
Solutions sought for Africa’s most pressing problems
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, about 17-million tons of plastic waste are produced annually, and 2,9-megatons of e-waste are generated on the continent. To address these and other issues, KTN Global Alliance Africa has announced the launch of five challenges as part of...
Intel sets up Moore’s Law for the next decade
Intel has announced key packaging, transistor and quantum physics breakthroughs fundamental to advancing Moore's Law and driving computing well into the next decade. At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2021, Intel outlined its path toward more...
The state of SA’s national roads this festive season
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has issued advice of the state of the national road network, during the upcoming festive season. While the national road network makes up just over 22 000km of South Africa's total road network of 750 000km, it...
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Ensuring personalised customer communication
Social media is becoming an increasingly popular channel of communication for consumers wanting to lodge complaints about poor service or inferior products. Does this mark a change in preference over more traditional routes, such as telephone, fax, e-mail and the Web?...
Trend Micro grows cloud security solutions
Reinforcing on-going support of the AWS shared security model, Trend Micro Incorporated, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) Advanced Technology Partner and global leader in cloud security, announced at the AWS Summit 2014 new initiatives that will help organisations fulfil...
Debunking virtualisation myths
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Stratus introduces everRun Enterprise
Stratus Technology has announced the availability of everRun Enterprise, a next-generation software defined availability solution for downtime prevention. Designed to deliver mainframe-like reliability to virtualised workloads, everRun Enterprise keeps Windows and...
Data centres support cloud-based services
Data centres in South Africa are riding a wave of opportunity as the increased availability of bandwidth, proliferation of connected devices, and regulatory compliance requirements have caused explosive growth in data loads. In particular, the need for enterprises to...
Consumers’ sensitive info still vulnerable
Current electronic payment systems are, in most instances, inherently vulnerable to on-going cybercrime. This means that South African merchants may find themselves exposed to cyber theft if security measures are not improved. This is the opinion of Vaughan Alexander,...
SaaS-based business continuity in demand
Business continuity remains a hot button for all organisations, we just need to reflect on the recent unexpected flooding and load shedding to note that continuity problems strike when they are least expected. It is as a result of this that the provision of services...
Convergence is a must, not a nice-to-have
Local telecommunications consultancy CommsCloud says local companies stand to realise a lot more value from converging their voice and data networks into one, IP-enabled converged network than they actually realise. Next generation converged networks are designed to...
Orange, Orangeworks in trademark dispute
On 22 November 2013 the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down a rare trade mark judgment. It’s marked as one that’s not worth reporting in the law reports. Which is a pity, because it is of considerable importance. The case pitted the international telecoms...
Polystar opens new office in Johannesburg
Polystar has announced the official opening of a new regional sales and support office in Johannesburg, South Africa, effective 1 April 2014. Following the current business growth and the increasing demand in the region, Polystar continues to invest in its market...
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