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...

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...

Apple Mac loses race with Dell and HP PCs in US

As of January 2024, there were roughly 331-million Internet users in the US and nearly 40% of them have at least one desktop PC in their household, while 68% own a laptop. But although US consumers are spoiled for choice when shopping for a PC, Apple`s Mac is rarely...

Consumers will drive rapid growth in customer experience market

The global customer experience management market will reach $32,87-billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 15,8% from 2024 to 2030, according to market researchers Grand View Research. Customer experience management (CEM) solutions are gaining widespread popularity in diverse...

Microsoft takes over 42 hacking sites

Microsoft has seized 42 websites from a and intelligence-gathering China-based hacking group which it has dubbed Nickel. A federal court granted Microsoft's request to allow it Digital Crimes Unit to take over the US-based websites and redirecting traffic to secure...

Component shortages stifle African smartphone growth

Africa's smartphone market saw shipments decline 2,3% quarter on quarter (QoQ) during Q3 2021, according to the latest figures announced by International Data Corporation (IDC). While the region displayed signs of recovery in H1 2021, IDC's newly released Quarterly...

How the network has had to adapt in 2021

Responding to disruptions (45%) and accommodating new business needs (40%) were the top network challenges during 2021. This is among the findings from Cisco's based on a survey of 1 534 IT professionals across 13 countries, which focused on Network as a Service...

Equip managers to succeed in a hybrid world

Organisations must focus on equipping people managers, who are the stewards of sustainable performance, with the right skillsets to ensure they and their teams succeed in the hybrid world, according to Gartner. To achieve this, Gartner recommends organizations pursue...

Prepare infrastructure and operations now

Gartner has highlighted the six trends that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must start preparing for in the next 12 to 18 months. "I&O leaders need to drive change, not simply absorb it," says Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice-president at Gartner....

NTT data centre on track for April 2022 opening

Growthpoint Properties is on track to complete the turnkey data centre development of NTT Johannesburg 1 Data Centre at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, in early 2022. NTT is represented in Africa and the Middle East by Dimension Data, the South African...

Solana tipped to outperform other cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency Solana is likely to again outperform both bitcoin and Ethereum, the world's two biggest digital currencies, in 2022. The bullish prediction from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes amid another sharp bearish dip for leading...

Thousands of organisations at risk from Kafdrop

Researchers at cybersecurity company Spectral have discovered a security flaw in Kafdrop, a popular open-source UI and management interface for Apache Kafka clusters that has been downloaded more than 20-million times. They believe companies that could be affected...

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SAP Business Suite sees market growth

SAP Business Suite software, powered by SAP HANA, continues to experience strong market momentum. Since its launch in January 2013, SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA has enabled customers to run their businesses in realtime by bringing together business...

CommVault protects cloud data

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NSA surveillance hype must not be ignored

Last year, when Edward Snowden dropped the revelation that the United States National Security Agency was peering into the private data of individuals and companies, the world sat up and took notice. All the hype that security companies had been generating over the...

Rectron wins at D-Link awards

At a recent awards ceremony in Rome, Italy, D-Link, a global leader in design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications acknowledged its channel partners in the annual Distributor Excellence Awards. A major...

Cloudgate ends 40-year reign of desktop PC

Desktop computers have become a drain on the IT resources of organisations. “An IT department has a primary function: to deliver applications to end-users. Everything else - security, uptime, backups, support and maintenance - are important, but secondary to the...

Surge protection key for the SOHO

Lightening strikes, unstable power and voltage fluctuations are a common occurrence in South Africa, says Elrica Quick, APC specialist at Drive Control Corporation. Power surges and dips, as well as the massive voltage fluctuations caused by lightning, can damage...

Cloud bursting solves network overload

Research from World Wide Worx shows that e-commerce is growing at around 30% a year in South Africa, and that total spend on goods, services and Internet infrastructure is R59 billion. Although this is great news for business, we have to consider how servers will cope...

Orange joins EU ERP initiative

Orange Business Services has joined a European Union-sponsored initiative to play a key role in the development of new business intelligence and IT standards that are set to improve management tools used by the shipping industry. A key goal is to help shipping...

Technology trends yield to social trends

2014 will be far less about new technologies and much more about how existing technologies and trends are going to change the workplace and our social lives. That's the word from Richard Firth, serial entrepreneur and CEO of MIP Holdings. "Every year sees various...

10 things to watch out for when shopping

The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) may be there to protect you when you’re buying goods and services, but it’s not a free ticket to complain. Consumer Goods and Services Ombudsman, advocate Neville Meville, says consumers need to understand they also have...

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