Africa is ‘a uniquely appealing green investment destination’
KPMG has released a new report highlighting Africa's significant investment opportunity in renewable energy, detailing nearly $250-billion untapped green investment opportunities in areas such as solar, wind, and hydrogen. As it stands, Africa will need $277-billion...
Healthy half-year growth for public cloud services
Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $315,5-billion in the first half of 2023 (1H23) - an increase of 19,1% over the same period in 2022 - according to IDC's latest Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker. Software as a Service -...
South Africans still excluded from financial services
Kathy Gibson reports - The South African financial market is a paradox in that a majority of people have bank accounts, but 80% of them don't have access to financial services. Khulekani Mathe, head of financial inclusion at the Banking Association South Africa,...
Expect a surge in coastal flooding, says NASA
High-tide floods - also called nuisance floods or sunny day floods - are already a familiar problem in many coastal cities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported a total of more than 600 floods in US coastal towns in 2019. Starting in the...
Bad debt increases by 26% – Gartner
A Gartner analysis of 796 financial statements reveals that provisions and write-offs of bad debt increased from $9,750-million in 2019 to $12,262-million in 2020 -- a 25,8% increase. The standard approach to determining receivables risk underestimates the risk of...
Gartner identifies four types of tech buyers
Seventy percent of global technology buyers are exploring more ways to purchase technology this year, however vendor engagement strategies continue to underdeliver when it comes to meeting tech buyer expectations, according to a survey by Gartner. "Technology...
Top maths and computer science boffin graduates at 19
Kialan Pillay is graduating with a first class bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematical statistics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) at just 19 years old, having finished his high school career as the top matriculant in KwaZulu Natal at just 15...
SAIGA says proper financial systems could have saved wasted R26bn
The Southern African Institute of Government Auditors (SAIGA) has described the latest general report on local government audit outcomes - which shows that local government finances have reached R26-billion in irregular expenditure in the 2019-20 financial year - as...
Chip shortages drive demand for refurbished devices
New electronic devices are in short supply due to a global shortage of semiconductors, affecting particularly the production of new laptops, desktops and tablets. This is the word from Kwirirai Rukowo, GM of Qrent, who comments: "Currently, companies have been waiting...
Fraudsters target medical suppliers
From fake cures for coronavirus to phishing scams, fraudsters have been taking advantage of people's fears around the pandemic. Now, South African medical manufacturers and suppliers are also in their sights. Fraudsters are targeting established companies that...
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KEMP introduces new load balancers
KEMP Technologies has announced the availability of three new virtual load balancers — the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) 200, 2000 and 5000, to the local market. These new virtual load balancers dramatically increases application performance enabling customers to deploy...
SA and IT outsourcing in the coming years
With the South African IT services market expected to reach R53,3-billion by 2015, according to BMI TechKnowledge’s (BMI-T) South African IT Services Market Sizing and Forecast, and it is safe to say there is still considerable opportunity for IT players in their...
Ending server sprawl
Companies face important IT challenges today. Not only do they have to deploy and run their business applications with agility, but their infrastructures need to scale to support growth while maintaining quality of service – all in a cost-effective manner, says...
Fortinet expands virtual security ecosystem
Fortinet a global leader in high-performance network security - announced an expansion of its virtual security ecosystem that now supports Microsoft’s Windows Server Hyper-V as well as the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualisation infrastructure. Designed for...
OneStream wins EMC certification
Ovations, South Africa’s foremost provider of business process transformation solutions, has achieved the nation’s first formal EMC Corporation Certification Solution designation for its proprietary OneStream solution based on the EMC Documentum xCP, EMC Captiva and...
Bowens wins with Xerox colour presses
Personalised digital printing company Bowens Bureau grew its photo book business to more than 20% of its overall revenue after the company bought a Xerox iGen3 press to launch RapidStudio, a new line of business, five years ago. It now plans to increase that figure to...
Nokia Lumia 1020 arrives in SA
The Nokia Lumia 1020 has touched down in South Africa, establishing a new benchmark in imaging. Boasting a second generation 41 megapixel sensor, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is unlike any smartphone in the market today, reinventing zoom by enabling people to discover more...
F5 introduces Synthesis architecture
F5 Networks (FFIV) has announced its new F5 Synthesis architectural vision, promoting the delivery and orchestration of software defined application services (SDAS) throughout data centre, cloud, and hybrid environments. Powered by an elastic, multi-tenant and...
Liebherr invests R27m in the ATI
The Liebherr Academy, a social responsibility imitative of Liebherr-Africa, will have invested as much as R27-million in training artisans at the black empowered training institute, the Artisan Training Institute (ATI), by the end of 2014. The current aim is to train...
PCC leads to effective CRM
If users still wait for customers to call them, their contact centre strategy is about to become outdated, says Deon Scheepers, strategic consultant EMEA Interactive Intelligence. Simply waiting for calls to come in, or worse – making outbound sales calls scripted to...
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