AMD fires up AI, compute capabilities
AMD and Microsoft featured how AMD products, including the upcoming AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator, AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Ryzen CPUs with AI engines, are enabling new services and compute capabilities across cloud and generative AI, Confidential Computing, Cloud...
Nvidia to accelerate AI workloads on Azure
Nvidia continues to collaborate with Microsoft to build AI infrastructure, with Microsoft introducing additional H100-based virtual machines to Microsoft Azure to accelerate demanding AI workloads. At its Ignite conference in Seattle yesterday, Microsoft announced its...
CEOs look forward to economic boom
More CEOs anticipate an economic boom (60%) than stagnation (40%) in 2021 and 2022. This is according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner, which shows that most respondents (35%) anticipate returning to or exceeding 2019 revenue levels as early...
Global chip shortage to persist for another year
The worldwide semiconductor shortage will persist through 2021, and is expected to recover to normal levels by the second quarter of 2022, according to Gartner. "The semiconductor shortage will severely disrupt the supply chain and will constrain the production of...
Absa to implement finance and procurement programme
A programme to transform Absa's finance and procurement processes as part of its digitisation journey has made significant progress as its Kenyan operations switched to an integrated, fully cloud-based solution last month. The programme will go live in South Africa...
Euro ink tank printer output hit 1bn pages in Q1
The European market for refillable ink tank printers hit a new milestone in Q1 after the year-on-year volume of average number of pages printed (ANP) soared 33% to top 1-billion, according to Context. The findings come from a relatively new printer metric launched...
Smart city startups set to triple revenue by 2025
Smart city startups worldwide are expected to generate $110,7-billion in revenue by 2025, a trifold increase in five years, according to data presented by AksjeBloggen.com. Smart cities aim to cater to the growing urban population while improving on safety,...
Formerly unknown rootkit secretly controls networks
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered TunnelSnake, an ongoing advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign, active since 2019, which has targeted regional diplomatic entities in Asia and Africa. The attackers deployed a previously unknown rootkit dubbed Moriya. This piece...
Post Office action could stifle e-commerce in SA
The SA Post Office has launched court action against PostNet and the SA Express Parcel Association, aiming to make the Post Office the only operator that can deliver packages weighing 1kg and less. If the court rules in the Post Office's favour, the impact on courier...
FBI confirms DarkSide as oil pipeline hacker
The FBI has confirmed that the Darkside ransomware is responsible for the compromise of the Colonial Pipeline networks. "We continue to work with the company and our government partners on the investigation," says the FBI in a terse statement issued yesterday....
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SAP Africa to host its first Partner Summit
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VMware positioned in Leaders Quadrant
VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has announced that Gartner has placed VMware in the Leaders Quadrant in its 2013 report, Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualisation Infrastructure. According to Gartner, “As of mid-2013, almost...
Fortinet expands partner programme
Fortinet, a world leader in high-performance network security introduced the expansion of its partner programme for the EMEA and APAC regions. The new version of the FortiPartner Programme (FPP) is designed to further align with Fortinet’s business strategy in...
EMC expands data protection portfolio
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The rise of the machines
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Business, IT face disconnect in SA
Each year, South African small and medium businesses lose significant amounts of money because most business leaders have little or no understanding of how IT contributes to their companies’ performance. Chris Welham, executive director of Space Age Technologies – an...
JDA Software wins supply chain recognition
JDA Software Group has announced that is has been named to the 2013 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100, an annual listing of supply chain solutions and services providers that demonstrate profound ability to move their customers toward supply chain excellence....
Security Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
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Systems Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
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Backend Python Engineer (Remote) – Western Cape Cape Town
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Java Developer – Spring at Datonomy Solutions – Gauteng Sandton
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