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...

Growing energy demand will limit ambitious climate goals

The global economy is on the cusp of a major shift where most of future global energy demand growth will come from emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The new realities of meeting this demand alongside the need for energy security, resilience and...

AI spend soars to unprecedented levels

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,7-trillion in 2026, a 49,5% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner. “Demand for AI infrastructure (including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices)...

Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

Top government technology trends for 2024

Gartner has identified the top five government technology trends for 2024 that can guide public sector leaders to deliver better, faster, and increasengly more cost-effective citizen services. "Escalating global turmoil, continual cyberthreats and the adoption of AI...

SA young scientists showcase pioneering research

Research projects by South African young scientists that aim to address the country's energy crisis, and determine the extent to which artificial intelligence (AI) can be ethically monitored, amongst others, will be showcased at this year's International Science...

Surge in gaming PCs, monitors set to continue

According to the latest forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Gaming Tracker, worldwide shipments of gaming PCs and monitors continue to grow at rates faster than their parent markets. For gaming PCs, which includes both desktop...

Covid-19, funding shortfalls devastate efforts to end TB by 2030

The Stop TB Partnership has released new data showing how the Covid-19 pandemic and dismally low levels of funding represent the main barriers to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ending tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The data from 2021 shows...

Ethics reaches the top of Gartner’s privacy hype cycle

Digital ethics sits at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2021, as people become increasingly aware of the value of their personal information and frustrated by lack of transparency and continuing misuse. Gartner defines digital ethics as the systems of...

Big increase for global internet bandwidth

Global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021, a return to "normal" over the previous year's Covid-driven surge of 34%. TeleGeography's Global Internet Geography Research Service analyzes the meaning behind internet capacity and traffic data sets, the factors...

Women still under-represented in world science

A study reporting on the inclusion and participation of women in over 120 science organisations that are co-ordinated at a global level finds that women are still under-represented. The study was coordinated by GenderInSITE (Gender in Science, Innovation, Technology...

Aspiring digital leaders need a new operating model

When we went into our first lockdown in 2020, industry analysts predicted the rapid advancement of digital transformation. What was overlooked by many was that, while we knew the old world was in crisis, the new digital world was still forming - complicating...

E-commerce, blockchain drive collectibles growth

A pandemic-driven boom in online sales of collectibles sent the global collectibles market to a record high in 2020. According to the research data analysed and published by MejoresApuestas.com, the global collectibles market was estimated to be worth $372-billion in...

Newly-discovered stealer targets gaming accounts

Kaspersky researchers have discovered an advanced Trojan, dubbed the BloodyStealer, sold on darknet forums and used to steal gamers' accounts on popular gaming platforms such as Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA Origin. With features to avoid analysis and detection, a...

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Oracle announces new x86 servers

Oracle has announced new x86 servers, based on the latest Intel Xeon processors E5-2600 v2 product family. Oracle’s new Sun Server X4-2 and Sun Server X4-2L have set a SPECjEnterprise2010 world record for the best result achieved on a two-socket x86 server. Running...

Cloud computing for government

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IT skills development critical to SA success

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Altonet announces HP Autonomy LiveVault 7.7

Altonet, local provider of the HP Autonomy range of backup and data protection services, has announced the release of HP’s latest version of its Autonomy LiveVault backup solution - LiveVault 7.7. This new version delivers integration with VMware vSphere support that...

Rectron, Samsung clean up print environment

Rectron South Africa, a leading distributor of computers, peripherals and accessories have introduced an exclusive trade-in promotion with Samsung, where Rectron customers and resellers will receive a R500 discount voucher off any Samsung printer, when they bring in...

PRISM break: US cloud customers defect

In June, thanks to one of its now former and very famous employees blowing the whistle, the news broke that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) was using a programme, code-named PRISM, to spy on e-mails, Internet phone calls, file transfers, photos, videos and...

WiFi will be the next corporate must-have

WiFi is not new. Although it’s hard to track its origins, it’s safe to say WiFi was being used on a large scale for the first time in the late 1990s, which probably qualifies it as being prehistoric in tech terms. But there has been renewed interest in the technology...

Cleansing big data stores

Data storage has quickly moved from gigabytes to terabytes, petabytes, exabytes and even zettabytes in some industries. The need is greater than ever before to collect, cleanse, correlate and analyse large stores of data, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, a...

DiData forum to focus on contact centre

The contact centre has been in constant evolution since the 1990s, with some experts stating that it will be irrelevant in 2020. The current stage of evolution is the proliferation of channels, where a number of different channels are being used to interact with...

Data virtualisation is about business

Data virtualisation is not about IT – it’s about giving decision-makers immediate access to all the relevant information and only the relevant information, says Chris O'Connell, MD at BITanium. Information has become the strategic business advantage; hence how well...

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