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%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

Digital investments market to hit $2,8trn in 2024

The assets under the management of the digital investments market - including robo-advisors and neobrokers - have snowballed over the past years, rising from $3,8-billion in 2017 to a whopping $2,26-trillion in 2023. And the entire market is expected to continue...

How to fight stress across social media

Stress Awareness Month, observed every April since 1992, serves as a critical reminder of the importance of managing stress for maintaining users’ mental and physical health. Social media has emerged as a significant source of stress, contributing to the proliferation...

Timid growth for EMEA external enterprise storage

The EMEA external storage systems market value was up 3,3% year on year in dollars but down 5,5% in euros in 2021Q2, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. The trend was similar within the subregions, with...

SA brands dominate African value rankings

South African brands dominate the 2021 Brand Finance Africa 150 ranking once again, with the entire top 10 hailing from the country. In total, 81 South African brands feature with a cumulative brand value of $29-billion, equating to 73% of the total brand value in the...

Dramatic transition for bank chief risk officers

Global climate change, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, persistent low interest rate environments and the growing demands of regulators are testing the resilience of banks and setting their risk management in a new direction. Worldwide, banks are making major...

Robotics industry to pass $500bn mark in 2030

Robots have not taken over the world yet, but there will definitely be a lot more of them by the end of the decade. GlobalData forecasts that the robotics industry will pass the $500-billion mark in 2030, after a decade of growing at double-digit rates. That is an...

Financial services face higher ransomware recovery costs

Financial services organisations that have been hit by ransomware face more than $2-million in recovery costs. These are among the findings from Sophos's survey report, "The State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2021," showing how mid-sized financial services...

Alviva reports year-end results

Alviva Holdings has reported that its revenue for the year ended 30 June 2021 is 1% higher than last year at R15-billion. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EDBIDTA) are 25% up at R887-million. Earnings per share are 267,3 cents, an increase...

Adapt IT shows resilience

Adapt IT has reported an overall increase in revenue and earnings for the financial year ended 30 June 2021. Revenue increased by 1% to R1,503-billion (2020: R1,483-billion), at muted organic growth of 1%. The sector and geographic diversification had served the...

SAP Africa appoints Tracy Bolton as COO

Tracy Bolton has been appointed as the new chief operating officer for SAP Africa region. Cathy Smith, MD of SAP Africa, says Bolton has played a crucial role in helping SAP expand its offering to new customers and drive cloud adoption among African enterprises....

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CA study shows DevOps drives revenue

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QlikView boosts customers’ BI

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Software resellers still needed in cloud era

Ever since the cloud has appeared and rapidly expanded, many have warned that it would rain on the parade of several ICT channel players, even threatening to wash some of them away entirely. Those said to be  especially at risk of extinction due to the advent of the...

Better bandwidth increases DDoS risk

On the flipside of the bandwidth boom in South Africa there has been a significant increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at an application level in the country, says Perry Hutton, regional director – Africa, Fortinet. Until recently, distributed...

SUSE Cloud 2.0 aids cloud deployment

Based on OpenStack Grizzly, SUSE Cloud 2.0 provides users with the capability to set up a mixed hypervisor private cloud evironment which can be rapidly deployed and easily managed. “It is a solution that that helps enterprises to become more agile while reducing IT...

Océ launches PRISMAprepare 6.1

Océ South Africa, a leader in digital document management and delivery, has announced the launch of PRISMAprepare version 6.1, the company’s latest generation of all-in-one document preparation software. This solution streamlines the make-ready process from...

Time to get social

Social networking has been one of the most profound innovations to sweep the world. Today, it accounts for around 20% of all Internet traffic, a huge increase considering it was virtually zero five years ago, according to ComScore, says Frank Reinelt, senior director...

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