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...

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)...

The whole truth about whole grains

According to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - The Whole Truth about Whole Grains - there is huge opportunity in food system transformation, but it's critical to change what is grown, processed, and consumed thoughtfully and gradually. Currently, most...

There’s a wealth of opportunities in African banking

While the African banking market has seen a withdrawal of global banks over the last five years, the opportunity for localised banking has seen the opposite, driven by the expansion of African banking groups into the continent and led mostly by South African, West...

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....

Robocall fraud will cost consumers $40bn next year

Consumers will lose $40-billion to fraudulent robocalls globally in 2022; rising from $31-billion in 2021, according to a new study from Juniper Research. Fraudulent robocalls pose threats to consumers by encouraging the disclosure of personal information that...

Sub-Saharan Africa sees massive increase in mobile financial services

Nearly half of all consumers in sub-Saharan Africa use mobile financial services in 2021 - a more-than three-fold increase in the last six years. The Mobile Financial Services on the Rise report from Ericsson also highlights the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on...

You can reduce cyberattacks on the business by 60%

In six out of 10 (63%) cyberattacks investigated by the Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team, adversaries used password brute force and vulnerability exploitation as initial vectors to compromise the organisation's environment. Results of Kaspersky's new Incident...

China pushes IPv6: should other countries take note?

China has set a goal of running a single-stack IPv6 network by 2030. To achieve this goal of having a single IPv6 networking stack for the nation, authorities have issued time-specific milestones to relevant agencies and operators within the Chinese jurisdiction. Most...

Largest public dataset on human trafficking released

The International Organization for Migration (IOM)  has released a new synthetic dataset on human trafficking, made possible by technology developed in partnership with Microsoft Research. The dataset represents the largest collection of primary human trafficking case...

UN Food Systems Summit told the world has the resources to end hunger

The world has the resources to end hunger. This is the word from African Development Bank president Dr Akinwumi Adesina in a message to the United Nations Food Systems Summit. Convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres, the event is billed by its organisers as...

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Financial institutions and disaster recovery

Business continuity in the payment industry is becoming more important than ever as most companies in Africa are ill prepared when it comes to disaster recovery, says Lionel Slowe, head of the SADC project at BankservAfrica. According to the latest EMC disaster...

Making 3-D Secure work for e-tailers

3-D Secure, the security system for online credit card sales, can help to prevent fraud – and, says PayGate MD Peter Harvey, there are some simple steps merchants can take to ensure they don’t lose sales because of buyer fears. “Online retailers are very vulnerable to...

Mustek to supply new NEC projectors

Mustek, the country’s largest assembler and distributor of personal computers and complementary ICT products, has announced the availability of NEC’s latest projector range in South Africa. The NEC VE series, consisting of two models has been designed to meet the...

Teachers to drive a love of maths, science

More than 130 teachers from across South Africa and Africa will this week meet with government officials and education experts to explore ways of getting more learners interested in studying science and maths at the first Intel Educator Academy to be held on the...

Mobile transactions see R1bn in six months

Mobile transaction enabler wiGroup has facilitated in-store phone transactions worth over R1bn in 2013 – a 500% increase over 2012 - as major retailers, including Shoprite Checkers and Pick n Pay have come on line with applications like EeziCoupon and MTN Mobile...

Key 2014 contact centre trends

Hosted technology provider 1Stream has released a white paper detailing the key trends affecting the South African contact centre industry, including technology providers in the space. “The market has definitely grown dramatically over the last five years,” says Bruce...

Best practices boost BYOD security

As consumerisation continues to transform IT, organisations are moving quickly to design strategies to allow and embrace bring your own device (BYOD), says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix South Africa. Empowered to choose the best device to get their work...

Open source vendors are not too small

While many companies see open source as a way of increasing IT efficiencies and greatly reducing costs, there is a pattern that is seeing them withdraw once they notice that big-name vendors are generally not involved in open source delivery. This is according to...

Quality measurement in the contact centre

Call volumes and talk time are the last metrics a contact centre should look at, when assessing quality of service, says Karl Reed, chief marketing and solutions Officer at Elingo. A decade ago, the measures of an effective contact centre included the number of calls...

POPI highlights need for cyber-risk policy

South African businesses are set to face even more legislation with the introduction of the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PoPI). The Bill has taken current restrictions to a whole new level, since it even restricts the way in which you may go about...

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