SA companies are shunning public cloud for AI workloads

South African organisations are shifting AI workloads out of the public cloud faster than their counterparts anywhere else in the world, according to new global research commissioned by Cloudera. The Great AI Re-Architecture Survey, conducted by Wakefield Research...

AI-driven cybercrime moves into operational mainstream

AI, infostealers, vulnerabilities, ransomware, and geopolitical conflict are reshaping organisational risk and compressing the time defenders have to respond, according to Flashpoint’s latest 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition. The threat...

MoonHacker uses NASA data to build lunar digital twins

The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and minerals like iron and titanium, but extracting and processing them will require special equipment. Where those resources can be found will dictate where to land and how to mine them. To help...

July economic activity reverses two months of decline

South Africa’s economic activity improved in July 2026, following a challenging performance in June and May, according to the PayInc Economic Index. Lower fuel prices provided some relief, while record transaction volumes point to resilient economic activity. However,...

GenAI will drive consolidated customer-facing roles

By 2027, 30% of the Fortune 500 will consolidate postpurchase tasks such as expansion, service, success and renewal into a unified customer-facing employee role, according to Gartner. Generative AI (GenAI) promises to automate greater portions of customer service...

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre accelerates quantum computing exploration

Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NvidiaCUDA Quantum platform accelerated by Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA...

How CIOs can advance diversity, equity, inclusion

As part of their leadership responsibilities, CIOs should leverage their influence and technology resources to take an active role in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, according to Gartner. "The disruption from the pandemic and social...

Scamming intensifies ahead of Black Widow premiere

After a few release date changes due to the pandemic, the world is finally set to experience the long awaited Black Widow movie. With all the restrictions driven by coronavirus, the organisers decided that the premiere of Black Widow will take place simultaneously in...

MS Teams saw 90% growth to 145m daily users

Microsoft Teams surged in popularity as a direct result of the Coronavirus outbreak in 2020. According to data presented by Tradingplatforms.com, the daily active users (DAU) of Microsoft Teams in April 2021 increased by over 93% compared to a similar period in 2020 -...

New approach needed to combat HIV-related stigma in SA

Globally, external HIV-related stigma is a major threat to all HIV prevention, care and treatment interventions - including the recently launched Universal Test and Treat strategy in South Africa and the 90-90-90 targets set by UNAIDS for the global response by 2020...

CompTIA members offer help to ransomware victims

CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, has announced several actions to help IT companies affected by the ransomware attack that has impacted organisations world-wide. CompTIA member companies are providing...

EOH responds to reports alleging imminent SITA blacklisting

Former local IT giant EOH has issued a statement following various media reports that it could be blacklisted by government's IT procurement arm, SITA. In a SENS statement this afternoon, the company gives an overview of how the situation arose, as well as its...

IXPs critical to improving Africa’s Internet ecosystem

A new report published by the Internet Society outlines the state of Internet interconnection in Africa and the critical role Internet Exchange Points (IXP) play in improving access and lowering costs. The report, entitled "Moving towards an interconnected Africa: the...

The rise of 5G and its impact on the next normal

Kathy Gibson reports - A massive 1-million 5G subscriptions are going to be added every day this year, taking the total to 580-million users by the end of 2021. Todd Ashton, vice-president and head of Ericsson South and East Africa, points out that 5G growth is...

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Centralising security management

Businesses of all sizes – and especially smaller organisations – often find that deploying and controlling workstation and mobile device protection is not an easy task. In this situation, centralised management tools can help, but barely half of companies understand...

Yellowfin announces version 6.3

Global business intelligence (BI) and analytics vendor, Yellowfin, has officially released the latest version of its BI software, Yellowfin 6.3, following a series of launch Webinars held across Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 May 2013.  Analysts and customers have...

Magix Security, STEALTHbits partner up

STEALTHbits Technologies, a leading developer of data and access governance solutions and Magix Security (Magix), an IT risk and security consulting firm, announced a partnership to offer STEALTHbits’ Data & Access Governance solutions to South African enterprises...

New WiFi standard on the horizon

The latest standard and fifth generation in WiFi protocols, the 802.11ac promises to deliver speeds on wireless LAN sites of up to three times faster than the previous 802.11n standard, finally making true high-definition video streaming at 500Mbps possible. With the...

Malicious e-mails abound in SA

Although cybercriminals and scammers are increasingly using social media to launch attacks on companies and individuals, they haven’t abandoned e-mail as a channel. In South Africa malicious e-mail traffic is amongst the highest in the world and so is the phishing...

Big data and presidential campaigns

After President Obama was re-elected in 2012, it emerged that his campaign had successfully used big data analytics in ways no other political campaign had done before. The team of over 100 people started with the core data of the voters' roll, modelled how they could...

Kaspersky named in Magic Quadrant

Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce that it has been recognised in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software. Kaspersky Lab was one of 18 software providers – out of more than 100 which were evaluated – that meet the technical and business...

The power of collaboration

While the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) mandates that all listed companies must adopt the practices and guidelines outlined by the King III report, non-listed companies are increasingly reaping the benefits of sustainability reporting in their annual reports by...

Trillium named a data quality leader

Master Data Management is the South African partner for Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality solutions, which has once again been named a data quality leader by independent analyst firm The Information Difference. Trillium Software was further...

Financial institutions at high risk

A financial institution not investing in a long term information security strategy is gambling with the protection of corporate and client data, according to information security experts at 4Di Privaca. The executive mind-set of viewing information security as a...

Senior Java Developer

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Hire Resolve's client is urgently seeking the expertise of a C# .Net Engineer in Gauteng that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.Responsibilites: Works collaboratively within product teams to create and support rich,...

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A listed company is looking for a Finance Reporting Analyst to join their dynamic and skilled team in Cape Town.Job Description:The candidate is going to support and carry out the financial reporting activities.Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Reviewing...

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