SASE market jumps 31%
The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market reached a significant milestone in 2023, breaking the $8-billion barrier with 31% growth to $8,4-billion. The increasing necessity for secure cloud and remote work solutions largely fueled the robust growth, according to a...
Vodacom, Microsoft join forces to bolster digital skills
In a move designed to reduce the 44% youth unemployment rate, Vodacom South Africa and Microsoft South Africa have joined forces to provide free access to digital training courses on the Mzansi Digital Learning platform. Recognising the digital skills gap in a country...
SA workers start returning to the office
Since the easing of the hard lockdown restrictions, thousands of workers have returned to the office in towns and cities across South Africa. New data from IWG shows that visits to its South African centres are up by 25% since the beginning of January. Research by IWG...
Game source code stolen in Electronic Arts hack
Source code of some popular Electronic Arts games has already been offered for sale of the darknet, following a breach of the games company’s systems last week. The company has been quick to reassure players that their security has not been compromised. Electronic...
Spoofing attacks have doubled in recent months
Email spoofing involves the creation of fake emails that seem legitimate to trick users into taking action that will benefit the attacker. This can be downloading malware, providing access to systems or data, offering up personal details, or transferring money. Often...
Young scientists fly the SA flag at Hong Kong science fair
Innovative South African scientific research about detecting and classifying cardiac arrhythmia and prosthesis control using muscle impulses will compete against other high-tech studies in the 2021 Virtual Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) Science Fair...
Wesbank systems are back online
WesBank's systems are back up and running. Ghana Msibi, CEO of WesBank Motor, confirms that a resolution to the technical issues experienced last week has been found and systems have resumed. "Our IT teams are still hard at work to ensure a seamless transition and...
5G smartphone, macrocell base station semiconductor market to hit $260bn
Two new forecasts from International Data Corporation (IDC) shed light on the sizable opportunity for 5G-related semiconductors in smartphones and macrocell base transceiver stations (BTSs) for the period 2021–2025. Over the next five years the cumulative market size...
Cellular IoT shipments exceeded 300m units
Berg Insight estimates that global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 14% to a new record level of 303-million in 2020. Annual revenues grew slower at 8% to reach $3,4-billion. While the Covid-19 pandemic affected demand in several major application areas in...
Software-defined infrastructure software pushed past $12bn in 2020
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Software-Defined Infrastructure Tracker, the worldwide software-defined infrastructure (SDI) software market reached $12.17 billion during calendar year 2020, an increase of 5% over the...
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Blue Turtle, Gigamon sign VAR agreement
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CA now VCE certified
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Six business trends for 2013
Making predictions in a world that moves as quickly as the one people live in today is brave and perhaps even a little foolish. But based on the way the world evolved last year, here are a few trends Stephanie Houslay, GM at Acceleration Media, expects to play out in...
Getting founding documents right
“If you’re in the process of starting a new business and want to do things right, you probably already know that it’s important to have the necessary 'founding documents' - your memorandum of incorporation and shareholders’ agreement – in place. But do you know what...
ICT critical to business survival in 2013
If users reflects on the progress made within the projects and portfolio management space, and the level of development and integration of solutions, it is clear that this area of ICT is set to play an increasingly important role in revenue generation and business...
Enterprises can learn from start-ups
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mapIT puts Entebbe on the map
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NEC expands MultiSync V range
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Fujitsu announces new displays
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Electric cars: success by a different route
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