The first shipment of products from South Africa to other African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) countries has embarked from the eThekwini port. President Cyril Ramaphosa hailed it as the start of preferential trade by South Africa under the AfCFTA. "African...

By 2027, more than half of chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) will secure funding for data literacy and artificial intelligence (AI) literacy programs, fueled by enterprise failure to realise expected value from generative AI (GenAI), according to Gartner. "Few...

New research carried out by security company Kaspersky unveils disparity over a future shared with augmented people - in their family, workplace, and even personal life. The study finds that a lack of understanding around human augmentation could be holding back...

The Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to have the hard conversations; reassess their strategies and negotiate better terms - and those that have adapted well will be positioned to grow the South African economy out of its slump. This is according to Isaac...

Data calculated by Finbold indicates that bitcoin's average daily trading volume between 1 January 2021, and 15 March 2021, is at $70,18-billion. The figure accounts for 39,41% of gold's $178,97-billion average daily trading volume for the same period. Elsewhere,...

Work-from-home (WFH) has resulted in exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals, armed with powerful cloud-based tools, cloud storage and endless targets, according to the 2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. "As working environments evolved, so did the...

Certain artisan skills have been left off the recently gazetted draft Critical Skills List. This is according to Marisa Jacobs, MD of Xpatweb, who adds: "This should be cause for concern for affected organisations and we encourage them to review the list urgently,."...

The EMEA external storage systems market value was down 2,8% year on year in dollars and 9,8% in euros in 2020Q4, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. The exchange rate played a central role in making the...

Kathy Gibson reports – South African enterprises are starting to adopt hybrid cloud and within five years it will be the predominant IT model. This is the word from Rowen Grierson, regional sales director of Nutanix sub-Saharan Africa, sharing the results of Nutanix’s...

Dimension Data has released its 2021 Hybrid Cloud Report, which highlights the critical need for business agility, and the role hybrid cloud has had in helping businesses achieve this. Before Covid-19, many companies had embarked on digital transformation journeys,...