Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

MeerKAT and Webb measure farthest fast radio burst

First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe. Their origin remains uncertain, particularly since most are seen once and never again. Now, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space...

Robust performance for ACSA as domestic travel recovers

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) says it is well on its way to a full recovery - with some of its airports even exceeding projections - following a bustling and active peak and festive season that saw passenger volumes climbing strongly towards the end of last...

Over £1m invested in African innovators

The Royal Academy of Engineering is investing over £1-million this year in alumni of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation programme through grants, prizes and accelerator programme awards, to facilitate long-term success of innovations addressing local...

Cyber arms race at a tipping point

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...

Draft Critical Skills List could be bad news for artisan employers

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,."...

Enterprise storage market still down in Q4

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...

SA enterprises move quickly to hybrid cloud model

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...

Cloud critical to meet immediate business needs

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,...

EMEA PC shipments set for record growth

The ongoing Covid-19 lockdown continues driving a surge in demand for PCs and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region witnessed impressive PC unit shipments growth last year. However, 2021 is set to deliver a new record. According to data presented by...

Attacks against remote access protocols continue to rise

In mid-March of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the world was facing a pandemic and countries rushed to enact measures to stem the spread. A popular measure to combat the pandemic was switching companies to remote work. However, with...

Growth for global server market in 2021

The growing adoption of new technologies such as big data and a surge in high-performance computing continue fuelling demand for servers across different sectors, according to research group AksjeBloggen.com, which says the global server market is expected to hit a...

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