How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

GenAI adoption a top issue for legal, compliance, privacy leaders

Rapid generative AI (GenAI) adoption is the top-ranked issue for the next two years for legal, compliance and privacy leaders, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In a September 2023 survey of 179 legal, compliance and privacy leaders, 70% of respondents reported...

Termination notice sent to VMware partners

VMware partners around the world have received notice that their existing partner contracts will be terminated from 4 Febuary 2024. Selected partners will attain partner status under the new VMware by Broadcom umbrella. In the absence of more information, rumour is...

Slow growth for converged systems

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, worldwide converged systems market revenue grew 0.3% year over year to $3.9 billion during the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20). "The overall converged systems market...

EMEA external storage market on slow path to recovery

The EMEA external storage systems market was down 5,4% year-on-year in dollars and 10% in euros in 2020Q3, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Once again, the quarter saw marked differences across...

Global digital payments market set for 23,7% growth

While it was already under way prior to the pandemic, the global shift to digital payments has been positively affected by the crisis. According to the research data analysed and published by Finnish website Sijoitusrahastot, the global digital payments market grew by...

SA kicks off trade agreements with Africa, UK

1 January 2021 marked the start of preferential trade for South Africa under two new trade agreements: the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and with the UK under the SACU, Mozambique-UK Economic Partnership Agreement. South Africa has put in place the...

WikiLeaks’ Assange avoids extradition to the US

Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, has escaped extradition to the US – for now. A UK judge today ruled that extraditing him to the US would be “oppressive”, citing his mental health and risk of suicide. The US is appealing the ruling, and...

Alibaba’s Jack Ma missing for two months

Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire Jack Ma hasn’t been seen in public for more than two months, and is feared missing after he levied criticism at the Chinese government. In October, Ma went public with criticism of the government’s banking rules, saying in an...

Renewables investments set to bounce back to pre-Covid levels

Global capex spending on renewables is poised to bounce back in 2021, rising 8,5% to $255-billion - in line with 2019 levels. According to Roger Diwan, vice president: financial services and the IHS Markit Energy Advisory Service, annual spending is expected to remain...

5G coverage to reach half the population by 2025

5G technology global coverage will grow by  253,84% in the next five years. By 2025, about 53% of the global population at 4,14-billion will have access to technology, according to data presented by Bankr. By 2021, the network coverage will reach an estimated...

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