In a local survey of 500 CTOs, Directors, C-suite respondents and business owners, Fortinet reveals that 89% of South African business leaders view cloud security as a major concern. The insights also show how businesses are focusing on overcoming significant barriers...

Microsoft South Africa has set up the YES Microsoft AI Skills Initiative, aiming to skill up 300 000 young South Africans on artificial intelligence (AI). “This partnership is transformative,” says Ravi Naidoo, CEO of Youth Employment Service. “We can use AI to drive...

Global IT distributors appear to have worked hard during lockdown to support their resellers and enhance key channel partnerships, although there's more work to do as cloud emerges as a key focus area, according to research organisation Context's latest ChannelWatch...

The worldwide market for smart home devices is expected to grow 4,1% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling more than 854-million units, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Worldwide shipments are forecast to be more than...

Kathy Gibson is at VMworld 2020 – Remote working, coupled with a move to process automation, is driving rapid developments around edge computing. Meanwhile, next-generation applications will leverage a raft of new technologies including AI, machine learning and 5G...

VMware and Nvidia has announced a broad partnership to deliver both an end-to-end enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data centre, cloud and edge that uses NVidia DPUs (data processing units) to support existing and next-generation applications....

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2020 – Cloud and cloud-native architectures have lowered the barrier to entry for new applications. In fact, as many as 75% of new applications will be custom-built, says Ajay Patel, senior vice-president and GM: modern applications...

The gradual re-opening of the South African economy and its changes to the job market, as well as the movements in the UIF TERS funds, are leading to the slow return of take-home pay numbers. "Over the past months - from hard lockdown to the gradual relaxation of...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on September 29 that employment in South Africa declined by 2,2-million during the lockdown-hit second quarter of 2020. Lullu Krugel, chief economist at PwC Africa Strategy&, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC Strategy&...

Applications are open for the next AlphaCode Incubate programme which aims to identify, partner and grow innovative financial services entrepreneurs. Successful applicants will receive funding, guidance from performance coaches and a panel of advisory experts, access...