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 to enhance creativity, automate routine tasks

How will large language models (LLMs), deep-learning algorithms that can recognise, summarise, translate, predict and generate content using very large datasets, affect current and future jobs? That is the focus of the new World Economic Forum white paper Jobs of...

One-third of companies already use AI security tools

Thirty-four percent of organizations are either already using or implementing artificial intelligence (AI) application security tools to mitigate the accompanying risks of generative AI (GenAI), according to a new survey from Gartner. Over half (56%) of respondents...

Fugaku tops supercomputer list

Supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu, has been ranked number one in the 58th TOP500 list of the world's supercomputers with LINPACK performance of 415.53 PFLOPS (petaflops) and a computing efficiency ratio of 80,87%. Fugaku also took first...

Increase in digital activity pushes cybercrime up

The spread of the novel coronavirus across the world has created new opportunities for online fraudsters who are exploiting the vulnerability of users confined to their homes, taking advantage of their reliance on the Internet to access information and services....

Effectively managing the enterprise data deluge

Over recent years, emerging technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) have generated significant excitement across many industries. By Davide Villa, EMEAI business development director at Western Digital This is largely...

Intel debuts AI, analytics platform

Intel has introduced its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data centre, network...

More pain to come for IT vendors and resellers

There has been widespread evidence of layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs at IT vendors, and there is more economic pain on the horizon. This is the word from GlobalData, which reports that, as of the end of May, the number of active jobs in the technology and...

Mobile drives Telkom revenue growth

Telkom has reported a 3% increase in revenue, to R43-billion, for the year to 31 March 2020. This has been driven mainly by a 54,4% increase in mobile service revenue in a year where South Africa slipped into a technical recession and consumer and business confidence...

Online shopping fraud on the rise

The restrictions in physical shopping activity since the start of the lockdown and consumers' awareness about personal safety have increased the driver for online shopping in recent months. In line with the upsurge, fraudsters have also increased their attempts to...

Server market is recovering from Covid-19

The market for servers in the European IT distribution channel is on the up, according to the latest data published by Context. Revenues from the server market, which includes server systems and upgrades, have returned to pre-Covid-crisis level in the latest weeks....

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