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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Intel shows strong AI inference performance

Sep 13, 2023

Intel has shown up well on competitive performance for AI inference as it attempt to make artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible at scale across the continuum of AI workloads, from client and edge to the network and cloud. MLCommons has published results of its...

Nvidia Grace Hopper superchip sweeps MLPerf inference benchmarks

Sep 13, 2023

In its debut on the MLPerf industry benchmarks, the Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper superchip ran all data centre inference tests, extending the performance of Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs. The overall results showed the exceptional performance and versatility of the Nvidia...

Has time in lockdown been wasted?

Jun 10, 2020

Since the lockdown began in South Africa on 27 March 2020, only 207 additional critical care beds and 350 ventilators have been added in the public health sector. By Chris Hattingh, project manager and a researcher at the Free Market Foundation According to a recent...

Global server revenue, shipments decline

Jun 10, 2020

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market declined 6% year over year to $18,6-billion during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20). Worldwide server shipments declined 0,2% year...

Companies that fail to protect information lose on brand loyalty

Jun 10, 2020

While most consumers are taking necessary security precautions to protect their online accounts, businesses may not be doing enough to protect their information – inadvertently driving sales to competitors that can. This is one of the findings from research by...

Enterprise external OEM storage declines 8,2%

Jun 10, 2020

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 8,2% year over year to $6,5-billion during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20). Total...

Who’s causing the anti-vaccination infodemic?

Jun 10, 2020

Social media analysis conducted by media intelligence firm Commetric sheds light on the impact Covid-19 has had on the spread of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories online. Some of the main findings include: * Most users consumed vaccination content via videos rather...

Cyber incident at Life Healthcare

Jun 9, 2020

The Life Healthcare Group confirms that its southern African operation has been the victim of a targeted criminal attack on its IT systems. "We acted immediately on becoming aware of the incident and took our systems offline, in order to actively contain the attack,"...

Startups could drive growth in SA

Jun 9, 2020

The economic and social upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic underlines the need for a collective, and robust national strategy to unlock entrepreneurship in South Africa. Before the pandemic, many aspects of the country's entrepreneurial ecosystem were already...

Saturn’s moon Titan drifting away faster than previously thought

Jun 9, 2020

Just as our own Moon floats away from Earth a tiny bit more each year, other moons are doing the same with their host planets. As a moon orbits, its gravity pulls on the planet, causing a temporary bulge in the planet as it passes. Over time, the energy created by the...

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