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...

Research contests a new attack method

Sophos has uncovered how research contests run by cybercrime forums are helping to inspire new methods of attack and detection evasion. The contests mirror legitimate security conference 'Call For Papers' and provide the winners considerable financial rewards and...

Why Saffers don’t post pics with partners

According to the Digital Superstitions survey by Kaspersky, 43% of the respondents from South Africa do not post photos with their partners or spouses on social networks. Posting personal photos on social media can have certain negative consequences. Due to data...

Smartphone sales relatively strong, despite lockdowns

Smartphone shipments across EMEA dropped by 8% year-on-year in the first quarter as countries across the region began to respond to the spread of coronavirus and lock down local economies. In total, companies shipped 76,9-million smartphones in 1Q20. "Considering the...

Cloud the bright spot in IT outlook

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,4-trillion in 2020, a decline of 8% from 2019, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The coronavirus pandemic and effects of the global economic recession are causing CIOs to prioritise spending on technology and...

Paying ransomware doubles the cost of recovery

Paying cybercriminals to restore data encrypted during a ransomware attack is not an easy and inexpensive path to recovery. In fact, the total cost of recovery almost doubles when organizations pay a ransom, according to global survey from Sophos, "The State of...

LTE, 5G spending set to soar

Driven by increasing demand from branch, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) customers, International Data Corporation (IDC) expects LTE routers to experience double-digit growth in 2020. 5G wireless routers will add to this year's forecast, supported by initial...

Storage to continue strong growth trajectory

Despite the dramatic decline in worldwide IT spending brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, International Data Corporation (IDC) expects the Global StorageSphere - the worldwide installed base of storage capacity - will continue to expand. In a new update to its Global...

Altron boosts EBITDA and revenue

Altron has announced an increase in EBITDA of 14% to R1,8-billion in the year to end February, while revenue increased 6% to R16,7-billion during the same period. Headline earnings per share from continuing operations were up 2% to 182 cents while basic earnings per...

Datatec anticipates increased earnings

Datatec has published a trading statement for the financial year ended 29 February 2020, alerting shareholders it expects all earnings per share metrics for the period to be more than 20% higher than the reported earnings for FY19. underlying earnings per share is...

Technical assistance to help world tourism recover

The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has released a Tourism Recovery Technical Assistance Package to offer guidance to Member States in response to Covid-19. The package is structured around three main pillars: economic recovery, marketing and promotion and...

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