A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

WLAN market hits 11th quarter of YoY growth

Enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) revenues grew 48% YoY in the first quarter of 2023 fueled by high shipment volumes and increasing prices, says Dell'Oro Group, adding that some vendors reported backlogs coming down faster than anticipated. "The enterprise-class WLAN...

Don’t forget to backup … and don’t forget data recovery

As businesses around the world are reminded about the importance of data backup during Backup Awareness Month, storage specialists Arcserve have stressed that recovery can often be the missing part of the successful business continuity equation. Global research...

CEOs turn attention to climate change

Climate change has emerged as the most frequently mentioned theme among the world's leading CEOs on Twitter, with 200% growth in conversations from the second quarter (Q2) to third quarter (Q3) of 2019. An analysis of GlobalData's CEO Influencer platform, which...

Vodacom sends R3,5m for drought relief

Vodacom has committed R3,5-million to the Eastern Cape government's drought relief funds, aimed at assisting drought-stricken municipalities in Eastern Cape as the province is grappling with the worst drought in 15 years. The commitment follows a productive engagement...

SITA signs up Microsoft for government cloud

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Microsoft South Africa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which paves the way for government adoption of public cloud services. The MOU, announced at Govtech in Durban, allows for government departments,...

AI set to guide autonomous ship across the Atlantic

IBM has joined a global consortium of partners, led by marine research organisation ProMare, that is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that will cross the Atlantic on the fourth centenary of the original Mayflower voyage in September 2020. The Mayflower...

Drones and the cybersecurity threat

With estimates that between 30 000 and 50 000 drones are currently being operated in South Africa, security experts advise that unmanned aerial vehicles have punched a gaping hole in existing physical and IT security strategies. Interpol warns that the potential use...

Intel debuts Tremont microarchitecture

Intel has revealed the first architectural details related to Tremont, the newest and most advanced low-power x86 CPU architecture offering a significant performance boost over prior generations. "Tremont is Intel's most advanced low-power x86 architecture to date,"...

Microsoft wins $10bn Pentagon deal

The Pentagon has awarded a $10-billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft. All the major cloud providers bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) in a process that was racked with controversy. The JEDI system will store and process classified data...

Why this could be a very scary Halloween

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should be spooked this Halloween. By Aaron Thornton, MD of Dial a Nerd As you carve out your pumpkins and contemplate the sweet rewards of trick or treating this year, we invite you to prepare a pumpkin in honour of your small...

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