University of Edinburgh installs largest CS-3 cluster in Europe
Operated by EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University and part of the Edinburgh International Data Facility, a new cluster consists of four CS-3s using Cerebras’s latest 3rd generation of Wafer Scale Engine processors – the world’s largest AI chip ever built....
Unsettled regulatory, legal environment emerge as top risks
Concerns regarding the unsettled regulatory and legal environment moved into the top rank of emerging risks for the first quarter of 2025, according to a Gartner survey of enterprise risk leaders. The survey of 266 senior risk and assurance executives – taken in the...
Blackwell ups the ante on training performance
In MLPerf Training 4.1 industry benchmarks, the Nvidia Blackwell platform has delivered impressive results on workloads across all tests - and up to 2,2x more performance per GPU on LLM benchmarks, including Llama 2 70B fine-tuning and GPT-3 175B pretraining. In...
AMD debuts Versal Premium Series Gen 2
AMD has announced the AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2, an adaptive SoC platform designed to deliver the highest levels of system acceleration for a wide range of workloads. Versal Premium Series Gen 2 will be the FPGA industry’s first devices featuring Compute Express...
Ultrafast memory boosts Intel data centre chips
While Intel’s primary product focus is on the processors, or brains, that make computers work, system memory (that’s DRAM) is a critical component for performance. This is especially true in servers, where the multiplication of processing cores has outpaced the rise...
Africa Tech Festival: It’s a wrap …
The Africa Tech Festival, taking place this week (11-14 November) in Cape Town, saw telecommunications vendors and operators get together with governments and key policy-makers to pilot the continent on it’s transition to a digital economy. Kathy Gibson reports ...
Broadband adoption ramps up in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from Africa Tech Festival – Broadband is leading the connectivity charge in Africa as countries across the continent get access to fast networks. This was the overarching message from the Africa Broadband Forum 2024, held on the sidelines of the...
Surge in demand for AI in contact centres
Contact centres are under increasing pressure to improve customer experiences despite having fewer resources and, while 100% are turning to AI and automation for help, many face challenges due to limited in-house expertise. This is one of the key findings of a new...
Non-access to clean cooking poses deadly risks for millions in Africa
African policy makers and international partners meeting at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference - COP29 - have highlighted the urgent crisis posed by lack of access to clean cooking, a challenge impacting 1.2-billion people across Africa and leading to millions...
IBM, SEforALL launch new AI for energy and urban development
At COP29, IBM and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) have announced new, publicly available artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to inform more sustainable urban development for cities and communities around the world - enabling decision-makers and policy...
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The extra hand field technicians need
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Red Hat debuts Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain
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Acer expands support for SpatialLabs developers
Acer has announced an expansion of developer tools for its industry-leading SpatialLabs technology, providing more avenues to develop glasses-free, stereoscopic 3D experiences on Acer SpatialLabs Pro devices. With its new Unity plug-in support, developers from various...
DP World, Standard bank partner in Africa
Standard Bank has partnered with DP World to offer trade finance solutions jointly with DP World Trade Finance. This partnership will help in closing the gap in unmet demand for working capital on the continent. African companies looking for trade finance will now be...
ESET announces 2023 Partner Awards winners
ESET acknowledged outstanding achievements and innovations of its partners during its annual Partner Awards event in Johannesburg. The awards aim to recognise and reward excellent performance, resilience, and meaningful contribution towards ESET's vision of protecting...
Ukheshe Labs to focus on digital payments
Banking as a Service (BaaS) and embedded finance enabler Ukheshe has launched a new innovation hub, Ukheshe Labs, to focus on research and development in the digital payments market. Jason Penton, Ukheshe co-founder and head of Ukheshe Labs, says such an endeavour...
Dell makes it easier to deploy, secure the edge
Dell Technologies has introduced Dell NativeEdge, an edge operations software platform, designed to help businesses simplify and optimize secure edge deployments. Customers can streamline edge operations across thousands of devices and locations from the edge to core...
Sandton Central adapts to hybrid work
Following the significant shift towards remote and hybrid work models in recent years, Sandton Central is experiencing a resurgence as it adapts to the evolving needs and requirements of office tenants. Elaine Jack, district improvement manager of Sandton Central...
Red Hat unveils developer hub
Red Hat has launched the Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade, unified and open portal designed to streamline the development process through a supported and opinionated framework. Crafted from the open source project Backstage, the Red Hat Developer Hub...
Global container capacity is increasing
Despite some recent volatility, the container industry is getting much closer to a new equilibrium, with high-frequency metrics showing a significant degree of stabilisation. Growth is being driven by an increase in container vessels, as carriers add significant...
Junior Network Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
Are you a network-savvy professional ready to level up your career in a collaborative and fast-paced IT environment? We're looking for a motivated Junior Network Engineer to support our growing infrastructure and ensure seamless connectivity across our platforms. This...
Software Programmer – Western Cape Somerset West
Software Engineer Monthly CTC: R60K - R100K- depending on level and experience As a Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for working on our integration platform across the .NET 8 backend and /or web app front-end ( Typescript, React). You have a solid track record...
Data Engineer
The role involves the design, development, and maintenance of the architecture that facilitates the efficient collection, storage, and processing of large datasets. This position collaborates closely with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure...
Project Manager
. Skills/Abilities: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail. Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines. Strong supervisory and leadership skills. Strong analytical and...
Finance Systems Data Analyst (FP&A) at The Foschini Group
Package & RemunerationJOB DESCRIPTION Key Responsibilities: Drive the enablement of strategic and performance insights including the implementation of efficient financial planning solutions to deliver sound and reliable decision-making Deliver financial models,...
System Analyst
The role involves collaborating with the Project Manager and Director, Software Solution to define system requirements, analysis, and design for pre-sales, implementation, and deployment activities. Responsibilities include implementing projects and products, which...
Data Engineer – Gauteng Sandton
The role involves the design, development, and maintenance of the architecture that facilitates the efficient collection, storage, and processing of large datasets. This position collaborates closely with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure...
Project Manager – Western Cape Ottery
. Skills/Abilities: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail. Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines. Strong supervisory and leadership skills. Strong analytical and...
Finance Systems Data Analyst (FP&A) at The Foschini Group – Western Cape Parow East
Package & RemunerationJOB DESCRIPTION Key Responsibilities: Drive the enablement of strategic and performance insights including the implementation of efficient financial planning solutions to deliver sound and reliable decision-making Deliver financial models,...
System Analyst – Gauteng Pretoria Region
The role involves collaborating with the Project Manager and Director, Software Solution to define system requirements, analysis, and design for pre-sales, implementation, and deployment activities. Responsibilities include implementing projects and products, which...
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