Local economic growth is facing a myriad of headwinds this year including a weaker global environment weighing on export potential, a tightening of domestic monetary policy, a further rise in electricity load-shedding, a series of big fuel prices increases, and the...

With highly distributed architectures and a broader threat landscape resulting from an ongoing digitisation of previously physical experiences, organisations are turning to a variety of solutions to help manage complexity and address widening IT skills gaps. However,...

The conflict between National Treasury and Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) with regard to the national spectrum auction in the 2.6 GHz band must be resolved ... and quickly. This is the word from the Free Market Foundation (FMF), which has...

Regulators face substantial challenges when evaluating the risks associated with cryptocurrencies. While cryptocurrencies hold significant promise for economic growth in Africa, there is a strong case for cryptocurrency regulation. The evolution of cryptocurrencies...

As South African consumers and retailers prepare for the shopping spree associated with the international trend of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the real achievement for the country will be the expected improvement in the adoption of e-commerce. Dr Christoph...

With digital transformation initiatives permeating everything business does, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period this year is expected to illustrate just how far online retailers have come in embracing availability. And with this in mind, Veeam Software has...

Africa's commercial ports should invest in revamping their enterprise applications and digitalising their operations as part of the multi-billionaire dollar capacity expansion projects underway across much of the continent. Such investments in technology hold the key...

We've all heard the stories about Black Friday in the US - all the latest goods at crazy low prices - but are South Africans experiencing the biggest day on the shopping calendar in the same way? Kevin Tucker, founder and CEO of PriceCheck, one of Africa's most...

Technology research and consulting firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced that nominations for the upcoming IDC CIO Excellence Awards 2018 are now open. With the winners set to be crowned during the 11th annual edition of IDC's Middle East CIO Summit...

Today's enterprises need an extremely high level of performance and dependability to run their most critical applications, such as databases and ERP systems. These are applications that simply cannot go down -- the potential for catastrophic consequences is too high....