Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

Network to the fore as agentic AI adoption takes off

In the era of agentic AI, the network is becoming the critical foundation for trust, security and the seamless operating models through which people and AI can build the future. However, as organisations move quickly to gain an advantage from AI, a significant gap has...

Soft global demand drives smartphone shipments down

Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 8,9% year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This marks the third consecutive quarter of decline...

Old records? Made to sell

The vinyl resurgence is showing no signs of slowing and even Technics is making turntables again, recently announcing the debut of the high-end SP-10r, the most premium turntable ever produced in the brand's history. Global LP record sales soared to a 25-year high in...

Digital drives operations challenges

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town -- IT professionals are not always in charge of their own destiny -- but they have to make it work. "We aren't always in a position to architect the solution that way we want it," says Gartner analyst Milin Govekar. The new...

Infor has high hopes for Africa

Mark Davison at Infor Next 2017, Johannesburg -- Specialist application software firm Infor has high ambitions for its India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) operations, looking to increase its business in the region five-fold over the next three years. And Africa will...

Don’t forget the digital plumbing

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town -- To enable the digital business, digital plumbing has to be in place, and new networks are going to be needed to run the new systems. Neil Rickard, networking analyst at Gartner, explains that the new scenario is seeing a...

Bringing the WAN up to cloud speed …

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town -- Wide area networks (WANs) today are less than ideal. They were typically bolted together in a fragile mish-mash of technologies - but they are expected to cope with traffic that is doubling in volume every three years....

Telkom doubles data on Smart Broadband LTE

Telkom will double the data allocation on all their Smart Broadband LTE prepaid and post-paid deals while leaving prices unchanged. The promotional offer is immediately available to both new and existing LTE prepaid and LTE contract customers. "Telkom has worked hard...

Africa: world’s dump for eWaste

Africa is fast becoming the dumping ground for eWaste with a growing amount of computer equipment from western nations being found on toxic eWaste dumps throughout the continent, often being pulled apart by children as young as five. A computer monitor from a...

Consumer spending on the up

Despite challenging economic conditions, retail sales growth for July 2017 was the highest recorded for that month since 2015, according to the Mastercard SpendingPulse report, a macroeconomic report tracking retail sales. Nominal (not adjusting for price...

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