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...

Dedicated cloud IaaS market set for 100-times growth

Digital transformation (DX) is one of the trends shaping the enterprise world and driving the investments organisations are making to modernise their IT infrastructures and processes. Migration to service-based IT is one of the significant elements of DX initiatives...

Microsoft’s $10bn US Defense cloud contract pulled

The US Defense Department has cancelled a $10-billion cloud computing project with Microsoft. The new version of the JEDI contract will include Amazon and potentially other cloud players as well. When the contract was awarded in 2019, Amazon was widely tipped to win...

Telcos urged to improve management

Competition, market consolidation, and customer demands are forcing telcos into drastic action, and improving revenue management systems ranks high on their list of IT priorities, according to analyst firm Ovum. Telcos are feeling the pressure to offer more robust...

Orange buys up more African telcos

Orange and Bharti Airtel International have signed an agreement leading to Orange’s acquisition of Airtel’s operations in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. Orange will acquire 100% of the two companies’ share capital. The consolidated revenue of the two companies is...

Record 50 000 financial terminals in Africa

Ingenico has reached a strategic 50 000 terminals landmark to serve the unbanked population and becomes the a financial inclusion-enabler in Africa. "This milestone is taking us to the forefront of the Financial Inclusion market in Africa where three quarter of the...

VMware, Intel collaborate on mobile security

VMware announced an expansion of its collaboration with Intel Security to include joint solutions for customers using the AirWatch by VMware Enterprise Mobility Management platform. The two companies have partnered on two initiatives to enable technology integrations...

PC market down as expected, should turn in 2016

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 71,9-million units in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15), a year-on-year decline of -10,6%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Although total shipments were in line with already...

Jasco turns the corner

Jasco Electronics has issued a trading update, indicating positive impacts from its restructuring. The company states that, in spite of difficult economic conditions in South Africa and severe volatility in the rate of exchange during the period, its first half...

We want cars – but not to own

Consumers expect to use cars differently - showing particular interest in self-enabling vehicles -- though they don't necessarily want to own one in the traditional sense. This is according to the results of IBM's automotive consumer study; the findings of which...

Massive decline for global PC shipments

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 75,7-million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 8.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the year, 2015 PC shipments totalled 288,7-million units, an 8% decline from 2014....

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