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...

IXPs critical to improving Africa’s Internet ecosystem

A new report published by the Internet Society outlines the state of Internet interconnection in Africa and the critical role Internet Exchange Points (IXP) play in improving access and lowering costs. The report, entitled "Moving towards an interconnected Africa: the...

The rise of 5G and its impact on the next normal

Kathy Gibson reports - A massive 1-million 5G subscriptions are going to be added every day this year, taking the total to 580-million users by the end of 2021. Todd Ashton, vice-president and head of Ericsson South and East Africa, points out that 5G growth is...

Cloud traffic set to quadruple by 2019

Cloud traffic in the Middle East and Africa (including South Africa) is forecase to more than quadruple by the end of 2019 - and, 2019, 83% of all MEA data centre traffic will come from the cloud. These are among the findings from the fifth annual Cisco Global Cloud...

Pinnacle secures majority stake in Datacentrix

South Africa's largest IT distributor, Pinnacle, has confirmed that it is now the majority shareholder in one of the country's premier systems integrators Datacentrix. In November last year, Pinnacle notified Datacentrix shareholders of a mandatory offer to acquire...

CIOs need to be more innovative

The job of CIO is becoming increasingly difficult as we move further into the 3rd Platform era - but pressure to keep costs down, maintain a consistent infrastructure, and to innovate has left many CIOs flat-footed, playing a catch-up game trying to integrate new...

Silvertree to invest $10m in African startups

Cape Town-based consumer-focused Internet platform, Silvertree Internet Holdings (SIH), has recorded 330% growth per annum for 2015 to more than $10-million in revenue - its strongest year since operations began in 2013. Following this news, the company's investment...

Internet of Everything will be big, says Prof

While Gartner in its Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 says the year will be all about the Internet of Things and smart devices talking to each other, Professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) says that he...

EOH expands in Africa with acquisitions

In line with its intention to expand into new territories, EOH Holdings has concluded the acquisition of 50% or more of a number of businesses in the EOH ICT Division. The business are Consol Systems and BC Skills in Morocco; Acron and Cozumevi in Turkey; Acron in...

NordVPN advises SA users on unblocking Netflix

The offerings from Netflix are not the same across the world, and shows for which the service doesn’t have global rights won’t be served outside of the US. This means that South African users could experience frustrating limitations to what can be watched compared to...

Hungry galaxy caught on camera

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped pictures of the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located more 65-million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The orientation of the galaxy (pictured here) clearly reveals it striking spiral structure: a flat and...

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SAP Consultant (SCM)

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