Government commits to SDG alignment
Kathy Gibson reports – Government is taking the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seriously, aligning the National Development Plan (NDP) and the Medium-Term Development Plan to the SDGs. The soon-to-be-released Medium-Term Development Plan will outline...
SA lags on SDGs, but private sector makes progress
Kathy Gibson reports - The private sector is making progress on attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), but there are still some significant challenges to overcome. Overall, South Africa has achieved just 17% of its goals, so there is still a tremendously...
Business needs, GenAI will drive public cloud spend to $679bn in 2024
Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20,4% to total $678,8-billion in 2024, up from $563,6-billion in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. "Cloud has become essentially indispensable," says Sid Nag, vice-president...
Cybersecurity trends to watch in 2024
South Africa's cybersecurity landscape is becoming increasingly dangerous. In fact, a recent report by Interpol reveals that the country is the cybercrime hub of the continent. As cyber-threats continue to rise, it's crucial for local businesses to keep an eye on...
Covid impacted digital transformation in healthcare
Globally, 71% of healthcare industry professionals expressed that the Covid-19 pandemic had the greatest impact on digital transformation in the healthcare sector during the last few years, among other macro events, according to a survey by GlobalData. GlobalData's...
New challenges as HR leaders strive to meet business outcomes
Leader and manager development, and organizational culture are the top priorities for HR leaders for 2024, according to a survey by Gartner. The Gartner survey of 520 HR leaders in July 2023 found the top five organisational priorities for HR leaders next year...
Digital payments to become a $10trn industry
Over the past five years, more than 1,6-billion people worldwide have embraced digital payments, pushing the total user count in this market to a whopping 4,44-billion, or more than half the world`s population. This massive user base has helped the total transaction...
Teraco commences CT2 expansion
interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider Teraco has announced a 30 megawatt (MW) expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre facility in Brackenfell, Cape Town. The expansion is scheduled for completion in early 2025 and will incorporate the latest...
Paratus SA inaugurates vendor neutral teleport
Representing the Group's largest investment in South Africa to date and built to serve Sub-Saharan Africa, the newly constructed Paratus South Africa Teleport - The Goedehoop Teleport in Doornkloof, Pretoria - has entered the final stages of completion. As the...
NAPAfrica achieves 4Tbps milestone
TikTok has joined Internet eXchange Point (IXP) NAPAfrica's growing community. At the same time, NAPAfrica announced a significant milestone in its growth journey by surpassing the 4Tbps (Terabits per second) traffic milestone. NAPAfrica reached the 3Tbps traffic...
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Homegrown offshore shines
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Fujitsu develops new tech for quantum-inspired Digital Annealer
Fujitsu Laboratories, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, has successfully developed a new parallel search technology to help achieve megabit-class performance for large-scale problems, representing an important technical milestone for its Digital...
PaaS to breed new hyperscale competitors
As the users of software continue to dominate development, technology is taking more of a back seat. If we have learnt anything this year, says Andrew Cruise, MD of cloud infrastructure operator Routed, it's that usability and experience is what matters the most,...
Make your money work for you
It's hard to go a day without hearing an advertisement encouraging you to save, or pointing out that consumers need to make their money work for them. What these advertisements all too often neglect to spell out, is just how someone can save when they are living from...
Driving innovation in tech through PC gaming
The personal computer (PC) gaming industry is one of the most innovative technology industries. Its impact on culture, social networking and most importantly entertainment cannot be understated as it provides an immersive experience to more than 2 billion gamers...
Call for GreenPitch Challenge entries
GreenCape, in partnership with the City of Cape Town's Invest Cape Town Business Hub, invites innovators and entrepreneurs with economically viable green economy innovation business ideas to enter the Invest Cape Town Business Hub GreenPitch Challenge 2021. Entries...
Digital transformation is about the experience
While many businesses were on the road to Digital Transformation (DX), there is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated these strategies and projects. By Andrew Hoseck, chief operations officer at In2IT Technologies 'Nice to have' technology became 'must have'...
How to compete in the trust and attention economy
Leveraging your data is not a tech problem, it's about your internal coordination, team and resources, writes JD Engelbrecht, MD of Everlytic. As businesses and consumers, we are accumulating data faster than ever before. Today, we have progressed far beyond the human...
Ozone to distribute Keeper cybersecurity platform in SA
Ozone Information Technology Distribution has been awarded the license to distribute Keeper in South Africa. Keeper is designed to protect individuals and organisations from password-related data breaches and cyberthreats. Ozone has gained the license thanks to a...
Stanlib enables remote working with Nutanix
South African financial services company Stanlib is working with Nutanix to secure additional nodes that enable the organisation to provide virtual desktops to employees that have been required to work from home during the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the...
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