DevOps bottlenecks, burnout and the rising role of AI
While DevOps was designed to accelerate software delivery, it often slows teams down. Manual processes, tool sprawl, and compliance overhead are creating drag on innovation - and fueling rising levels of engineer burnout, according to DuploCloud’s inaugural AI +...
SA can embrace digital currency to drive tourism
As South Africa continues to accelerate its efforts to revive and grow its tourism sector a new frontier is emerging - crypto tourism. With digital currencies increasingly adopted across the globe, South Africa has a unique opportunity to position itself as a leading...
Blackwell ups the ante on training performance
In MLPerf Training 4.1 industry benchmarks, the Nvidia Blackwell platform has delivered impressive results on workloads across all tests - and up to 2,2x more performance per GPU on LLM benchmarks, including Llama 2 70B fine-tuning and GPT-3 175B pretraining. In...
AMD debuts Versal Premium Series Gen 2
AMD has announced the AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2, an adaptive SoC platform designed to deliver the highest levels of system acceleration for a wide range of workloads. Versal Premium Series Gen 2 will be the FPGA industry’s first devices featuring Compute Express...
Ultrafast memory boosts Intel data centre chips
While Intel’s primary product focus is on the processors, or brains, that make computers work, system memory (that’s DRAM) is a critical component for performance. This is especially true in servers, where the multiplication of processing cores has outpaced the rise...
Africa Tech Festival: It’s a wrap …
The Africa Tech Festival, taking place this week (11-14 November) in Cape Town, saw telecommunications vendors and operators get together with governments and key policy-makers to pilot the continent on it’s transition to a digital economy. Kathy Gibson reports ...
Broadband adoption ramps up in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from Africa Tech Festival – Broadband is leading the connectivity charge in Africa as countries across the continent get access to fast networks. This was the overarching message from the Africa Broadband Forum 2024, held on the sidelines of the...
Surge in demand for AI in contact centres
Contact centres are under increasing pressure to improve customer experiences despite having fewer resources and, while 100% are turning to AI and automation for help, many face challenges due to limited in-house expertise. This is one of the key findings of a new...
Non-access to clean cooking poses deadly risks for millions in Africa
African policy makers and international partners meeting at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference - COP29 - have highlighted the urgent crisis posed by lack of access to clean cooking, a challenge impacting 1.2-billion people across Africa and leading to millions...
IBM, SEforALL launch new AI for energy and urban development
At COP29, IBM and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) have announced new, publicly available artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to inform more sustainable urban development for cities and communities around the world - enabling decision-makers and policy...
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Mobile money set to take SA by storm
Mobile money has seen massive uptake in Africa over the last decade, however, South Africa has lagged due to the country's stringent banking legislation, which has been a significant barrier to entry. By Jaco Saunders, commercial director at MACmobile However, the...
Internal payments fraud on the rise and costing SA businesses
South African businesses, already under severe economic strain, are now counting the costs of rapidly increasing internal payments fraud. According to Ryan Mer, MD of eftsure Africa, the number of recent high-profile cases before the courts only partly reflects the...
How digital is making healthcare smarter
It may sound counterintuitive but one of the major challenges governments across the globe faced at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was actually keeping people away from hospitals. In part, because of an inability to scale up human labour and resources fast...
A collaborative model for security
Successfully co-sourcing security infrastructure involves overcoming key barriers to establish a strong relationship based on shared responsibility, writes Tris Morgan, director of global advisory at BT. Following the disruption of 2020, it's important that security...
Why do companies struggle with digital self service?
Digital self service should be a no-brainer for any organisation operating in today's business environment. It is, after all, what customers want. By Ryan Falkenberg, co-CEO of Clevva Research shows that more than two-thirds of customers prefer self-service over...
Why colocation is stepping stone to the cloud
Driven by the ongoing global pandemic as well as long-standing loadshedding concerns, increasing numbers of South African organisations have had to enable remote working. By Barry Kemp, head of managed IT at Vox While moving to the cloud is often presented as the...
Designing architecture for holistic integration
The past few years have seen shifts in infrastructure and development models across organisations that are moving away from legacy approaches towards more holistic and integrated development, ops, and investment. As McKinsey points out, the C-Suite, tired of feeling...
Celebrating 22 years with Esquire
Esquire is sharing its 22nd birthday cheer with its reseller partners, promoting a wide range of products. Many successful IT businesses started in a garage, but Esquire had its beginnings on the dining room table of their family home when brothers Mahomed Cassim and...
Product security is critical to cyber security
By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa - If you follow the news, you'll have noticed that there has been a significant uptick in the number of cybersecurity-related articles and stories lately. This is because cyber-attacks...
In the as-a-service economy, subscription without service just won’t fly
If we think about the past year in business, the subscription and as-a-service (aaS) economy has to be at the top of the trend lists. By Daniel Teixeira, systems engineering manager at Pure Storage However, there is a difference between products on subscription and a...
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Our client is seeking a skilled and forward-thinking Business Analyst to join their team and lead the integration of SAP and third-party applications. This role is essential in enabling seamless operations, analytics, and mobility across the company enterprise...
IT Learnership at Geeks4learning
Learnership Role in JHB/CPT - EE position Geeks4learning is an IT academy, that specialise in upskilling our unemployed youth, to work within the IT field.Techinical Skills:Proficient is Java DevelopmentData ScienceAIOther Skills:Good communication...
Project Manager (ACT TB – WITS RHI)
Background: The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) is a renowned African-led research institute that seeks solutions to Africa's health challengesIt is located within the University of the Witwatersrand and addresses some of the greatest public...
Systems Developer Analyst
Our client is seeking a skilled and versatile System Developer/Analyst to join their IT team. This role is ideal for a developer who enjoys solving business challenges through custom applications, system integrations, and enterprise reporting. If you have a passion...
Business Analyst (Finance /COPA)
Our client is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Business Analyst SAP (Finance, COPA) to join their team. This role is essential in bridging the gap between finance users and SAP support teams to enhance financial reporting, controls, and profitability analysis....
IT Learnership at Geeks4learning – Gauteng Gauteng
Learnership Role in JHB/CPT - EE position Geeks4learning is an IT academy, that specialise in upskilling our unemployed youth, to work within the IT field.Techinical Skills:Proficient is Java DevelopmentData ScienceAIOther Skills:Good communication...
Project Manager (ACT TB – WITS RHI) – Gauteng Hillbrow
Background: The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) is a renowned African-led research institute that seeks solutions to Africa's health challengesIt is located within the University of the Witwatersrand and addresses some of the greatest public...
Systems Developer Analyst – Remote Remote
Our client is seeking a skilled and versatile System Developer/Analyst to join their IT team. This role is ideal for a developer who enjoys solving business challenges through custom applications, system integrations, and enterprise reporting. If you have a passion...
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Analyse and interpret technical drawings, specifications, and product requirements.Collaborate with design and production teams to optimize manufacturing processes and improve product quality.Develop and implement process improvements to enhance production efficiency...
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