IBM breaks down barriers in lakehouse environments
At its annual TechXchange conference in Orlando, IBM has launched watsonx.data developer edition - a free desktop application that makes it easier for developers and data engineers to explore, prototype, and learn in a complete data lakehouse environment. Data...
IBM, Anthropic partner to advance enterprise software development
IBM and Anthropic have partnered to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Anthropic’s Claude - one of the world’s most powerful family of large language models (LLMs) - into IBM’s software portfolio. The collaboration will see Claude integrated...
MTN enhances festive season network capacity
As South Africans prepare to celebrate the festive season, MTN has been capacitating its network in high density areas and tourist hotspots to carry increased voice and data traffic over the festive season. Operations are underway to cater for additional coverage and...
Resellers vote Syntech Distribution best for Customer Care
Syntech Distribution has scooped the Customer Care Distributor of the Year in the 12th annual Channelwise Awards. For the Customer Care Distributor of the Year award, the 2 828 resellers polled in the survey were asked to rate their chosen distributors on a number of...
Pinnacle scoops Channelwise Distributor of the Year 2024 award
Pinnacle has reclaimed the coveted Channelwise Distributor of the Year title, pipping Axiz, Mustek, Tarsus Distribution and Rectron at the post. The prestigious awards are the culmination of the 12th annual Channelwise Distributor of the Year survey. This year, 2 828...
All the top vendors for 2024
The votes are in, and South African resellers have named their favourite vendors for 2024. The 12th annual Channelwise Awards survey attracted a record 2 828 voters, who named their favourite vendors in 10 categories, as follows: Infrastructure hardware Servers...
Businesses are vulnerable to AI-driven cyberattacks
A recent Kaspersky study reveals that businesses are increasingly worried about the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyberattacks. According to the findings, 56% of surveyed companies in South Africa reported a rise in cyber incidents over the past year,...
Paratus opens Botswana to Zambia fibre route
Paratus Botswana has commenced work on lighting a new fibre route, the SADC Highway, that will connect Gaborone in Botswana, through Zimbabwe, to Livingstone in Zambia. The first section in Botswana, which is from Gaborone to Plumtree, spans approximately 500km and is...
Africa to benefit from Smart LEO networks
Q-KON is extending its collaboration with Eutelsat OneWeb to develop end-user portfolio service sets engineered to meet the needs of niche market sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. Recognising the challenges inherent in the African connectivity landscape, Q-KON is working...
Siemens Healthineers adopts medical imaging AI
About 3,6-billion medical imaging tests are performed annually worldwide to diagnose, monitor and treat various conditions. Speeding up the processing and evaluation of all these X-rays, CT scans, MRIs and ultrasounds is essential to helping doctors manage their...
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What is still driving the gender wage gap?
The underlying causes and current barriers of the gender pay gap are often misunderstood. This is according to Dr Mark Bussin, master reward specialist and executive committee member of the South African Reward Association (SARA), who points out that the gender pay...
Platform technology boosts democratisation of payments
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Women’s health in Africa a pressing human rights issue
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Digital transformation an opportunity for inclusive growth in Africa
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No ‘Doge-ing’ the tax bill on cryptocurrency transactions
SARS is tightening tax collection on cryptocurrency transactions, which makes it important to distinguish between events that will trigger income tax rates or CGT rates, write Joon Chong and Lumen Moolman from Webber Wentzel. Have you (i) sold your cryptocurrencies...
With POPIA and Covid, data strategies must be adaptable
The way companies view and approach disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategies has changed drastically in the past year, largely due to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), which will now come into effect in February 2022. By Chris...
The role of the credit bureaus in SA and how they operate
The main function of credit bureaus, as intended in the National Credit Act (NCA), is to protect consumers from irresponsible lending and over-indebtedness. For this reason, a credit bureau gathers, stores, and reports credit-related financial information of consumers...
The five secrets of business resilience
True organisational resilience is defined as much by security posture as by the organisation's ability to adapt and pivot to the unexpected and unplanned, writes Padma Naidoo, senior security consulting manager at Dimension Data. Business resilience defines an...
Unscrambling the hybrid working puzzle
Uncertainty has been a defining characteristic of the past +/- 18-months. Now, as the move to hybrid working gathers pace, what the future of work looks like in South Africa is equally uncertain. It's a puzzle every business needs to solve. Dr Nicola Millard,...
Huawei SA launches digital skills training for female entrepreneurs
Huawei South Africa is calling on women entrepreneurs to apply for its digital skills training programme, Women4Tech. The free online course is open to savvy, tech-forward women entrepreneurs, and aims to advance their skills and help them use new technologies to...
SAP FI/CO Consultant at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Boksburg West
Join the Tech Revolution as a SAP FI/CO Consultant!Are you ready to turbocharge your IT career with a global automotive leader? Buckle up and join the Teams Information Technology division as a SAP FI/CO Consultant!We're on the hunt for a tech-savvy, SAP-supercharged...
Intermediate Vue.js Front-End Developer – (JHB) – Gauteng Johannesburg
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ERP Consultant (Financial)
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ENVIRONMENT:The coding talents of a [URL Removed] Developer is wanted by a dynamic Financial Services company where your core role will entail crafting highly responsive user interfaces and enhancing its application performance. Working on cutting-edge projects, you...
Kubernetes and Cloud Engineer
Location: Kapsch TrafficCom South Africa | CenturionPosition: Senior Kubernetes and Cloud EngineerPosition OverviewAs a Senior Kubernetes and Cloud Engineer at Kapsch, you will play a critical role in designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, secure, and...
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Kubernetes and Cloud Engineer – Gauteng Centurion
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Service Desk Analyst (L2)Support Escalations and Troubleshooting for a Dynamic Global IT EnvironmentIT Support | Johannesburg, South Africa | Full-Time | Mon-Fri, 08:30-18:00 BST About Our ClientOur client is a fast-growing Managed Services Provider delivering expert...
Software Engineer at NRF National Research Foundation
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