Software is our most promising business opportunity
As digital transformation continues across South Africa, the focus is on how software and IT-related services can play a role in transforming enterprises and entire industries. By Brendan Cuthberson, head of private sector sales: South Africa at Cisco The country...
SA has room for growth in innovation
In a 2019 Forbes article, Peter Bender-Samuel observed that software may have been eating the world, but services today are now consuming software like prey. By Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings While it's true that services have become key to business operations,...
The importance of getting MaaD on the road to AIOps
The term might only have been coined as recently as 2017, but AIOps is already hailed as the next big thing. AIOps uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to augment, accelerate, and automate certain IT operations. "When digital transformation outstrips IT...
Progressive web apps versus native apps
Far from being a luxury, latest Statista figures reveal that smartphones and tablets have become a common feature of everyday life, as over 90% of people around the world use their mobile devices to go online, while mobile users currently account for more than 58% of...
Integrate, integrate, integrate …
It is time to adopt a security-focused approach to DevOps, one that integrates the security alarm bells and whistles into the flair and speed of development without the traditional frictions and complexities. A survey undertaken by ESG found that 68% of respondents...
Delving into container security
Container security is a fairly new technology, especially when viewed in the context of the speed of light technology changes in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Container technology itself is a topic that many security practitioners continue to find confusing,...
Leveraging AIOPs at the storage layer improves IT focus on business
The current environment is exceptionally challenging for businesses from an IT perspective. By Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer at Infinidat Some of the issues organisations must contend with include lack of time, the need for talent with critical skills, and...
SAP launches SAP Build, partners with Coursera
SAP has launched new offering to drive the next wave of business transformation by harnessing business users' expertise. SAP Build is a low-code solution that puts SAP's world-class enterprise technology in the hands of business users, giving them direct, secure...
WeThinkCode_ conference plots a path towards sustainable digital skills
Sweden's ambassador to South Africa, Håkan Juholt was the keynote speaker at WeThinkCode_'s Future of Digital Skills Conference. The event was hosted a day after WeThinkCode_ won the award for Top Women Business in Skills Development at the 2022 Standard Bank Top...
SA loses billions to poor quality software
South African businesses are losing billions of rands due to poor quality software. And, as the economy tightens and skills remain scarce, this is likely to get worse, forcing them to pay to fix avoidable problems and resulting in stalled growth. According to the...
Cisco advances API-first strategy to empower developers
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a foundational technology for building and connecting applications. They help developers easily build digital experiences using proven services instead of building them from scratch. This allows businesses to better adapt...
Red Hat, IBM Research advance IT automation with AI
Red Hat and IBM Research have announced Project Wisdom, a community project to create an intelligent, natural language processing capability for Ansible and the IT automation industry. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, the project aims to boost the...