Talk is cheap – and now it may even buy the whisky
All of us want a better life, not just for ourselves but for our families and the societies we live in. The key to realising this dream is productivity. by Simon Carpenter, chief technology advisor at SAP Africa Productivity is a key driver of global efforts toward...
Technology has made the world a smarter place
Technology is embedded into every facet of modern life and with the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and the fourth industrial revolution, people sometimes worry about the implications of every device being connected, but we are...
Ethical considerations for AI
There is little doubt that the pace of innovation is accelerating at unprecedented levels. Technology enabled breakthroughs are happening with increased frequency, enhancing the human life span, improving access to basic needs and leaving the general public with...
Five CIO strategies to combat growing IT complexity
The future has never looked more complex. IT leaders are asked not only to deliver IT services, but also to improve business outcomes. By Brendan McAravey, country GM at Citrix South Africa According to the 2018 IPSOS research study commissioned by Citrix, currently...
Critical factors fuelling the data-driven enterprise
Successful digital businesses depend on data to provide the insights necessary to deliver new innovations, products, and services. But those insights are only as good as the underlying data. As the number of business decision-makers who depend on real-time data...
Machine learning optimises core tray imagery
Members of Micromine's Perth office recently participated in The Newcrest Crowd, a crowdsourcing and partnership platform that challenges innovators around the world to solve specific mining problems through online competitions. The "Get 2 the Core" competition...
Dell EMC accelerates AI adoption
Dell EMC has announced the availability of new Ready Solutions for AI, with specialised designs for machine learning with Hadoop and Deep Learning with NVidia. "There's no doubt that AI is the future, and our customers are preparing for it now," says Tom Burns, senior...
NetApp, NVIDIA add new AI architecture
NetApp has introduced NetApp ONTAP AI architecture, powered by NVIDIA DGX supercomputers and NetApp AFF A800 cloud-connected all-flash storage to simplify, accelerate, and scale the data pipeline across edge, core and cloud for deep learning deployments and to help...
AI set to increase jobs, elevate humans
Artificial Intelligence may cause some jobs to be lost, but ultimately it will create more jobs and elevate humans, says futurist and technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie. Masie, former Google SSA head and the innovator behind ThumbzUp and the Payment Pebble, was...
Is your business really what you think it is?
By leveraging big data, you may uncover highly profitable insights about what you really do, writes Brian Timperley, MD and co-founder of Turrito Networks and MD of Dial a Nerd. Over the past several years, it would have been near impossible for business owners and...
A temperature heat map for big data
The business world is undergoing a total transformation as new technologies enable the rapid processing and analysis of huge volumes of data in real-time, equipping business leaders with unprecedented insight into granular detail of every aspect of their business. By...
Why ethics must be at the heart of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are more than trendy or futuristic topics - they are real computing advances that are playing out in homes and businesses today. By Zoaib Hoosen, MD of Microsoft SA In simple terms, AI is a machine's ability to...