Shadow AI is the new shadow IT – and financial institutes are sleepwalking into it
Someone at your institution is running a critical risk calculation from a laptop under a desk. You just don't know which one. That's not a hypothetical. At a major bank, compliance teams discovered approximately 36,000 systems operating across the business, many...
SA’s AI push is running ahead of its digital foundations
The returns from digital transformation will remain elusive until business leaders confront an uncomfortable truth: the problem isn't the AI, but everything underneath it. By Kgomotso Lebele, country MD at Accenture, South Africa Consider this: you lead a large retail...
Vertiv debuts converged physical infrastructure digital twin for NVIDIA Omniverse DSX
Vertiv has announced progress on a production-grade digital twin capability for Vertiv SmartRun integrated in the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, advancing its roadmap to make AI factory infrastructure more configurable, repeatable, and simulation-ready. As AI...
SA’s AI future is being written on the factory floor, not in Pretoria
The irony was palpable when South Africa’s Draft National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy was abruptly withdrawn in April. A document designed to establish the country as an ethical leader in AI governance was found to be riddled with fictitious, AI-hallucinated...
Data in action: what SA can learn from integrated ecosystems
Across South Africa, many citizens are already familiar with seamless, data-driven experiences, often through services in the private sector. In these environments, data is used to support more connected and responsive interactions, shaping how services are delivered...
The cost of doing nothing just went up
Rising IT hardware costs and supply constraints now carry real operational and financial risks, writes Marcelle Steyn: strategic sales lead at InnoVent. There’s a disconnect in many South African businesses right now. IT teams are under pressure to deliver on refresh...
Vertiv expands liquid cooling portfolio
Vertiv has expanded its end-to-end thermal chain with the launch of the Vertiv CoolChip CDU 2300 and Vertiv CoolChip Fluid Network Row Manifolds in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). These liquid cooling technologies support the growing demands of AI and...
ManageEngine rolls out autonomous AI
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho and provider of enterprise IT management solutions, has launched Zia Agents, the company's proprietary AI-powered autonomous agent, across its digital enterprise management suite. Built within a secure and privacy-compliant framework,...
New benchmark aims to measure product readiness in SA businesses
South African businesses have become highly effective at digitising quickly. What remains far less clear is whether the systems underneath that growth are actually built to sustain it. That is the premise behind a new initiative launched this month by Specno, which...
No room for error: Hotel payments optimised
Hotels now have access to a seamless, end-to-end payment experience that follows the guest from booking through to checkout. Already live across the Red Carnation Hotel Collection’s South African portfolio - including the Oyster Box, Bushman's Kloof Reserve &...
I think I gave my AI an anxiety disorder
By Barry Buck - I said something to my project manager last week that started as a joke and has been quietly haunting me since. Anthropic might owe me money – because between the last-minute requirements and the volume I push through it, I am fairly sure I am going to...
Dell delivers production-ready agentic AI
Dell Technologies has introduced Dell Deskside Agentic AI, a new addition to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA that gives workgroups the ability to deploy and scale agentic AI workflows locally without the cost, latency and data sovereignty constraints of cloud-only...