Your APIs were never built for this reader
Enterprises love to call themselves API-first. Almost none of them are ready for what's about to start calling those APIs. Eighty-two percent of organisations now describe themselves as API-first, according to Postman's 2025 State of the API Report. It's a comfortable...
Stop buying AI. Start redesigning work
Operating model, capability and process, not technology alone, will decide who turns AI investment into measurable value, writes Kim Moore, executive associate: people solutions division at Change Logic. Every executive conversation about AI eventually arrives at the...
How has enterprise IT management changed in 20 years?
Twenty years ago, managing enterprise IT in South Africa was a considerably more contained job. By David C Howell, regional sales director at ManageEngine South Africa Most employees worked from an office, using desktops connected to a corporate network, while...
Daft Technologist
By Barry Buck, with Claude Opus 4.8 - Every second video on my feed this month is someone whose life is now run by the agent of the week. It reads their email, books their travel, ships their code and, presumably, walks their dog. Meanwhile, here is my actual evening,...
AI’s value comes down to integration and articulation within systems
The organisation only feels the value of AI when it is deeply connected to the business it serves, writes Jacqui Bond, practice head of AI transformation services at Braintree. In 2026, companies are simultaneously pressured to invest in AI and showcase the value of...
SA’s datacentres need to be treated like critical infrastructure
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in the systems running the economy, the buildings housing that intelligence become part of its attack surface – whether or not anyone ever finds them on a map. By Gary Peel, cloud business development manager: southern...
The real cost hiding in businesses isn’t on the balance sheet
South African businesses have gotten good at spotting cost pressures. Inflation, fuel, hiring freezes - none of it goes unnoticed. What gets missed, according to Nic Laschinger, technology director at Euphoria Telecom, is the money quietly leaking out of a business...
Swan goes live on SSP Pure
Mauritius-based insurer Swan has gone live on SSP’s Pure platform, just over seven months after project commencement, delivering Phase One of the programme on time and within budget. Following a competitive selection process, Swan selected SSP’s Pure platform based on...
Africa’s AI future depends on what we choose to own
Africa does not need to build the world’s largest AI model to shape its place in the AI economy. Our more urgent task is to decide where control must sit as AI moves from pilots into live services. By Brian Pinnock, go-to-market executive of The Cloud Crew Policy...
Lenovo accelerates path to production AI
Lenovo has announced Lenovo AI Express, a new accelerated path to production AI that removes deployment complexities by giving customers of all sizes quicker return on their AI investment. According to Lenovo’s 2026 CIO Playbook, organisations moving from AI...
Nutanix gains Magic Quadrant for distributed hybrid infrastructure
Nutanix has been recognised as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) gives organisations a unified platform to run and manage AI workloads, applications, and data across on-premises, cloud, and...
Workonline consolidates Cape Town network
Workonline Communications is consolidating its Cape Town network around Teraco CT2 as customers seek direct national connectivity from a carrier-neutral data centre with the power, space and interconnection ecosystem to support enterprise, cloud, carrier and subsea...