Breaking news: It’s not always the network
Businesses continue to invest millions in networks, firewalls and cybersecurity, yet many overlook the technology sitting directly between their users and their most critical applications. That blind spot is becoming increasingly expensive, writes Kurt Goodall,...
Shadow AI the next evolution of Shadow IT
Shadow IT, the use of technology systems, software, applications, devices or cloud services without formal approval, management or monitoring, emerged as a by-product of speed and autonomy. By Bryan Hamman, area vice-president: Africa at NetScout When employees moved...
Women build small businesses with big intelligence
Accessible AI is giving women entrepreneurs greater commercial decision-making power, writes Christina Naidoo, chief operating officer of Huawei South Africa. Women know shrinkflation when they see it. Your favourite perfume suddenly comes in a smaller bottle, even...
AI agents augment human expertise in ICT professional services
AI and agentic AI are proving transformative in many use cases, but they aren’t a replacement for human expertise in the ICT professional services space. This is according to Paul Field, professional services/managed services business leader at CASA Software....
From connected mines to intelligent mines: South Africa’s next mining transformation
Huawei South Africa’s Mining roundtable brought miners, technology partners, and academia together to examine how connectivity, trusted data, AI, and digital twins can translate into safer, more productive, and more sustainable operations. Huawei South Africa brought...
Your IT asset register is probably lying to you
Most CIOs believe they have a technology cost problem but many actually have a visibility problem, writes Marcelle Steyn, strategic sales lead at InnoVent. The uncomfortable reality is that a surprising amount of technology inside organisations today is either...
The reason behind all those failed enterprise AI projects
The failed pilots piling up inside South African organisations are not because AI is bad business technology. It’s a reflection of a deeper issue AI mirrors – and the usage bill is what makes that reflection harder and harder to ignore. By Warren Olivier, regional...
AI success depends on network visibility
AI can be said to be dominating business agendas and strategic discussions - but new research by Broadcom reveals that the biggest obstacle to successfully deploying AI in fact the network supporting it. Broadcom’s 2026 State of Network Operations research reveals...
Africa’s AI advantage will be built in production
AI has become remarkably easy to demonstrate, yet deploying it well remains a far harder test. By Paul Spagnoletti, chief revenue officer of Synthesis A convincing prototype can now be assembled in days, sometimes hours. The real work begins when an organisation...
Comfortably Numb
“Comfortably Numb” is a song about anaesthesia. A doctor administers just a little pinprick so the show can go on — the performer feels nothing, and performs brilliantly. Keep that image in mind. It’s about to describe an entire industry.
How SA enterprises maximise the value of their PCs
South African businesses are not in the habit of replacing their hardware every year, nor should they be. By Werner Joubert, commercial SYS business director (South Africa & SADC) at ASUS While IT has evolved to become a much more critical component of the modern...
Sentiv adds Hytera push-to-talk over cellular
Sentiv is bringing Hytera’s Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PTToC) portfolio to organisations that need a more structured and controlled way to coordinate field teams, without extending a full private radio model to every team, site, or function. Security...