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Microsoft outage exposes risks of concentrated digital workflows

A widespread Microsoft outage that began on 12 November 2026 disrupted Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 across 74 countries, generating over 130 000 Downdetector reports. While Microsoft confirmed it was investigating Exchange Online mailbox access issues across...

Despite perceived value, companies lag in digital workplace redesign

Eight in 10 IT decision-makers say the digital workplace is critical to successful AI-led transformation – but only 10% report fundamentally redesigning it for AI. This is among the findings from Lenovo’s sixth Work Reborn report, The AI-ready workplace, which exposes...

AI risk is growing faster than AI value

CIOs and IT leaders report that AI risk is growing faster than AI value in their organisations and, as a result, the new challenge for CIOs is to compound value faster than risk, says Gartner. Gartner analysts say that value and risk are interconnected, and CIOs must...

Don’t bank on Dezemba to turn your business around

Festive trading is often regarded as a make-or-break period for South African small businesses, but its impact is far from uniform. A 2025 SME Confidence Index survey by Business Partners Limited reveals that, while 45,35% of respondents reported a positive impact on...
AMD Helion brings agentic AI compute at rack scale

AMD Helion brings agentic AI compute at rack scale

AMD has introduced the AMD Helion agentic AI rack, an open blueprint for agentic AI infrastructure based on an Open Compute Project spec-design and powered by AMD compute. Building on the open-platform approach of the AMD Helios rackscale solution, AMD Helion is...

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PC shipments fall to Q1 2023 levels

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 55,4-million units in the third quarter of 2026 - down 22,4% from the third quarter of 2025 - according to preliminary results from Gartner. “The impact of higher memory and storage costs is now fully reflected in PC pricing,” says...

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