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Africa’s drift to cloud

When it comes to continental cloud, South Africa has well over 90% of the installed capacity.

Brainstorm 2024 calendar winner crowned

Zhinel Pretorius has won the 2024 Brainstorm calendar competition commissioned by Huawei and Mustek.

C-Suite
Matthew Burbidge

The network effect

Lerato Dolamo has a stellar reputation in telecommunications earned through her skills, willingness to learn, and prowess at building networks – of the literal and personal kind.

Technology
Kate Thompson Davy

Volvo EX30: small car, big dreams

The Volvo EX30 is Volvo’s smallest, fastest, and least expensive EV.

Technology
Nafisa Akabor

The new, polarised, world order

What will be the long-term implications of the US trying to hobble China’s access to advanced technologies?

Technology
Matthew Burbidge

How to drive digitalisation in oil, gas and mining

The oil, gas and mining industries must find smart routes to digitalisation. Technology is under pressure to deliver results for companies that allow them to see rapid results in productivity, operations, health, safety and sustainability.

Roundtable
Tamsin Mackay

Make your own AI

No coding experience? No data scientists? No problem.

Innovation
James Francis

What’s in a name?

Who can we blame for AI’s dumb moniker?

Technology
Kate Thompson Davy

What kind of employee are you?

New study sheds light on what employers and workers really want.

Technology
Adam Oxford

Trust me, I’m a deepfake

GenAI presents a threat and an opportunity to cyber teams. What has been the experience of South African security personnel?

Roundtables
Matthew Burbidge

Give them circuses

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.” Juvenal

Technology
Bronwyn Williams

The rise of cosy games

Popular video games aren’t only about sports, or surviving the apocalypse. Sometimes they’re cute, wholesome, cosy.

Innovation
Tiana Cline

Even robots love poetry

I am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks: Poems

Innovation
Tamsin Oxford

The whispers are true

It’s been a long road, but transcription software is finally showing some promise.

Innovation
Kate Thompson Davy

Don’t drop it, box it

Is Dropbox still a solid solution for the organisation?

Technology
Tamsin Mackay

The value of digital within ecommerce

The ecommerce sector in South Africa is discovering new ground and exploring new ways of capturing customers and market share. As competition increases, so does the need for companies within this sector to find technologies and solutions that give them a competitive edge.

Roundtable
Tamsin Mackay

The ‘please be good news’ edition

Want a way of managing skills development for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Done! Fancy an aquaponics company that transforms the environment? Sorted!

Technology
Tamsin Mackay

REINVENTION 2.0

At Accenture, ‘it’s not just about nice slides’, says the company’s CEO, Vukani Mngxati.

Technology
Lesley Stones

Why lift-and-shift doesn’t work

With cloud, it’s a mixed picture in South Africa. Some enterprises are well on their way, while others still appear to have prosaic concerns.

Roundtable
Matthew Burbidge

The AI-fuelled data tsunami

The datacentre boom is just getting started, and will be supercharged by AI.

Technology
Matthew Burbidge

The Gen AI MBA

It's time for universities to not just embrace the AI revolution, but lead it.

Technology
Tiana Cline

How Nutanix is profiting from VMware sale

Nutanix has finally turned a profit and says it’s seeing much activity in its pipeline, following the sale of VMware to Broadcom.

Verticals
Matthew Burbidge

Shall we play a game?

What does it take to turn an organisation’s biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, its employees, into an engaged, proactive human firewall?

Features
Tiana Cline

Measuring carbon, from the top-down

Making sense of carbon emissions, offsets and markets using geospatial analytics.

Technology
Tiana Cline

Unpacking the rise of industry clouds

By focusing on the problems that really matter to your industry, industry clouds offer composable building blocks– cloud services, applications and other tools – that are built for strategic use cases in specific industries.

Technology
Joanne Carew

Our beautiful, stupid, AI

Fixing society is harder than tweaking a few lines of code.

Technology
Alistair Fairweather

Cloud adoption in an AI world

Synthesis Software Technologies' Spagnoletti describes the shift he is seeing as local cloud adoption matures, and value goes beyond cost and scalability.

Features
Tiana Cline

The business case for telco modernisation

If modernisation was easy, every telco would have done it by now. Here’s what local telcos are doing to find a balance between the old and the new.

Features
Joanne Carew

Brave new hybrid work world

With hybrid work arrangements growing in popularity, what tools, technologies and policies are needed to ensure that remote and in-office teams can work together seamlessly?

Features
Joanne Carew