How African data centre trends stack up

By Kathy Gibson - Technology trends over the last couple of years have fundamentally changed the way data centres are deployed and used. Cloud computing has become an entrenched part of business computing, while edge deployments are driving new architectures and use...

African CEOs see GenAI as key challenge, opportunity

Kathy Gibson reports – Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is seen as one of the top opportunities and risks for businesses in Africa. This is one of the headline findings of the inaugural KPMG Africa CEO Outlook, which finds that GenAI is seen as a useful tool...

The cost of a data breach reaches new highs

The global average cost of a data breach reached $4,88-million in 2024, as breaches grow more disruptive and further expand demands on cyber teams, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. Breach costs increased 10% from the prior year, the largest yearly jump...

Printing holds its own in a digital world

The advent of digitalisation and online working was expected to have a big adverse effect on printer use and sales. But the numbers tell a different story: yes, growth has slowed since the heyday of printer sales in the 1990s and early 2000s, but it’s still going...

Product Showcase

Salesforce launches Einstein SDR, Sales Coach agents

Salesforce has introduced two new fully autonomous AI sales agents: Einstein Sales Development Rep (SDR) Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent, both built on Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Agentforce Platform.

Events/Report-backs

All the news from Africa Tech Festival

The Africa Tech Festival, taking place this week (11-14 November) in Cape Town, saw telecommunications vendors and operators get together with governments and key policy-makers to pilot the continent on it’s transition to a digital economy.

Channelwise E-Books

AI: the business case, what’s new in AI and automation and Pinnacle seizes opportunities. We report back from Gitex Africa.

Keeping the lights on in 2024

Keeping the lights on in 2024

Compliance key in data modernisation, constant reinvention keeping Nokia relevant, Open source driving the convergence of cloud and AI, and all the action from the Pinnacle Tech Tour.