by Kathy Gibson | Jun 4, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – Businesses in Africa face an unprecedented crisis as a result of Covid – as well as social and economic impacts that will be felt long after the world returns to some form of normal. Isaah Mhlanga, chief economist at Alexander Forbes, points out...
by Kathy Gibson | May 21, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports from the IDC CIO Summit – With the massive changes that Covid-19 has brought about over the past year, a massive 62% of South African CIOs have accelerated their digital transformation initiatives. “This is a positive indicator that digital...
by Kathy Gibson | May 21, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – SUSE is positioning Linux and Kubernetes at the centre of digital transformation, and has launched a raft of solutions that address the data centre, the cloud and the edge. Sheng, president: engineering and innovation at SUSE, explains that...
by Kathy Gibson | May 12, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – Online shopping has reached the tipping point, having doubled in volume and value in just one year. This isn’t the end of the traditional bricks-and-mortar store, says Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, although it will start losing...
by Kathy Gibson | May 7, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – 5G, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) could hold the key to South Africa’s future, giving us the opportunity to leapfrog into the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Arthur Goldstuck, MD of research company World Wide Worx, points out that...
by Kathy Gibson | May 7, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – Technology has accelerated the blurring of lines between the physical and virtual worlds, and the trend looks set to continue. Sihlalo Jordan, deputy-CEO of Deloitte, points out that the world has seen a technology revolution of...