Cybersecurity training needs urgent overhaul

As the nature and complexity of cyber threats rapidly evolves, companies have realised that they must look beyond purely tech solutions and equip their employees with the skills to safeguard the business against attack. However, Mimecast has found that while 86% of...

Enterprise AI is at a critical tipping point

Kathy Gibson reports – We are at a critical moment in the race for enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) – winning is no longer about who adopts AI, but who scales safely, efficiently and with business impact. This is the headline finding from IDC’s CIO...

Cloud infrastructure spend accelerates

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 99,3% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2024 (4Q24) to $67-billion. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...

Make a quantum leap in computational capabilities

By John Roese – The world of computing is advancing at an extraordinary pace, and businesses everywhere are working to keep up. While quantum computing (QC) is on track to revolutionise technology, it isn’t poised to replace classical computing just yet....

Design for disruption by building in redundancy

By Adil El Youssefi – In May 2025, a brief yet wide-reaching internet outage in South Africa, caused by a single point of failure in a core internet exchange, revealed just how exposed even mature digital ecosystems can be. The interruption only lasted a few...