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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...

Bending AI to Africa’s needs: the key to transforming classrooms

The opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) offer African teachers and students are immense; the AI education market in the Middle East and Africa is projected to hit $1.7 billion by 2030. By Niall McNulty, AI product and innovation leader for Cambridge...

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...

The silent risk: poor heat management in data centre design

In South Africa, many conversations about data centre resilience have tended to centre on power, but today, backup power is a given – no credible data centre provider operates without it. The real differentiator lies elsewhere, in the efficiency and precision of the...

Building SA’s next chapter through sustainable infrastructure

As nations and industries shift from ambition to execution in sustainability strategies, South Africa stands at a pivotal moment to redefine infrastructure as a vehicle for climate-resilient development, economic inclusion and measurable environmental impact, moving...

SA  business leaders double down on AI and hiring

South African executives are entering 2026 with heightened optimism for growth, increased hiring plans and an intensified focus on artificial intelligence, according to new research from Accenture. The findings, published in Accenture’s Pulse of Change report ahead of...

How AI will transform the workplace in 2026

If you think just about every assumption about work has already been upended, get ready for even faster change in 2026. The key driver? Agentic AI. By Kevin Delaney, senior writer for Cisco Global Communications Because while we’ve already seen big paradigm shifts in...

Highlights from CES 2026

The year kicked off with the CES 2026, held in Las Vegas from 6 to 9 January. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence (AI) innovations were under the spotlight. Vendors also seized the opportunity to launch new consumer-based products and solutions.   US...

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