by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Features
By Junaid Kleinschmidt and Ntsako Baloyi – Within the South African business community, cloud adoption has moved well beyond early migration conversations. Yet many organisations still treat cloud as a completed journey once systems are stable and uptime targets...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Features
As geopolitical tensions mount and AI re-shapes the digital landscape, governments worldwide face an urgent new reality: true national sovereignty now depends as much on controlling digital infrastructure as it does on physical borders, according toGlobalData. The...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Features
For today’s executives in South Africa, Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a delicate balancing act. On one side lies the immense pressure to harness AI for economic growth, rapid decision-making, and competitive advantage; on the other lies a complex web of...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
African Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) subscribers across nine operational markets are forecast to increase from about 7,9-million in 2025 to 39,6-million by 2030. This is according to the newly published 2026 Africa MVNO Report by Africa Analysis Team, which...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Every cybersecurity recommendation carries the reseller’s name with it, writes André Kannemeyer, CEO technology officer at Duxbury Networking. When a platform performs well, the customer sees a sound technology decision. When it generates noise, misses activity,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – There has never been a more exciting time to be a developer – particularly in Africa. This is the message from Jyoti Ball, GM: sub-Saharan Africa at AWS, who points out that we are living through a time when many technology streams are booming,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | news
Fixed wireless connectivity and private network operator Comsol is entering the home broadband market as a wholesale provider of 5G infrastructure. The move is backed by two new shareholders: Platform Investment Partners, which has made 10 founder-stage fibre...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | Events/Report-backs
AWS has set up a dedicated AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organisation, backed by a $1-billion investment. The AWS FDE model is agentic-first, compresses timelines from months to days, and is designed so customers are self-sufficient when a deployment ends...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | news
MiRO has been appointed to distribute Tarana’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) solution in South Africa. G1, billed as the world’s first ngFWA solution, has been deployed by more than 300 operators worldwide to deliver reliable broadband to hundreds of...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 20, 2026 | news
Climb Channel Solutions South Africa has expanded its long-term investment in South Africa with the signing of a distribution partnership with Utimaco, a global provider of IT security solutions. The partnership will also cover the rest of Africa, Indian Ocean Islands...