by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | news
Cisco is making its newly-expanded suite of cloud-based security services available to South African users through a local point of presence (PoP) hosted at AWS. “At a time when cybersecurity is one of the top concerns of every business and public sector leader, our...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Features
A year ago, South Africa was mired in loadshedding, with the importance and relevance of electric vehicles (EVs) far from the public imagination. How can a country that struggles to keep the lights on dedicate time and resources to building out an EV future? By Yael...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Trends and Analysis
As the nation waits for the rescheduled delivery of the Budget Speech on 12 March, many are wondering what tax announcements to expect. It is especially small business owners who will be on tenterhooks as they wait to hear whether the proposed VAT rate hike (from 15%...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Thought Leadership
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become embedded in the systems that power organisations, industries, and people’s daily lives. By Josefin Rosén, trustworthy AI specialist at SAS Generative AI (GenAI), in particular, is reshaping how organisations operate. In doing...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Thought Leadership
As South Africa’s economy shows signs of recovery and growth, small and medium-sized enterprises are poised to experience a boost from the economic uptick – especially those that can harness the top business trends in South Africa set to emerge in 2025. According to...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Thought Leadership
With growing cybersecurity concerns top of mind for many organisations this year, recognising the varying approaches that different generations have to digital safety is an important component of effective security cultures. By Anna Collard, senior vice-president:...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Thought Leadership
Octavian Patrascu CEO of NAGA Group, discusses the future of finance following the launch of the DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) model. As the CEO of NAGA, I’ve been closely watching the AI revolution unfold in the financial services industry. The recent...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Trends and Analysis
By Mauricio Sanchez – 2024 is shaping to be a year of correction across most enterprise network markets, as indicated by a notable decline in spending among key segments. This correction follows extraordinary growth from 2021 to 2023, driven by the surge in...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Trends and Analysis
By 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, an increase from under 10% in mid-2023, according to Gartner. “Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are increasingly looking to AI-based analytics and augmented decision...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 28, 2025 | Trends and Analysis
Data centre (DC) storage revenue – including external storage from both arrays and server expansions – will climb to $103-billion by 2028, according to new research from Omdia. The DC storage market in 2023 experienced a downturn, primarily due to economic...
