by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | news
South Africans are expected to spend about R159-billion online in 2026, as e-commerce grows by an estimated 22,5% and records its first full year at 10% of national retail turnover on a like-for-like nominal basis. These are the central findings of Online Retail in...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | news
Westcon-Comstor has announced a multi-region distribution agreement with AI code verification and governance provider Sonar. The partnership provides high-value growth opportunities for channel partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Features
Traditionally, automation partnerships centred on clear deliverables, identifying requirements, supplying the right equipment, and ensuring reliable support. Today, it is changing into a more advisory-led model that complements the new era of industrial automation...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | news
Rhenus Logistics Southern Africa has been recognised with Samsung’s Best Supplier Award 2025. The award recognises Rhenus’ consistent commitment to service quality, reliability and innovation in supporting Samsung’s supply chain requirements across...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Thought Leadership
By Chris Wright – Lately, headlines dominated by AI-driven zero-day vulnerabilities have raised a question: Is open source software becoming too risky for the enterprise? With open source comprising more than three-quarters of the average enterprise codebase,...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
By Musa Masungwini – What is the cost of discovering a cyberattack only after it has reached your Security Operations Centre (SOC)? For many organisations, that cost includes operational disruption, financial losses, reputational damage and significant recovery...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Thought Leadership
By Mandy Duncan – For South African IT teams in 2026, cyber defence is akin to defending a goal line with an outdated playbook. The formations are familiar, the instincts well-rehearsed, but the opponents have levelled up their standard of play. The old ways of...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
Chief information security officers (CISOs) must rethink how they lead security, identity and innovation as AI accelerates both opportunity and disruption, says Gartner. To stay ahead, security leaders should focus on three priorities: modernising identity as...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models, according to Gartner. AI tokens are the units of data processed by generative...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
More than 70% of mainframe exit projects initiated in 2026 will fail to produce the intended benefits due to an overestimation of generative AI (GenAI) tooling capabilities, according to Gartner. “There is a widening gap between the marketing promise of GenAI and its...
