Features

[Column] Gary Bannatyne: The time for young women to Level Up in tech is here

08-08-2019 | 10:57:00
Although women have come a long way in the workplace in terms of the roles they are now filling, they still make up an incredibly small percentage of the ICT sector.

[Column] Harish Chib: Seven best practices for securing the public cloud

08-07-2019 | 11:00:05
The rapid growth of cloud usage has resulted in a fractured distribution of data, with workloads spread across disparate instances and, for some organizations, platforms.

[Column] Kree Govender: Why Cloud hasn't had a big impact on Business Intelligence

08-07-2019 | 06:54:00
Although the notion of network-based computing stems right back to the 1960s, the modern term “cloud computing” arose in the 2000s, yet, almost two decades later, South Africa still lags in its adoption.

[Column] Henrique Vale: Connected communities

08-07-2019 | 06:40:51
The 5G networks that stand at the edge of deployment demand artificial intelligence. They fuel and empower it.

[Column] Trent Odgers: Maximizing data availability using a multi-cloud approach

08-06-2019 | 14:53:14
The ways businesses leverage cloud to manage and maximize the value of their data continues to evolve.

[Column] Ashlin Perumall: How will we regulate blockchain and cryptocurrency in Africa?

08-06-2019 | 14:46:00
While fintech and mobile solutions for money transfers have taken off in Africa, there has been a mixed reaction thus far from governments to the use and regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency.

[Startup Interview] Lwazi Nongauza, Executive Director, BTN Mobile, South Africa

08-02-2019 | 15:08:00
BTN Mobile is a South African digital telecommunications network that seeks to revolutionize the telecommunications landscape in the country.

[African Blogger interview] Kenn Omollo, Founder, Joon, Kenya

08-02-2019 | 15:05:00
Kenn Omollo is the founder of joon.co.ke one of the top ranked blogs in Kenya that has since 2018 attracted thousands of readers due to its unique content and customer-centric services.

[Column] Greg Whitaker: Embracing VPNs in the wake of government-imposed internet restrictions in Africa

08-02-2019 | 08:10:00
African businesses can find themselves stymied by restrictions and exposed to risk because they have misconceptions about what a VPN can do.

[Column] Elizabeth Adeshina: Technology remains Africa’s saving grace

08-01-2019 | 14:28:01
If Africa is to truly move forward, all sectors of the continent including Health, Education, Infrastructure, Security, logistics, Finance, Media and others must embrace technology.

[Column] Chetan Goshalia: Clear visibility into supply chain complexity

08-01-2019 | 07:32:00
The Internet of Things is refining the capabilities of the supply chain to reduce theft, increase visibility and transform legacy complexity.

[Column] Deon Geyser: If an electron can be in two places at once, why not you?

08-01-2019 | 06:20:33
While it’s unlikely to become a physical reality any time soon, technology has indeed found a way to make it possible for us to be in two places at once virtually.

[Column] Jon Tullett: The evolution of the IT operation

07-31-2019 | 10:40:14
The days where the IT operation was a separate fiefdom with autonomy are gone. In most organisations, there are now components that are relatively closely aligned with the business.

[Column] Andrew Cruise: Two years until Infrastructure as a Service boom hits South Africa

07-31-2019 | 10:33:33
Routed, a leading vendor neutral provider of cloud infrastructure, says that the predicted growth of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is in line with the increasing growth forecasts for cloud computing.

[Column] Nikki Summers: The fourth industrial revolution could spark a wave of small business innovation in East Africa

07-30-2019 | 15:13:00
As a business owner, you may have seen technology and business publications use the term 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' and 'Industry 4.0' lately.

[Column] Llewellyn le Hané: Public and private partnerships key to Namibian ICT space development

07-29-2019 | 11:15:11
In the spirit of good corporate citizenship, organisations both in the public and private sectors in Namibia have an active role to play when it comes to developing skills.

[Column] Tamer Farouk: Using tech to put CFOs in the driver’s seat of their organizations

07-26-2019 | 15:07:00
New innovations in financial IT solutions are opening several opportunities for finance decision-makers in Africa. But realizing the full value of these innovations will require leadership and vision.

[Column] Matthew Kibby: Why technology stands in the way of digital transformation

07-26-2019 | 15:05:00
There’s a common misperception that digital transformation means adopting new technology and jumping on buzzword bandwagons like AI, blockchain, and machine learning.

[Column] Thapelo Petje: Using existing infrastructure to benefit from Fourth Industrial Revolution

07-25-2019 | 13:07:18
If South Africa is to reap the economic benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it needs to look at existing infrastructure within the country's state-owned enterprises and municipalities.

[Column] Adebayo Sanni: Managing the autonomous evolution

07-25-2019 | 10:42:00
Humans are now generating an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day, with more data being created in the past two years than in all of human history.