Gold Fields breaks tradition with bold AWS cloud strategy

[Lindsey Schutters] Mining companies are usually shy of sharing data, but Gold Fields is going all in on AWS cloud...

Zoho is focused on growing local talent and AI integration

[Lindsey Schutters] Zoho grows its South African presence by investing in local talent and AI innovation…

Microsoft strong revenue growth shows that cloud is king

[Lindsey Schutters] Microsoft revenue is up 16% on the back of Azure global footprint expansion and intelligent cloud adoption…

Google's vision for AI depends on the prompt

[Lindsey Schutters] Yvette Baez, Google’s business strategist for AI had a media tour to South Africa to promote Gemini and AI…

#MWC2024: Huawei Cloud expands globally, eyes growing AI market

[Lindsey Schutters] Huawei Enterprise used Mobile World Congress as an opportunity to court European customers for its cloud services…

Nvidia posts record earnings in data centre, gaming, and extends AI lead

[Lindsey Schutters] Nvidia extended its lead in the AI hardware market with record revenues in its last fiscal...

Joburg goes live as operational Google Cloud region

[Lindsey Schutters] Google announced the operational launch of its Cloud region in Johannesburg last week....

#BehindtheSelfie: Adam Shapiro, CEO at Autopilot Workflow Solutions

[Lindsey Schutters] Adam Shapiro founded one of the South African low code success stories in 2014, when the term was first coined...

Nvidia is the early winner in the AI gold rush

[Lindsey Schutters] Nvidia's second quarter financials make for great reading for the future viability of the AI industry...

Equiano cable keeps Africa connected during undersea faults

[Lindsey Schutters] African data traffic increases on Google's Equiano undersea cable while repairs are being done on WACS and SAT-3...

Channel has a key role in delivering cloud services, but data remains critical

[Gerhard Fourie] Cloud has undoubtedly become the delivery method of choice for businesses, particularly those in the SMME space, to access enterprise-class technology cost-effectively...

Can data privacy concerns be managed when moving to the cloud?

[Gary Allemann] We need one policy to govern data across the entire environment...

Creating competitive experiences with cloud

[Wynand Smit] The cloud is more than hype, hyper scale and hypothetical benefits. It's evolved to provide organisations with an intelligent and customisable toolkit...

Containerisation tech is vital for businesses needing to do more with less

[Modeen Malick] At a time when economic pressures are forcing businesses to sweat their IT assets and do more with less, container technology and Kubernetes can be instrumental...

Why cloud computing needs a new operational mindset

[James Hickman] Many of Africa's largest businesses are shifting to a fully cloud-based or hybrid cloud IT environment. Yet ironically, many businesses that have migrated some or all of their IT functions to the cloud are failing to capitalise on the very elements that prompted the move...

Eliminating bias is the new frontier of AI innovation

[Rudeon Snell] 2020 is forcing us to confront some hard truths about the world we live in. The Covid-19 pandemic has cast a sobering spotlight on the unsustainable path we are on...

Next-generation cloud and today's business paradigm

[Niral Patel] The term "futureproofing" has been well used since the advent of cloud and recently the buzzword has proven to have real-world resonance...

#LockdownLessons: INOVO embraces cloud-based solutions

[Evan-Lee Courie] #LockdownLessons explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses...

Building a Centre of Excellence to deliver functional digital maturity

[Johan Walters] Setting up a Centre of Excellence can nurture a cohesive team, focused on deliverables that benefit the entire organisation, while moving it closer to real digital maturity...

Why enterprise martech implementations fail

[Johan Walters] One of the biggest stumbling blocks when trying to harness the power of cloud marketing technology is a fundamental disconnect between marketing, business and technology leaders...