Author: Chris Anu

Local tech job cuts depend on the broader economic and commercial environment. A new wave of job cuts has hit the global technology industry, with software giant Microsoft becoming the latest firm to announce layoffs.The Microsoft job cuts will reportedly impact approximately 6 000 people, or 3% of the company’s global workforce. CNBC reported that the cuts will impact the market, irrespective of region. Microsoft says the layoffs are part of efforts to streamline operations and invest more heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Similarly, cyber security firm CrowdStrike revealed it would eliminate 5% of its workforce, citing efficiencies gained…

Apple CEO Tim Cook US President Donald Trump said he’s asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to stop building plants in India, taking aim at the iPhone maker’s plans to diversify its manufacturing beyond China. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said of his conversation with the Apple boss in Qatar, where he’s on a state visit. “He is building all over India. I don’t want you building in India.” As a result of their discussion, Trump said Apple will be “upping their production in the United States”. India has one of the highest-tariff barriers in the…

Hexion Storage Networks builds Africa’s largest All-NVMe SAN backbone with H3C Hexion Storage Networks (www.hexion.co.za), Africa’s only six-data centre distributed All-NVMe data protection and storage platform, recently announced the completion of its state-of-the-art SAN (storage area network) backbone.Built on a dedicated and fully meshed 40km dark-fibre ring and spanning six geo-redundant data centres within Cape Town, the backbone delivers sub-0.4ms roundtrip latency over 100Gbps links – scalable to 200Gbps – meeting the most stringent performance requirements for modern storage workloads.“Low latency is non-negotiable for enterprise storage services,” said Zaid Bester, Chief Technology Officer at Hexion. “By leveraging H3C’s S6850 Datacentre…

Retailer Spar Group has launched an MVNO offering that includes 5G data services and will piggyback off MTN’s network infrastructure, according to a statement. Customers can purchase Spar Mobile Sim cards at any Spar, Tops, Spar Express or SaveMor store, it said, and customers will get “free data” every time they shop, according to Blake Raubenheimer, the group’s omnichannel executive. Each Spar Mobile Sim card comes pre-loaded with 300MB of data and R10 airtime that does not expire unless used. Customers can choose to get a new number or keep their current number by going through an in-store porting process.…

Boomi and AWS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Transform Enterprise AI Integration, Automation, and SAP Cloud Migration Boomi™, the leader in AI-driven automation, today announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers build, manage, monitor and govern generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents across enterprise operations. Additionally, the SCA will aim to help customers accelerate SAP migrations from on-premises to AWS. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250514456908/en/Enterprise organizations today struggle with fragmented AI agent management across multiple platforms and environments, incurring potential security risks and operational inefficiencies. As AI agent…

There are, broadly, three options when countries consider the direction of their public policy paradigms, represented by the three major economic powers of the world. The first is production, represented by Asia, and particularly China. The second is innovation, primarily represented by the US – the origin of the present generative artificial intelligence boom. And the final is regulation, represented by the EU. Of course, South Africa’s political elite has long chosen the third option. This is manifested not only in the recent call by parliament for podcasts to be regulated, but also by the department of communications & digital…

Boomi Advances AI-Driven Automation with Major Announcements at Boomi World 2025 Boomi™, the leader in AI-driven automation, today announced a set of product innovations designed to accelerate and scale intelligent automation across the enterprise. These innovations — including the general availability of Boomi Agentstudio, powerful new AI agents, the addition of Boomi Data Integration (formerly Rivery) to the Boomi Enterprise Platform, and support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) — reflect the company’s commitment to business transformation through a unified, open, and AI-native platform. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250514271179/en/“Today’s enterprises are overwhelmed by digital fragmentation…

The ailing South African Post Office has cost taxpayers almost R10-billion since 2014 – and it still wants more money from the public purse to keep it from going bust once and for all. TechCentral reported last week that the Post Office, which has been in business rescue – a local form of bankruptcy protection – since July 2023, will receive a R381-million subsidy from the labour department’s Ters (Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme) fund to help pay salaries for the next six months. The grant follows a R150-million “virement” the state-owned company received from national treasury in February, which was…

New channel partnership looks to address the challenge of shortening certificate lifespans. Sectigo, a global provider of digital certificates and automated certificate life cycle management (CLM), and Altron Security, provider of holistic identity and digital security solutions in SA, announced a strategic channel partnership. According to a statement released by the companies, this collaboration enables Altron Security to leverage Sectigo’s cloud-native CLM solutions to strengthen its digital certificate management offering and “ultimately mitigate the risk of business outages due to mismanaged certificates, improve overall security and help future proof businesses for the quantum era”.Sectigo’s acquisition of the Entrust public certificate…

Schalk Visser has worked in telecommunications for more than 20 years, first at Telkom, then at Vodacom and now at Cell C, where he has served as chief information and technology officer since 2020. Visser, an engineer, joined Cell C 13 years ago – during the tenure of former CEO Alan Knott-Craig – as an executive in the company’s programme management office, where he helped lead a renewal of its radio access network. Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro TechCentral’s guest in the latest episode of the publication’s Meet the CIO podcast, Visser tells host Duncan McLeod about his career…