Author: Chris Anu
Amazon Web Services was recovering on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps — Snapchat and Reddit — and disrupted businesses globally. The turmoil marked the largest internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, and highlights the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies. The impact in South Africa, however, seems to have been minimal, with the worst effects felt by US technology platform providers. After roughly three hours of disruptions, systems were gradually coming back online as of 12pm…
AWS is observing early signs of recovery for some impacted AWS services. Cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered a global outage that is affecting users. Providing updates on the AWS Health Dashboard, the company says it is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region.“This issue may also be affecting case creation through the AWS Support Centre or the Support API.“We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand the root cause.”In a later update, it confirms significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint…
Government is considering a “mega bid window” that accelerates energy deployment and fast-tracks industrialisation, localisation and job creation across the energy infrastructure value chain. This comes after the announcement of its R2.2-trillion energy plan, which aims to boost renewable generation, with the private sector expected to fund about two-thirds of the investment. Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, who released details of the 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on Sunday, said government is considering the expanded bid window due to issues with past bid processes. Government also wants to deal with South Africa’s transmission development plan in the next bid window “Part…
SITA seeks a panel of suppliers to perform migration services of its clients’ applications, databases and servers to the Government Private Cloud Eco-system. It’s a promising week for the hardware sector, with several public sector organisations taking to National Treasury’s eTenders Portal to source infrastructure. However, a request for information from the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) reveals government is taking a different approach to end-user computing requirements. The advertisement sees the agency requesting information for the establishment of a transversal contract for the provision of leasing of personal computers, mobile devices and computer peripherals and related services for government…
MultiChoice is reviving one of South African television’s most nostalgic traditions – Open Time – to mark 30 years since the 1995 launch of DStv. It’s limited in duration, but for one weekend in November, all decoder customers will get full Premium access, including sport, movies and entertainment. Running from 7-9 November 2025, the promotion will give active DStv satellite subscribers access to every Premium channel at no extra cost – clearly an effort to entice customers to upgrade to higher tiers and to attract new customers to the platform. MultiChoice is also cutting decoder prices – by 30% in…
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Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa South Africa’s new R2.2-trillion energy plan is going to see a dramatic increase in renewable energy, with the private sector expected to contribute two-thirds of the investment. Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, who released details of the 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which maps out the country’s future energy mix, said on Sunday that by 2039, renewables, gas and nuclear will be supplying more power to the country than coal. He said 58% of the energy mix in terms of megawatts was coal. By 2039, this will be halved to 27% of the total generation capacity, which…
Rashid Ishmail, CISO at Access Bank. The continued shift to distributed environments, cloud-first architectures, remote workforces and global supply chains has heightened cyber and information risk exposure. Oversight in distributed environments needs to be strengthened, urges Rashid Ishmail, CISO at Access Bank.Ishmail will speak at the ITWeb GRC 2025 event on 30 October at The Forum, The Campus, in Bryanston.He will explain why traditional oversight models often fall short in managing the complexity and velocity of threats emerging from third-party relationships and supply chain interdependencies. See also Ishmail will explore how to strengthen oversight mechanisms to effectively identify, assess and…
After a series of sputtering starts, it finally looks like all the puzzle pieces are falling into place for the rise of smart glasses as the next great consumer technology. All the puzzle pieces, that is, except one, and that one could stay forever lost. Dramatic progress has been made in important technologies that make smart glasses a usable, and even attractive, proposition. The term “smart glasses” is a little vague, so let’s be clear. We’re not talking about virtual reality headsets. We’re not talking about glasses with electronically controlled adaptive lenses or filters, either. We’re talking about wearable computers…
Graham Douglas, chief customer and revenue officer at Mimecast. Global cyber security firm Mimecast has appointed Graham Douglas as chief customer and revenue officer with the mandate to unite customer success, sales and go-to-market strategy and secure growth. Mimecast notes it has over 42 000 customers globally (4 400 of which are based in SA) and protects over 27 million end-users in over 100 countries.Douglas was most recently senior VP of the Americas at Mimecast and brings over 25 years of experience building and scaling teams across the cyber security and technology sectors, says Mimecast.“Graham joined Mimecast eight months ago…