Author: Chris Anu

Dorio Bowes, Comstor Director at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa. (Image: Supplied) For all the bold predictions made about digital transformation, cloud computing and hybrid IT models, the reality for many businesses is still deeply complex. Cloud adoption has often been enthusiastic but fragmented, resulting in overlapping services, underused platforms and vulnerable systems. The gears in this conversation have shifted from “move to the cloud” to a more layered and nuanced focus on how infrastructure supports performance, security and scale in equal measure.The CIO’s job is no longer to merely oversee technology choices. It is to design and lead an adaptable IT…

Dado Ruvic/Reuters Nvidia’s deal with Intel could put the struggling chip maker’s next-generation manufacturing technology on a stronger footing, even without a direct commitment from the AI chip leader to use that technology to make its own chips, analysts said. Nvidia on Thursday invested US$5-billion in Intel for a stake of roughly 4%, and the two firms agreed to a deal to supply chips to one another to create “multiple generations” of joint products. Those products will connect Intel’s central processors and Nvidia’s artificial intelligence and graphics chips with a speedy and proprietary Nvidia connection technology called NVLink. This could…

Henry Adams, country manager for InterSystems South Africa. The application of AI in the country’s healthcare industry means faster insights, more personalised services and solutions that reflect the realities of the industry’s system, says InterSystems South Africa, the local branch of US-based data technology provider InterSystems. However, cost, complexity and value-add in real-time are challenges that need to be overcome to realise benefits.At the company’s flagship READY 2025 Summit, hosted in Sandton this week, executives offered an overview of its AI strategy, underpinned by what the company describes as its “secret sauce” – a fast, flexible common data plane.The company’s strategy…

Generative and agentic AI are no longer experiments for most customer experience (CX) leaders. According to CallMiner’s 2025 CX Landscape Report, 96% of global customer experience and contact centre leaders believe implementing artificial intelligence (including generative and agentic AI) is key to their CX and contact centre strategies, up from 87% in 2024. That said, while AI adoption is making quick gains, this year’s report also reveals that organisations are still struggling to manage those investments with proper governance structures. Further, nearly half (42%) of organisations still rely on manual processes to analyse CX data, and 62% admit they don’t…

‘Ghost workers’ are still earning salaries as civil servants. National Treasury is using digital solutions to weed out what it calls ‘ghost workers’ – non-existent civil servants who are pulling a salary. It aims to finalise the identification process by November.A recent presentation to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration showed that millions of rands are lost each year when salaries are paid to people who have resigned, been fired, retired, or are dead.The Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration says in a statement that members of the committee were “stern in their rebuke of accounting officers…

Google will integrate Gemini into its Chrome web browser for users in the US starting on Thursday, just weeks after a federal judge spared the company from a forced breakup in an antitrust case. The company won’t have to sell the browser, a judge in Washington said earlier this month, handing a rare win to Big Tech in its battle with US antitrust enforcers, but ordered it to share data with rivals to open up competition in online search. The Gemini AI models add-on to Chrome will be available to Mac and Windows desktop users in the US with their…

Morten Gammelgard, Co-Founder and Global CRO at BullWall. Perimeter and preventative cyber security controls are no longer enough to protect organisations from the ransomware onslaught – automated containment solutions are now necessary to help contain attacks in real-time and improve ransomware resilience. Speaking during a webinar hosted by Solid8 Technologies and BullWall, in partnership with ITWeb, BullWall Co-Founder and Global CRO Morten Gammelgard and Engineering VP Andy Walsh said 24/7 automated containment solutions fill the gap between prevention and recovery solutions, and enhance overall resilience. A poll of webinar attendees found that 48% believed their current preventative security measures would…

Eskom said on Friday that South Africa’s power system remains stable, with month-to-date energy availability at 71% and unplanned outages at an eight-year low. The state-owned utility reported that unplanned outages fell to less than 6GW on 14 September 2025, down 5.6GW year on year. For the week of 12-18 September, unplanned outages averaged 7.5GW, well below 13.1GW in the same week last year. Planned maintenance averaged 5.2GW over the period, aligned to Eskom’s summer plan. South Africa has recorded 126 consecutive days without load shedding. Eskom said demand has been met “over 97% of the time” in the current…

Maher Yamout, lead security researcher for the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky. South Africa saw a 123% increase in malware in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2024.Furthermore, banking trojans grew 136%, and infostealers increased by 122%, over the same period. These insights – as well as ransomware trends and the impact of supply chain attacks − were revealed during a media session on the local cyber threats landscape, hosted by cyber security firm Kaspersky, in Johannesburg, this week. See also Maher Yamout, lead security researcher in Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team,…

Norwegian renewable energy systems specialist Scatec has piloted the use of industrial electric vehicles at its solar farms in the Northern Cape. Responding to a query from TechCentral, Scatec said the three vehicles used in the pilot – two Maxus T90EV bakkies and a Scatec eDeliver panel van, supplied by Everlectric – are charged at the solar farms as operational staff perform their duties during the day and charged using grid power when parked at night. “Scatec is committed to achieving net-zero emissions across all our global operations by 2040,” said Sean McGibbon, supply chain manager for Scatec. We’re gaining…