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The deeming provision ruling: what businesses need to know
On 26th July 2018, after three years of debate, the Constitutional Court made a judgement regarding the roles and responsibilities of Temporary Employment Service (TES) providers and their clients with regards to employees. This pertains to the deeming provision referred…
Sage calls for businesses to define the ethical principles that guide AI development
Sage, multinational enterprise software company in cloud business management solutions released “Building a Competitive, Ethical AI Economy,” a position paper that uncovers the important and unanswered questions surrounding AI. The paper by Sage, which serves 3 million businesses in 23…
Lagos Digital Academy to empower entrepreneurs in Nigeria
Lagos Digital Academy (LDA) has unveiled an academy that aims to enable Nigerians to take advantage of the opportunities available in the digital market space. LDA is designed to create a step-change and equip digital migrants with market-driven, dynamic and…
South Africa needs to prioritise STEM education of face deepening unemployment
South Africa already faces well-known challenges in its education system, felt nowhere more strongly than in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). And while this is a major concern under any circumstance, the relentless penetration of technology…
Why ‘Chat Banking’ is the future of financial services in Africa
Numerous reports indicate that messaging has overtaken social media in popularity, with the combined users of the top four chat apps outnumbering the combined users of the top four social networks. WhatsApp alone reports that users send 65 billion messages…
Cyber-crime attacks among start-ups are on the increase
Cyber-crime is a real and present danger and attacks are becoming increasingly common and more sophisticated, especially among small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs). It is estimated that 32% of South African businesses have experienced cyber-attacks according to the Global Economic…
Local Azure data centres to create new revenue streams for South African IT channel
The imminent launch of Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa will help dispel many of the fears still holding companies back from deploying the cloud for mission-critical applications, in turn creating a significant market opportunity for local resellers and…
Critical features for your best CMMS
It’s your duty as a maintenance planner or maintenance manager to ensure facilities, equipment and facilities are adequately maintained. Where there’s a lot of machinery and equipment, keeping track of this information can be extremely challenging. Having a Best CMMS will…
Internet of Things explained for the CFO in six short words
When you boil it right down, the primary responsibility of the corporate Chief Financial Officer comes down to a few short words. “Allocate resources well, reduce waste and manage risk”. For CFOs and the finance leadership in organisations, someone raising…
2018 GIL Africa Awards and CEO Think Tank to focus on Digital Transformation in helping Africa grow
The 10th annual Growth Innovation and Leadership (GIL) African awards hosted by Frost & Sullivan, in partnership with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), will take place on the 13th of September 2018 at the Table Bay in Cape Town. Frost…
Full, differential and incremental backup explained
There exist more than three backup methods. However, the three main include full, differential and incremental backups. The latter two are considered smart backup options mainly because they save back up time and storage space. This is not to mean…
Cloud computing – embrace the trend, but know the risks
The recent improvements in computer networking technology coupled with highly efficient storage mechanisms have led to the rise of high-speed connectivity and given organisations and individuals the ability to move large amounts of data / information over the internet to…
Vox selects Teraco to grow data centre footprint
Vox has selected Teraco’s Riverfields Hyperscale data centre facility near Kempton Park as an additional location in the Gauteng region, from which to provide services to a wide range of customers. “Provisioning of our routing, switching, compute, storage and associated…
Why you should consider studying AI and Machine Learning
We’ve entered an age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and while many people are still getting used to the idea of AI, education institutions have already started a rollout as part of the curriculum. For years, we’ve adapted to the traditional way…
Hyperscalers disrupting the cloud space in Africa
With a dominant position in the cloud and networks, hyperscalers are consequently becoming leaders in the services space. A study conducted by Cisco reveals that hyperscale data centres will represent 53 percent of all installed data centre servers by 2021.…
Critical factors to fuel the data-driven enterprise
Successful digital businesses depend on data to provide the insights necessary to deliver new innovations, products, and services. But those insights are only as good as the underlying data. As the number of business decision-makers who depend on real-time data…
