NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver a powerful, integrated solution for enterprise data protection and cyber resilience. The unified solution enables resilience, security, and rapid recovery for customers across on-premises and cloud environments, giving…
Salvador Anglada Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada says the very same algorithms that made credit-vetting decisions via mobile wallets can be used in formal banking. Newly listed, technology-driven fintech Optasia sees the formal banking sector as a “massive opportunity” for growth as the company’s microfinancing business continues to overtake its traditional airtime advance offering. Speaking to…
CSC, an enterprise-class domain security provider and world leader in domain management, DNS, digital certificate management, brand protection, and anti-fraud solutions, is proud to announce its selection as a Cutting-Edge Certificate Lifecycle Management award winner in the 2026 Global InfoSec Awards. “This award from Cyber Defense Magazine is a testament to CSC’s innovation in digital…
Namibia has turned down applications from Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink for a telecommunications service licence and access to radio spectrum, a notice in the Southern African country’s government gazette showed. The notice, dated 23 March, did not say why Starlink’s applications were declined. The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia could reconsider the decisions…
Rimini Street Wins Multiple Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service Excellence Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced wins in three categories of the 20th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This…
Post Office business rescue practitioner Anoosh Rooplal. Photo: Tinashe Mazodze The business rescue practitioners in charge of saving the South African Post Office have on two occasions approached government for permission to sell some of the company’s assets and to go the open market for funding in an effort to salvage the embattled entity’s finances….
In a definitive conclusion to a high-stakes corporate battle, Paramount Skydance has emerged as the winner in the race to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). The path was cleared on Thursday when streaming titan Netflix officially declined to match Paramount’s superior bid, ending months of intense speculation and hostile manoeuvring within the entertainment industry. Read:…
Weak SIM registration processes continue to enable fraud. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson, with images from ITWeb, Pexels and Freepik) Amid growing calls for biometric registration of SIM cards, global bodies warn that such a move could exclude vulnerable citizens and create underground markets for fraudulently registered SIM cards. Mobile industry veteran Johan van Graan is calling…
Sanlam’s Theo Mabaso Sanlam has appointed Theo Mabaso as group chief AI officer, giving artificial intelligence a dedicated seat on the financial services group’s executive committee. The move makes Sanlam one of the first major companies in South Africa to create such a role in the C-suite. Mabaso, who retains his existing role as group…
CJ Oosthuizen, Google Cloud and Workspace specialist, Argility Technology Group. AI – and shadow AI – are proliferating, creating a series of new risks for organisations. To gain control of who and what is accessing corporate data, organisations need unified control planes designed to shed light on the entire environment. This is according to CJ…
