Google bridges the gap between cloud infrastructure teams and the SOC. (Image source: iStock) Digicloud Africa, Google’s enablement partner in Africa and the exclusive distributor of Google Security Operations (SecOps) across Africa, is actively recruiting new partners to take advantage of the ‘massive’ Google SecOps opportunity. Chris Richardson, Head of Cloud Strategy at Digicloud Africa,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Kylie Cooper/Reuters OpenAI has denied Apple’s allegations of trade secret theft, saying the iPhone maker failed to show any confidential information was stolen by former employees. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,” OpenAI said in a filing late on Monday…
Bidders for the Home Affairs revenue administration system must plan and price for a larger, two‑tier footprint of 275 fixed sites and 230 mobile units. It a good week for the hardware sector on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, as several large public sector institutions look to address equipment requirements. The Department of Home Affairs takes…
Eskom group chief financial officer Calib Cassim Eskom reported R4.9-billion of irregular expenditure for the year to 31 March 2026, less than half the restated figure for the year before. But read further into the auditor’s report and a different number appears. During the year, Eskom confirmed irregular expenditure of R36.8-billion relating to prior years….
Mamor Capital Veutres co-founder and CFO Fuzlin Levy-Hassen, and founder and CEO Mamokete Ramathe. Mamor Capital Ventures has secured a R300 million first close for its inaugural fund, giving the black women-owned venture capital (VC) firm capital to begin investing in post-revenue South African technology businesses. According to a statement, the firm is continuing to…
Eskom reported a R30.3-billion profit for the year to 31 March, but a larger sum than that never reached the income statement at all. Outgoing group chief financial officer Calib Cassim set out the arithmetic at Monday’s results presentation. Eskom, he said, lost 13.1TWh of electricity to theft during the year – power that was…
Advocate Pansy Tlakula, chairperson of the Information Regulator. (Photograph by Strike A Pose Studio) The Information Regulator (InfoReg) has, to date, received over 8 000 security compromise (data breach)incident reports, with 1 220 reported from April. This, as South Africa continues to experience an increasingly hostile cyber security environment, with data breaches and cyber attacks…
LSD Open, a cloud-native and AI systems integration specialist, has achieved Red Hat Specialized Partner status for Mission Critical Automation, joining a small group of Red Hat partners worldwide that hold the designation. The status validates LSD Open’s ability to architect and deploy automated workflows using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Automation has moved from…
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a proven, trusted global provider of end-to-end, mission-critical enterprise software support, managed services and innovative Agentic AI ERP solutions, and is the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. The Company has signed thousands of IT service contracts with Fortune Global 100,…
The Huawei logo at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2026. Go Nakamura/Reuters China’s Huawei Technologies reported a 36% plunge in first-half net profit on Monday as soaring input costs and heavier spending on research and development outweighed revenue growth. The Shenzhen-based tech and telecoms giant said net profit for January to…
