Shana Maré, Territory Manager at Hitachi Vantara. Trusted, quality data and resilient data infrastructure are the foundations of financial services innovation in the AI era. The future of banking will be defined by an institution’s ability to transform data into a strategic asset while maintaining resilience, compliance and customer trust. This is according to Shana…
ETS Prime Cloud provides local data residency, high-performance infrastructure and secure hosting. (Image source: 123RF) Businesses today are facing pressure from multiple areas. Notably, compliance challenges relating to local laws – like POPIA – and issues around data sovereignty impact on many organisations’ decisions about when or whether to move to the cloud. While enterprises…
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…
Nvidia’s B300 GPU South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg. The stack will be up within three months….
The World Health Organization has launched a regional health data platform designed to give African governments a single system for tracking health trends, planning services and responding to disease outbreaks. The Regional Health Data Hub was unveiled on August 27 in Addis Ababa during the WHO Regional Committee for Africa meeting. The platform will bring…
SA’s data centres face growing scrutiny over their environmental footprint. (Image created via Gemini) South Africa’s major data centre operators are pushing back against concerns their rapid expansion is placing unsustainable pressure on the country’s limited electricity and water resources, pointing to their renewable energy and tighter resource management initiatives. This comes as the sector…
They spoke at the sixth African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD VI), organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) in Nairobi, Kenya. . African countries need better systems for tracking public debt and stronger parliamentary scrutiny of government borrowing, said some development experts said on Wednesday. They spoke at…
MTN Group is targeting 150MW of capacity in a first phase spanning South Africa and Nigeria, group CEO Ralph Mupita told a media roundtable on Tuesday. The group will hold only a minority stake in the UAE-backed data-centre venture behind it, he said. The comments put hard numbers to a deal MTN described only in…
The pressure is familiar by now. The announcements are everywhere, the board has seen them, and somewhere on your desk is a proposal to enable Microsoft Copilot across the organisation. Perhaps the licences are already bought. The question has narrowed to how fast. Here is the part that gets lost in the rush. Copilot is…
Republicans are sprinting to get in line with voter skepticism on data centers as they emerge as a top midterms issue. The immigrant father of a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was detained by immigration authorities, his family says. And why Trump is trying to entice Kim Jong Un into meeting. Here’s what to…
