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Complexity, not AI, is Africa's real IT challenge – Red Hat

Legacy infrastructure, rising costs and skills shortages top local concerns as global AI hype distracts from fundamentals, executives say.

Meta platforms contribute R16.5bn to SA's economy

A Meta-commissioned study estimates the company's platforms contribute R16.5 billion annually to SA's economy and support 910 000 SMEs.

Nkhensani Nkhwashu

Obsidian Systems

Obsidian Systems recognised as Red Hat Specialised Partner for Mission Critical Automation

The Mission Critical Automation specialisation recognises the company’s capability to support automation in environments where downtime, misconfiguration and inconsistency carry real business consequences.

Obsidian Systems

Portworx by Everpure makes data management native to Red Hat OpenShift

Simplify Kubernetes operations by managing storage, data protection and disaster recovery for AI workloads, containers and VMs directly within the Red Hat OpenShift console.

GSM Association

GSMA, Pleias seek to close African language gap in AI

The organisations release CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model that supports 61 African languages.

Nutanix makes play with agentic AI, bare-metal Kubernetes

The challenge with agentic AI is no longer choosing a model and building agents, but the complexity of managing the infrastructure to run thousands of agents securely.

Matthew Burbidge

Solid8 Technologies

Breaking silos with secure AI-driven data collaboration without risk

Companies must increasingly collaborate and draw insights from rapidly-growing data streams without sacrificing privacy or security.

OpenAI bets on Astral to strengthen AI coding

The ChatGPT maker is set to acquire open source developer Astral and integrate its tools into the Codex ecosystem.

First Distribution

First Distribution appointed as Canonical’s first Africa-focused Distributor

The partnership allows First Distribution to accelerate enterprise open source adoption, deliver certified Canonical Ubuntu solutions with local insight and provide enablement to partners.

First Distribution

Graduate programme launched to train ICT specialists

The programme aims to tackle the region’s shortage of skilled cloud, Linux and cyber security professionals.

The AI blueprint

Why your data foundation is the only thing that matters.

How attackers exploit malicious, vulnerable software libraries to launch stealth attacks

Companies must be capable of detecting malicious DLLs and vulnerabilities in software libraries to prevent early-stage compromise, says Andrzej Jarmolowicz, operations director at Cybershure.

White paper: From risk to resilience: Securing Kubernetes compliance

The white paper explores the evolving landscape of compliance for organisations that use Kubernetes.

Veeam Software South Africa