Wits University is developing a processing board for use at the Large Hadron Collider that it hopes to commercialise for wider application.
Predictive analytics gives organisations the ability to look into the future. Little wonder, then, that so many CIOs endorse these kinds of solutions for the strategic and competitive advantages they offer.
How critical or relevant is research from the big international ICT research houses for South Africa's CIOs and other technology leaders?
David de Villiers, who heads up a mobile payments company and is launching Zapper, says he moved heaven and earth to get his hands on Google Glass.
In an oversubscribed world of mobile service provision, Green Connect is a local startup that has found its calling in catering for the forgotten market.
South African enterprises are holding back from heading to the cloud or outsourcing their data centres because they're trying to extract return on their investments in existing infrastructure.
Energy-efficient hardware, converged infrastructure and better management tools are just some of the approaches South African data centres are using to reduce operational costs.
South African enterprises may reap indirect benefit from the Open Compute Project - eventually.
The evolution of IT has seen CIOs elevated beyond the nuts and bolts to take up a bird's eye view position that demands a new mindset and skills.
Want to scare and confuse a business executive? Mention POPI.
IT service management is as much about managing relationships and expectations as it is about what the end-user experiences.
Today, Evernote is the go-to tool for collaboration and research. Now it hopes to ride the wave of Africa's looming internet boom.