VALR.com, a new crypto-currency trading platform based in SA, kicks off by allowing trading in crypto free of charge this month.

Ask any company, and they'll probably tell you that customer experience is one of their key focus areas. But ask them who's in charge of the customer experience, and the responses will be mumbled.

The datacentre is the foundation upon which enterprises are built.

Most new ideas in the enterprise don't see the light of day. So what goes wrong? We chat to the man in charge of Oracle's innovation programme.

Oracle's cloud business VP discusses the company's second cloud generation and the advantages of Autonomous Database.

Is this going to be the year in which the CIO nudges the business in a new direction?

It's impossible to think of the world without software. It's foundational to almost every business, and, increasingly, our personal lives.

It takes a successful CIO to know one. Financial Sector Conduct Authority CIO Sello Mmakau lists the qualities that make these executives stand out.

It's the concept of the digital twin writ large: not an engine, but the whole organisation.

The real business benefits of blockchain are hard to prove, as many embark on "pointless proof-of-concepts", says a Gartner analyst.

Gartner says the owners of data are also accountable for its security.

Peter Sondergaard, for many the face of Gartner, has left the company.