As cloud costs and security risk rise, with latency and connectivity concerns across Africa, HP’s Yesh Surjoodeen explains how AI PCs provide edge computing infrastructure.
Government plans AI-powered disease management, alongside investment in sovereign cloud and digital infrastructure.
Data location and governance have become strategic business considerations, influencing organisational trust, resilience and competitiveness, says Shanaaz Moosa, sales director for public sector and cyber security at OpenText.
Experts at the ITWeb AI Summit 2026 warn that retrofitting trust into deployed models is a costly failure.
Fresh from its March rebrand, TrendAI says it will double South African investment this year, expand local data centre capacity and use the country as a base for wider African growth.
GOLE Cloud is engineered on H3C’s high‑availability, multi‑tenant cloud architecture.
The survey reveals that AI is driving rapid container adoption, while shadow IT and organisational silos create AI risks.
Governance and compliance in the cloud should be an ongoing assurance activity with continuous visibility and governance, says Muzi Langa, MD of ManTK IT Solution.
South Africa can’t have its data controlled by everybody, anywhere in the world, says minister Blade Nzimande.
For Africa to benefit from AI, it depends on role players like the African Union taking the lead and fostering collaboration, says HPE SA MD President Ntuli.
Data sovereignty is a strategic imperative that will determine Africa’s ability to shape its digital future, says Tunde Abagun, sales lead, West, East, Central Africa at Nutanix.
When governments lead with a clear AI vision, they build public trust and show that AI is here to serve – not replace – people, says Mohammed Amin, senior VP, CEEMETA at Dell Technologies.
Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Mondli Gungubele on cloud-technology
Communications and digital technologies minister, Mondli Gungubele, says government cloud adoption is no longer an “if” issue, but how soon the state can completely migrate to cloud. #newsvideo #aws #Cloud