by Dianne Bayley | Nov 15, 2020 | Innovation
Verizon’s analysis of more than 32,000 security incidents and 3,950 breaches has revealed that the financial sector ranks fourth among all sectors in security incidents (1,509 incidents), and seventh in data breaches (448 breaches). In addition, these financial...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 13, 2020 | Innovation, Uncategorized
This year, open source will become even more fundamental to the success of companies as they transition to fully-fledged digitally-led businesses, writes Muggie van Staden, MD of Obsidian Systems. In the coming months, proprietary software will lose relevance as local...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 20, 2019 | Innovation
When NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter reached the red planet in September 1999, thousands of engineers and scientists anticipated major breakthroughs from the 338-kg robotic probe, which was due to gather, analyse and send valuable information back to Earth, writes Rodrigo...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 5, 2019 | Sustainability
Thanks to the arrival of Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa, it is expected that more born-in-the-cloud organisations will start taking root here, according to Dana Cinman, Product Specialist at Obsidian Systems. And with smaller companies now finding it...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 18, 2019 | Sustainability
One of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the promotion of lifelong learning. In the report ‘Preparing tomorrow’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ by Deloitte, the skills required for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are...
