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...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Sustainability
Given the importance of data in today’s connected business environment, organisations have no choice but to embrace a more effective data management plan (DMP) as the means to empower them to make better decisions. Sherrine Green-Thompson, SmarterData Area Lead at...
by Dianne Bayley | May 29, 2019 | Innovation
What’s the definition of a successful DevOps practice? Is it purely the velocity and volume of the software packages delivered? The efficiency and cost-effectiveness? The bottom-line numbers about the business value derived from the software the team produces? Well...