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By President Ntuli, Managing Director, HPE South Africa  I was excited to learn from a recent BCG survey how many South Africans are open to exploring the benefits of AI, with almost a third of those who are aware of the technology already using it. It’s encouraging to know that across the country, there’s significant curiosity and enthusiasm for AI. And with the government taking key steps in the right direction and inviting feedback from industry experts on its new National AI Policy Framework, we have a great opportunity to help shape the country’s AI development. The challenge, for stakeholders across industries, is to come together to make AI easier to use and quicker to adopt. This way, we can fast-track a shift in our transformation trajectory, altering our course from where we are now to where AI is moving in the future. For AI innovation in South Africa to be meaningful, it must drive considerable economic growth. With analysts predicting that the technology could expand A...

Building on its heritage and reputation as a market leader in print innovation, today, Canon launches the imageFORCE C7165, a multifunction printer which is powered by Canon’s newly developed imageFORCE technology platform.  Designed to meet the ever-evolving expectations of organisations in today’s modern workspace, imageFORCE harnesses innovations such as Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support new levels of security, reliability, and quality for businesses. Yenayena Ngidi, Product Manager for Workspace said: “In today’s rapidly changing business world, organisations must embrace the latest technologies to boost growth, perform better and improve the working experience of their employees. With major advancements disrupting ways of working – including cloud computing, and AI – organisations are looking to embrace innovation to drive new levels of productivity. As a result of these trends, and in line with the continual evolution of our portfolio to meet business n...

 Despite firm belief in AI plans, businesses’ fragmented AI strategies and execution that overlook end-to-end lifecycles will not deliver successful outcomes Organisations are failing to understand the compute and networking demands across the end-to-end AI life cycle, with fewer than half of IT leaders admitted to having a full understanding of what the demands of the various AI workloads across training, tuning and inferencing might be. While data management was labelled as one of the most critical elements for AI success, only 7% of organisations can run real-time data pushes/pulls and just 26% have set up data governance models and can run advanced analytics. Many businesses are adopting siloed approaches, with only 57% setting one single consolidated strategy. Despite the integral role of legal and compliance functions, 22% of IT leaders aren’t involving legal teams in their business’s AI strategy conversations at all. In a research report commissioned by Hewlett Packard Enter...

Developing the Galaxy S24 series has been the most rewarding period of my career. As an engineer, I have witnessed many examples of incredible innovations, but AI is the most transformative technology of the century. Few engineers get the chance to be involved in something with such seismic potential. It brings great change, not only for Samsung and the mobile industry but for all humankind.   When integrated into phones, AI is, to put it simply, a revolution. This is a new era for mobile experiences and Samsung Galaxy has a leading role to play in it. Mobile devices will become the primary access point for AI, and Samsung Galaxy — with our broad and comprehensive product portfolio, heritage of innovation and philosophy of open collaboration — is in a great position to accelerate its global expansion. We will make mobile AI easy to access and ignite new possibilities for all.     Opening Up New Possibilities As we pioneer groundbreaking experiences in mobile AI, we’ve tho...

  It’s a national election year in South Africa, as well as for many countries around the world. This time round, we are about to witness how generative AI will impact the run up to voting day. Zaheer Ebrahim, Solutions Architect at Trend Micro MEA, gives some insight into how this new technology will better support bad actors and how to lookout for what’s real and what’s fake.   There are over 60 countries hosting elections this year, with some 20 elections taking place in Africa. And while South Africa awaits the election date announcement, campaigning by political parties will progressively become more intense with artificial intelligence (AI) expected to play a major role.    It’s predicted that the recent advancements in generative AI will make it harder for people to spot the difference between fake news and misleading information. The World Economic Forum has even declared misinformation powered by generative AI as a  top risk  facing the world in 20...

Galaxy AI (artificial intelligence) is officially here and Samsung has set up a Galaxy experience space for consumers to see all its capabilities in action. The Samsung Galaxy S24 Studio gives Samsung fans a glimpse of the mobile powerhouse that is the new Galaxy S24 series, and the amazing things users can do with the devices. Besides getting to see, touch and feel the devices, guests get a live demonstration of some of their features.   The new Samsung Galaxy S24 series presents a trio of Ai-powered smartphones that impress with their sleek design and futuristic functionality.  Among other top  features that consumers will get acquainted with at the studio are the revolutionary Circle to Search with Google, which has ushered in a new fast, easy and expansive way to search for things on the internet, Live Translate, which breaks down language barriers by translating foreign languages in real time and Galaxy AI editing tools that enable you to recompose and remaster photo...

Author: Mandy Duncan, HPE Aruba Networking Country Manager, South Africa With Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations dominating the news, you’ve likely already heard how AI for IT Operations (AIOps) is set to revolutionise almost everything. Like many other local business leaders, you probably have high expectations of the benefits AI will bring to your IT department. Indeed, almost 50% of South African organisations say this is the most important area where they expect to see performance improvements. Not surprisingly, for most, elevated customer experience is the top anticipated outcome.   To benefit even further from advances in AI, the next thing that should be on your radar is something called AI Networking, which will be particularly relevant if you’re responsible for wireless, wired, and wide area networks (WAN).   Before we explore this new facet of AI innovation, let’s take a step back. Reviewing a few definitions will help you better understand the key characteris...

The AI future we’ve long been promised is now within reach. Literally. It’s AI that tags along throughout your workday. On your commute to the office, it suggests an eloquent response to your boss’s email. In the afternoon, it live translates a call with your global team and provides a summary and transcript immediately after. At night, it helps you archive all the resources and materials you gathered during another dizzying day of multitasking — in seconds.   For all the talk about AI transforming work, the game changer for the workforce is AI that goes everywhere you go. In other words, AI that’s as mobile as your mobile device.   Enter Galaxy S24, the first AI-powered phone.   With Galaxy S24, Samsung is harnessing AI to deliver new dimensions of personal convenience, productivity, and communication into our daily lives. The impact will be profound in the world of work, where being productive on the go has become part of the job.   Here’s how severa...