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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...

Imagine you’ve spent the past few years dining regularly at restaurants. The management of your household budget will probably have been a challenge without the ability to predict or control your monthly food expenses. It’s likely that if you suddenly feel the need to tighten up on costs, you’ll rather opt to dine at home, where you have the option to buy your groceries in bulk and better control spending.   In much the same way, a shift back to the private cloud is helping CIOs better manage their budgets by avoiding unforeseeable costs. In fact, research shows that moving the right workloads to the private cloud delivers median cost savings of 50%. And with South Africa’s economic growth expectations for 2024 sitting at just 1%, it’s safe to say cloud repatriation will be a definitive trend in the year ahead. Local CIOs will no doubt be under strict instruction from their board of directors to keep IT costs predictable and as a result will be looking for greater ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that President Ntuli has been appointed to the role of Board and Managing Director for South Africa with immediate effect.   President assumes full responsibility for the end-to-end management of HPE’s South African business, people, and operations. President assumes the role of South Africa Managing Director after two years as Director of HPE GreenLake Cloud Services across the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa region. Sandile Dube, previously country sales lead for HPE South Africa, has taken an opportunity outside of HPE.   Based at HPE’s office in Johannesburg, President leads an organisation with more than 150 team members spread across Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Looking to leverage his knowledge and skills from the region to drive growth in South Africa, President is particularly focused on cloud and digital transformation. This appointment reaffirms and solidifies HPE’s commitment to the country. ...