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Bank Zero's Lezanne Human on disrupting banking in South Africa
Bank Zero is a new digital bank backed by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan and launching in South Africa soon with a technology-led approach to financial services and low to zero fees. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke to the bank's co-founder and executive director Lezanne Human about Bank Zero's launch…
Microsoft's Panos Panay on building Surface, and the future of the PC
Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay is enthused about the future of the personal computer, arguing that PCs have never been more important as the world navigates the Covid-19 pandemic. In this exclusive South African interview with Panay, TechCentral talks to the man behind Microsoft's push into PC hardware in…
NAPAfrica's Andrew Owens on explosive Internet growth under lockdown
NAPAfrica, the Internet exchange point (IXP) operated by data centre operator Teraco, has seen a 50% spike in peak traffic volumes in the past five months to 1.5Tbit/s, driven by the lockdown and work-from-home measures. In this episode of the podcast, Teraco technical lead for interconnection and peering Andrew Owens…
Siyabonga Mahlangu on why Telkom is taking on Vodacom and Rain
Telkom dropped a bombshell on South Africa's telecommunications industry this week when it said it was approaching the Competition Commission to object to Vodacom's roaming agreements with Rain. But why? In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Telkom group executive for regulatory affairs and government relations Siyabonga Mahlangu explains why…
Atvance Intellect's Brendon Ambrose on data privacy and the law [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by Brendon Ambrose, GM for data privacy, at technology company Atvance Intellect. In the podcast, Ambrose focuses specifically on the data privacy side of Atvance Intellect's business and what companies need to know about new legislation and regulations governing the protection…
Introstat's William du Preez on the benefits of a managed print services partner [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, Introstat executive sales manager William du Preez talks about the benefits of businesses signing up with a managed print services partner. He talks about how doing so can save companies significant costs and improve their efficiency. Introstat was founded in 1989 and has about…
South Africa’s new sockets and plugs: Everything you need to know
South Africa has a new standard for electrical sockets and plugs. Known as SANS 164-2, the standard, developed by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), replaces SANS 164-1 (the large, three-pin plugs used in the country for decades). In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by Gianfranco…
Unpacking BBD's MServ cloud management solution [promoted]
As the cloud continues to become a standard workplace technology for companies across all sectors, internal IT departments may struggle to effectively monitor and maintain an effective cloud environment. To alleviate this, BBD has launched a new, specialised cloud management service called MServ to help companies manage their cloud setups…
Ellies bets big on home solar as it eyes turnaround
Ellies Holdings is a 41-year-old JSE-listed company whose products, from television aerials to electrical cables and LED lighting, are well known to most South Africans. What many people don't know is the company has been through enormous difficulty in recent years -- to the extent that its auditors raised a…
South Africa's spectrum ITA, unpacked by top experts
In this special edition of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to three top industry experts to unpack communications regulator Icasa’s invitations to apply for broadband spectrum and for the wholesale open-access network (Woan). McLeod is joined by Steve Song, Kerron Edmunson and Mortimer Hope to discuss the ITAs in…
DFA's Vino Govender on doing digital transformation right [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Dark Fibre Africa executive for strategy, mergers & acquisitions Vino Govender about the digital transformation project the company embarked on and the lessons learnt. Govender shares DFA's approach to digital transformation, why it made customer experience the centre of its strategy,…
South African digital bank Bettr nears launch: An interview with the founders
South Africa will soon have a new "digital bank" in the form of Bettr, a fintech start-up that has been working on building a "new challenger" in the country's finance sector that promises to offer a "better alternative". In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral's Duncan McLeod interviews Bettr co-founders…
How IT can help smaller enterprises thrive beyond lockdown [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Deshan Moodley and Pinnacle’s Jeremy Lichtenstein unpack the impact of the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on mid-sized enterprises, and the small and medium business sector, and the role IT solutions can play in the recovery. While the…
4Sight Holdings' Willie Ackerman on Covid as digital accelerant [promoted]
In this episode of the podcast, Willie Ackerman, chief sales and marketing officer at JSE-listed 4Sight Holdings, talks about how the Covid-19 lockdown has dramatically accelerated digital transformation. Ackerman believes the world is already moving on from so-called "fourth Industrial Revolution" technologies to what he calls Enterprise 5.0. What is…
Johann Els on running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on SAP [promoted]
SUSE South Africa open-source specialist Johann Els joins the podcast for a discussion on why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) makes SAP enterprise applications faster and more responsive, and how this can save companies money through reliability uptime and live patching. Els provides a brief introduction to SUSE, offers an…
Bob Skinstad on life after pro-rugby and investing in tech
Bob Skinstad on life after pro-rugby and investing in tech In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews former Springbok rugby captain Bob Skinstad. Skinstad, who now lives in London, talks about the career he's been building since retiring from professional rugby and his partnership with Knife Capital and…
Absa Group CIO Wilhelm Krige on the big Barclays de-merger
In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Absa Group CIO Wilhelm Krige about the mammoth project, now mostly completed, of separating the banking giant's IT systems from former parent Barclays. The total cost of the separation amounted to R17.5-billion, with Barclays paying R12.6-billion to help fund it. Much of this spend…
DataProphet CEO Frans Cronje on AI firm's R100m funding round
Frans Cronje, co-founder and CEO of Cape Town-based artificial intelligence firm DataProphet joins the TechCentral podcast to unpack the big fundraising round it announced last week with Knife Capital. The investment round, which also includes funding from the Industrial Development Corp and Norican Group, came to US$6-million (about R100-million) and…
The fascinating story behind Nedbank Money App Lite [promoted]
Nedbank has made big strides with Nedbank Money App Lite, a smaller, less resource-intensive version of its banking app that's built as "progressive Web application". In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Tawanda Chatikobo, Nedbank's head of digital channels, to learn more about how the Covid-19 pandemic, and…
Revix CEO Sean Sanders on the future of crypto investment
Revix co-founder and CEO Sean Sanders joins TechCentral for a discussion on cryptocurrencies as an investment class and why current world events are underpinning the renewed boom in bitcoin and other cryptos. In the podcast, Sanders explains why he thinks cryptocurrencies - and gold - are booming in 2020 and…