At a time when visionary leadership is needed, most South African CIOs are stuck between two eras - the industrialisation of yesteryear and the digitalisation of tomorrow. It's a transition that key IT industry also finds difficult to keep pace with, and there will be blood.

Cape-Town-based safari company Discover Africa is using a Web application built on Google Maps to let travellers track the spectacular wildebeest migration.

Traffic Freeflow streamlines the allocation of pointsmen on SA's roads and saves time and money with a simple smartphone app.

Fast-rising RainFin is tapping social data to shake up the local banking market and grab a slice of the lucrative loans business.

Are online resourcing platforms like Elance forever changing the nature of knowledge work?

Cloud service brokers promise one throat to choke and a unified delivery of cloud services. Is there room for them in SA?

Like any other risk, managing enterprise risk has a lot to do with how you tackle it.

Eighty percent of South Africa's information officers are dinosaurs, and Gartner's nexus of forces is the meteor.

Telkom's vision for the future is one of fibre optics, connected homes, triple-play and seamless fixed and mobile convergence. Just how practical is all of this?

Nedbank saves R100 million and consolidates its physical server infrastructure by 85 percent through virtualisation.

Old enterprise storage paradigms are giving way to cloud services and converged systems.

SA's new split ICT ministry has left the sector with more questions than answers.

Dr Sibusiso Sibisi has been fascinated by science and technology since childhood. Being CEO of the CSIR and his appointment to the new National Broadband Advisory Council are icing on the ambition cake.