The agentic commerce era is here — but how much does it matter? The short answer: enormously, and more so every day. McKinsey has estimated that five years from now, agentic commerce — meaning AI agents acting autonomously on behalf of consumers to search, compare and buy across platforms — could account for $1 trillion…
Buzzwords like strategic, outcome-driven and experiment have become second nature in modern organizations. Terms meant to imply sophistication, momentum and signpost modern leadership are now diluted jargon. In my experience, when everything is important and strategic, nothing is urgent and little gets done. And when language lacks clarity, expectations become ambiguous, next steps become uncertain…
Without proper controls, AI agents can cost more than what outputs are worth according to Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya, two IT experts and cohosts of popular podcast, All In podcast. During a recent episode, long-time tech investor Calacanis noted that agent costs quickly rose to $300 a day while using the Claude API at one…
Counterfeit tobacco sales account for as much as 75% of South Africa’s total market. And while Mary Mahuma, CIO for Southern Africa PMI, admits that the challenge facing the business is significant, she finds solutions by tackling the root cause of the issue: customer insights. According to her, other FMCG brands also struggle to clearly understand…
For years, cloud strategy rewarded standardization. Treat everything as a workload, abstract the differences, optimize for scale and cost. That mindset helped enterprises modernize faster than any previous infrastructure shift. Applying that same mindset to AI is one of the most consequential architectural mistakes I see senior IT leaders make. In executive rooms, the logic…
Geopolitical risk, cyber threats and outages are driving a rethink of how we build, run and protect the infrastructure powering the economy, argues Mark Hile, Datacom MD, Infrastructure Products. As someone entrusted with overseeing infrastructure products for a company that acts as a tech partner to hundreds of Australian organisations, both enterprise and government, the…
Data centres power New Zealand’s digital economy, enabling cloud, AI and critical services. With billions in investment ahead, collaboration and sustainable infrastructure are key to long-term growth. The backbone of our digital economy Every business-critical system – from banking platforms to supply chains, financial transactions to enterprise applications – relies on data centres. Data centres are the unseen engine rooms:…
For more than a decade, the Fulton Hogan team has trusted Datacom and its data centres with their mission-critical equipment – the result is an enduring partnership and a high level of trust. The Fulton Hogan logo can be seen adorning equipment on construction sites all over Australasia where the company, founded in Dunedin in…
For years, the enterprise endpoint was treated as a commodity: a device to deploy, patch, and eventually replace. The real innovation was expected to happen in the data center or the cloud. That assumption is changing. In today’s distributed environments, endpoints have become a critical part of the digital workspace architecture. It is where users…
IBM and Arm have announced a plan to develop hardware that can run both IBM and Arm-based workloads, to let Arm software run on IBM mainframes. The two companies plan to work on three things: building virtualization tools so Arm software can run on IBM platforms; making sure Arm applications meet the security and data…