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  1. TCS+ | Cloud On Demand's Senzo Mbhele on the benefits of the AWS distribution model

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    TCS+ | Cloud On Demand's Senzo Mbhele on the benefits of the AWS distribution model

    When most people think of Amazon Web Services, they automatically assume they should go directly to AWS. However, for the diverse ecosystem of AWS partners – including managed service providers and independent software vendors – the real secret to achieving significant growth often lies in leveraging the distributor model. Consider this analogy: if AWS is a powerful cloud engine, then the reseller acts as the skilled driver. But who manages the complexities of operating the vehicle, such as maintenance, refuelling, training and necessary pit stops? That administrative heavy lifting falls to the distributor. In this episode of TCS+, Senzo Mbhele, MD at Cloud On Demand, explains the AWS distribution model and its advantages. Mbhele discusses: • The main business challenges that the AWS distribution model addresses; • How distributors create financial value and improve return on investment for others in the ecosystem, including end customers; • The support distribution partners provide to internal teams, enabling them to achieve more without the need to hire additional staff; • The expertise distributors offer to help chief information officers and chief technology officers manage risk, security and governance throughout their cloud journey; • Common misconceptions that may cause executives to hesitate before partnering with a distributor; and • Indicators that suggest it might be time for a business to consider the services of a distribution partner, along with the benefits this can bring. Don’t miss this engaging conversation! TechCentral

    51 мин.
  2. TCS | Takealot CEO Frederik Zietsman on township growth, EVs and the future of online retail

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    TCS | Takealot CEO Frederik Zietsman on township growth, EVs and the future of online retail

    E-commerce will soon reach an important milestone in South Africa: by January, according to World Wide Worx research, online shopping will top 10% of total retail sales for the first time. The move to 15% and then to 20% will come much quicker. That’s the view of Frederik Zietsman, CEO of Naspers-owned Takealot Group – South Africa’s largest online retailer – who was speaking to TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral Show. In the interview, Zietsman unpacks what’s driving the rapid adoption of online shopping in South Africa – Covid-19 was a key trigger – and what the future holds as international e-commerce giants step up their investments in the country. He also discusses: • How the competitive dynamics of the market have changed in recent years; • The impact of the entry of international giants such as Amazon and Walmart and how this will reshape the market in the coming years; • The decision to expand subsidiary Mr D’s focus from fast food to include new product categories; • The township opportunity and how Takealot is working to crack that market; • Takealot’s plans to move to electric vehicles in its logistics fleet, including a look at what’s needed to introduce electric motorbikes at scale; • The challenge of crime in the logistics chain and what’s being done to fight it; • Why Takealot is getting into the home loans business; and • What’s going to drive the company’s growth in the next few years. Don’t miss a fascinating conversation! TechCentral

    35 мин.
  3. TCS | Seacom 2.0: Alpheus Mangale unpacks all the details about the giant new subsea system

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    TCS | Seacom 2.0: Alpheus Mangale unpacks all the details about the giant new subsea system

    Seacom last week announced that it plans to build one of the highest-capacity subsea broadband cable systems the world has ever seen. Dubbed Seacom 2.0, the cable system – which will have an expected design capacity of a staggering 2 000Tbit/s – will be larger than the company’s original system, which brought high-speed connectivity to Africa’s eastern coastline when it was launched in 2009. The new system, which will include an “express route” from South Africa to Singapore and leg around South Africa to Lobito in Angola – and which will also cover much of the same East African coastline as the first system – will use the latest fibre-optic technology and 48 fibre pairs to deliver its extreme total capacity. Alpheus Mangale, CEO of Seacom, sat down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod for an exclusive first interview with the TechCentral Show to unpack the announcement and provide much greater detail about the deployment – including its timelines and the technology that will be used. In the interview, Mangale touches on a range of topics, including: • What’s involved in building a submarine cable system of this magnitude; • Why Seacom has chosen the routing for the cable that it has; • The need for great redundancy around the African continent, and how this fed into Seacom’s planning for Seacom 2.0; • The commercial model for the new system and what this means for the region; • The assumptions Seacom is making about future internet demand and how that feeds into its return-on-investment forecasts; • How the system will be funded and who is backing it; • The risks inherent in building telecommunications infrastructure at this scale; and • The terrestrial infrastructure that will be deployed to support Seacom 2.0, including landing stations and edge data centres. Don’t miss a fascinating interview! TechCentral

    44 мин.
  4. TCS | PayInc CEO Stephen Linnell on South Africa's payments revolution

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    TCS | PayInc CEO Stephen Linnell on South Africa's payments revolution

    South Africa’s payments ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. PayInc – previously BankservAfrica – sits at the core of the country’s payments infrastructure. As the builder and manager of the PayShap instant payment rails, PayInc is central to the Reserve Bank’s plans to drive digital inclusion through payment modernisation. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, Stephen Linnell, CEO of PayInc, tells TechCentral’s Nkosinathi Ndlovu about the strategy behind the rebrand to PayInc and how that fits into the utility’s vision of the payments ecosystem in South Africa and the broader Southern Africa region. Linnell delves into: • PayInc’s new ownership structure with the Reserve Bank taking over 50% ownership from the private banks; • How the Reserve Bank’s participation will help PayInc achieve its goals; • An assessment of PayShap since its 2023 launch and what comes next; • What the proposed inclusion of non-bank players including fintechs, retailers and telecommunications operators in the national payments and settlements system means for the economy; • The efforts PayInc is making to implement instant payments at a regional level; and • Emerging payment technologies like central bank digital currencies and stablecoins. Don’t miss this informative discussion. TechCentral

    25 мин.
  5. TCS+ | LSD Open: why repatriating from the cloud can be a costly mistake

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    TCS+ | LSD Open: why repatriating from the cloud can be a costly mistake

    Not every organisation that has migrated to the cloud has reaped the rewards promised in terms of faster development and deployment cycles, simplified infrastructure management, and most importantly, a reduction in costs. Some are going as far as repatriating their infrastructure back into on-premises environments, perhaps because they understand it better and they find they can more reliably predict their costs there. Deon Stroebel, chief innovation officer at cloud computing specialist LSD Open, argues against this move, saying that issues relating to cost and efficiency are better solved in the cloud than outside of it. In this episode of TCS+, Stroebel delves into: • The biggest mistakes companies make after migrating into the cloud; • The real difference between just running an application on the cloud versus building it in a truly cloud-native way; • The mindset shift that comes with cloud adoption and why on-premises thinking should not be applied in a cloud environment; • How containerisation and DevOps help businesses make their cloud deployments more efficient; • The cost and performance benefits of modernised cloud infrastructure; • How to use observability tools to monitor cloud usage; and • How ensuring their cloud environments prepare businesses to adopt new technologies like AI quickly. This conversation is not to be missed! TechCentral

    21 мин.
  6. TCS | From lockdown idea to global player: The Invigilator bags $11-million funding

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    TCS | From lockdown idea to global player: The Invigilator bags $11-million funding

    The Invigilator, the developer of a South African application that helps educational institutions monitor web-based assessments to prevent cheating, recenty secured US$11-million (R195-million) in funding to help it expand internationally. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, Nicolas Riemer, co-founder and CEO of The Invigilator, joins TechCentral’s Nkosinathi Ndlovu to discuss how the start-up is going to use the cash injection to take on international markets. He also gives insight into the app’s software and the company behind it. In this episode, Riemer delves into: • How The Invigilator app got started during the Covid-19 lockdown; • The markets it plans to expand into internationally; • The challenges of developing an app like The Invigilator in the South African market and why this may have set the company up for international success; • How the app uses AI to minimise network and storage demands while improving outcomes; • Barriers to The Invigilator’s adoption, like resistance from students, and how they were overcome; and • The future technologies Riemer is most excited about in the ed-tech space. Don’t miss the conversation! TechCentral

    35 мин.
  7. TCS + | HP’s AI future - how on-device intelligence is redefining work in Africa

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    TCS + | HP’s AI future - how on-device intelligence is redefining work in Africa

    AI has advanced at breakneck speed in the last few years, with most knowledge workers using the technology to enhance their work in some shape or form. Most of this computing has been happening in the cloud. However, the advent of the neural processing unit, or NPU, has made it possible to move AI computation to the edge, which not only improves speeds but also protects personal and company data. In this episode of TechCentral’s TCS+, we were on location at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton where HP recently hosted its 2025 Future of Work event. The event brings together industry leaders, decision-makers and innovators and explores the evolving landscape of work in the age of artificial intelligence. Ertug Ayik, vice president and MD for Middle East and Africa at HP, connects the dots between the company’s new AI-infused product line and broader concepts shaping the way in which work is being done. Ayik delves into: • HP’s shift from a product focused company to a solutions and services outfit; • Why on-device AI processing capability has become a priority for HP; • The advantages on-device AI have for performance, security and power efficiency; • HP’s strategy for South Africa and the African continent; • Key initiatives HP is driving across Africa; and • What to expect from HP in the coming years. Don’t miss the conversation! TechCentral

    27 мин.
  8. TCS | Barney Harmse on building Paratus Group – and working with Starlink

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    TCS | Barney Harmse on building Paratus Group – and working with Starlink

    Paratus Group executive chairman Barney Harmse joins the TechCentral Show to share the story of the telecommunications group’s rise from small beginnings in Angola and Namibia more than 20 years ago and how it became one of Southern Africa’s biggest ICT infrastructure players. Paratus started life in Angola in 2003, evolving from a local internet service provider into a pan‑African telecoms powerhouse. Co-founded by Harmse with Schalk Erasmus, Rolf Mendelsohn, Martin Boese and Miles October, it grew rapidly and now has infrastructure across the region, including in Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, the DRC and Namibia. This week, it officially launched the first privately owned mobile network operator in Namibia, which will compete directly with the state-owned incumbents. Today the business works closely with the likes of Starlink, Google and Meta Platforms and plays a significant role in long-distance, metropolitan and access networks across the region. It also helped land Google’s Equiano cable on the Namibian coast. In this lively interview with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod, Harmse unpacks the Paratus story, touching on: • What building telecoms infrastructure across the vast reaches of Southern Africa has entailed, including memorable moments along the way; • The company’s financial backers, and its capital-raising plans – including a possible future listing in New York; • Why it built a network of long-distance fibre across Southern Africa; • Paratus’s relationship with Elon Musk’s Starlink, and why it’s a key role player in the launch of the low-Earth orbit satellite provider’s offering across the region; • The launch of the mobile network in Namibia and why it’s a significant development in the Paratus story; and • The opportunities still ahead for Paratus Group. Don’t miss a great interview! TechCentral

    57 мин.
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