Jun 19, 2013
Research by the Department of Industrial Psychology at the North-West University has identified some of the factors that will not only attract Generation Y employees, but retain this talented and upwardly-mobile sector of the workforce. The survey highlighted five...
Jun 18, 2013
Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, is the world’s new number one system with a performance of 33,86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. This is according to the 41st edition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of the...
Jun 14, 2013
Claims that most organisations have moved, or are moving, to cloud e-mail or cloud office systems are not consistent with research by Gartner. Gartner estimates that there are currently about 50-million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only 8%...
Jun 13, 2013
The increasing tendency for employees to store their company information on cloud services and mobile devices does not only pose a cyber-security threat for businesses. Fragmentation of corporate data creates unnecessary cost, escalates risk and potentially undermines...
Jun 12, 2013
Fewer than 10% of today’s enterprises have a true information strategy. Research by Gartner has found that, just as business model thinking wasn’t mainstream or well-rehearsed a decade ago, management thinking at an “information as strategy” level is...
Jun 11, 2013
HP Discover, Las Vegas – The concept of a new “IT style” emerging in the industry, as opposed to an evolutionary step or a paradigm shift, was first mooted by HP at its PartnerWorld conference earlier this year. And during a press conference at HP...
