Healthy half-year growth for public cloud services

Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $315,5-billion in the first half of 2023 (1H23) – an increase of 19,1% over the same period in 2022 – according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker....

AMD adds to Ryzen portfolio to advance the AI PC era

Looking to make its mark on the burgeoning AI market, AMD has released the latest processors in its Ryzen portfolio – the Ryzen 8040 Series – which are expected to be broadly available from leading OEMs in the first quarter of next year. With the...

IDC envisages an ‘AI Everywhere’ digital future for EMEA

IDC predicts that digital spending in the EMEA region will record a significant surge – growing at four times the rate of GDP in 2024 – a trend indicative of the seminal transformation currently reshaping the regional economy. This evolution marks the dawn...

Three priorities for CMOs in 2024

As CMOs focus on leading marketing through the next wave of disruption, Gartner says there are three priorities they must keep top of mind for 2024 – building AI-enabled marketing teams; recasting marketing’s value for an evolving enterprise; and...

This is what Saffers searched for in 2023

Google has released the South African results of its 2023 Year In Search trends, revealing the terms, people, topics, questions and events that captured the attention of the public in the past 12 months. This years’ results  show a heightened interest in celebrities,...
VMware by Broadcom simplifies lineup, switches to subscriptions

VMware by Broadcom simplifies lineup, switches to subscriptions

VMware by Broadcom announced a simplified product portfolio, while transitioning from a perpetual to a subscription model. Krish Prasad, senior vice-president and GM of the VMware Cloud Foundation Division, says that, in terms of product simplification, the VMware...