SA businesses follow a cloud smart strategy

SA businesses follow a cloud smart strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore – As multi-cloud and cloud smart strategies become the de facto choice for organisations around the globe, VMware reports encouraging growth in South Africa. And, despite the uncertainty of the Broadcom acquisition in the...

Data sovereignty a key concern as cloud accelerates

Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore – As organisations move more of their mission-critical workloads to the cloud, the issue of data sovereignty and privacy is becoming more relevant than ever. To address concerns, VMware launched its Sovereign Cloud...

E-commerce poised to capture 41% of global retail sales

With Black Friday on the horizon it is as good a time as any to explore retail trends – and the Boston Consulting Group has just released new research exploring e-commerce trends from the beginning of the pandemic to the present. After tremendous acceleration...

A day without the Internet would cost $43bn

The Internet has become such an integral part of our daily lives that we often do not even think about how much we rely on it. But if the Internet were to go down globally for even just a single day, the economic impact would be enormous. Such interruption of online...

Digital payments to become a $10trn industry

Over the past five years, more than 1,6-billion people worldwide have embraced digital payments, pushing the total user count in this market to a whopping 4,44-billion – or more than half the world`s population. This massive user base has helped the total...

AI, HPC and quantum technologies synergise to advance innovation

The integration of high-performance computing (HPC) systems with artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, ushering in a new era of innovation, says GlobalData, adding that this fusion is not merely about speed, but about smarter, data-driven...