Enterprise ODM direct infrastructure market value passes $21bn

Worldwide revenues for hyperscale infrastructure (servers and storage) sold by original design manufacturers (ODMs) directly to cloud service providers surpassed $21-billion in 2019. According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) report, “Worldwide ODM...

Global Esports Federation joins ITU to launch esports dialogue

The Global Esports Federation (GEF) has become a member of ITU’s standardisation arm (ITU-T) to launch a global dialogue on the new partnerships emerging in support of the fast-growing competitive esports industry. The dialogue aims to create the conditions...

Covid-19 and its effect on industrial printers

The new Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker from International Data Corporation’s (IDC) shows industrial printer and large format printer shipments declined in Q1 2020. “While shipments and revenues have declined in the large format printer...
Say hello to the newest cosmic baby …

Say hello to the newest cosmic baby …

Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of years ago, and objects that have been around for just as long. That’s partly why the recently discovered neutron...

Is this the death of the office as we know it?

Kathy Gibson reports from a Nutanix webinar – The word work has transitioned from being a noun to a verb. Work is no long a place people go, but is the thing people do. This happened almost unconsciously, says Professor Herman Singh, CEO of Future Advisory. The office...
No let-up for mobile growth in Africa

No let-up for mobile growth in Africa

Mobile data traffic in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to grow by 12-times the current figures, with total traffic increasing from 0,33 exabytes (Eb) per month to 4Eb by 2025. Meanwhile, average traffic per smartphone is expected to reach 7,1Gb over the forecast...