Cloud on an unrelenting growth streak

The worldwide cloud infrastructure services market reached a record high in Q4 2019, as spending grew 37% to over $30-billion. Amazon Web Services (AWS) remained the dominant cloud service provider in Q4 2019, accounting for 32% of total spend. Microsoft Azure...

Europe’s hard copy sales worse than expected

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 8,2% in unit terms in 4Q19 compared with the same period a year ago, to give a market size of 5,09-million units. This meant the...

New chairman for EOH

Andrew Mthembu has been appointed as the new chairman of the EOH Group, effective 6 February 2020, to replace the late Dr Xolani Mkhwanazi. Mthembu joined the EOH board in June 2019, was appointed the lead independent director last year and led the board in the...

SA companies embrace new ways of working

Companies are increasingly softening to the ideas of remote working and flexitime as the understanding of the importance of employee wellness on productivity starts gaining ground. This and other noteworthy trends emerged from an annual HR Survey conducted by...

Impact of coronavirus containment ripple through global economy

Coronavirus will have a larger negative effect on the global economy than the SARS outbreak in 2003. Todd Lee, executive director, global economics at IHS Markit, and Elisabeth Waelbroeck Rocha, chief international economist at IHS Markit, analyse various scenarios....

Government CIOs battle disruption, poor funding

A massive 58% of government CIOs faced organisational disruption during the past four years, according Gartner’s 2020 global survey of CIOs. Fifty-two per cent of respondents said they had also faced a funding shortfall in that same time frame. These figures are...