Apr 18, 2019
For the first time in four years, demand for flat panel displays grew double digits at 10,5%, year over year, to 221-million square meters in 2018, according to business information provider IHS Markit. “Although uncertainties about the global economy grew in...
Apr 18, 2019
Telecom multinational Angola Cables has announced the opening of its carrier neutral data centre, AngoNAP Fortaleza in Fortaleza, Brazil. The Tier III-designed data centre will cater for the growing demand in content and data transmission in the southern hemisphere....
Apr 17, 2019
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,79-trillion in 2019, an increase of 1,1% from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Currency headwinds fueled by the strengthening U.S. dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast...
Apr 17, 2019
YouTube dominates the free online video segment in South Africa, with nearly nine out of 10 connected, urban consumers regularly accessing free video on YouTube and just under half watching YouTube videos every day. That’s according to Rachel Thompson, Insights...
Apr 17, 2019
Absa Group has successfully migrated the banking platform used by six of its African subsidiaries -Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius, Barclays Tanzania, Seychelles and Zambia – from Barclays’ data centre in the UK to Absa’s data centre in South Africa. The...
Apr 17, 2019
Companies are recognising that digital transformation needs to part of their core strategy and are creating fewer chief digital officer (CDO) positions than they were two years ago. In the latest study of CDOs conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy...
