Intel, Microsoft enable AI inference at the edge

Microsoft has announced Windows ML, which enables developers to perform machine learning tasks in the Windows OS. Windows ML efficiently uses hardware for any given artificial intelligence (AI) workload and intelligently distributes work across multiple hardware types...

Forex controls and lessons from Zimbabwe

South Africa must learn from the Zimbabwe experience, writes Jasson Urbach, a director of the Free Market Foundation. During 2009 – 2013 when Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC was running the finance portfolio, Zimbabwe lifted all foreign exchange (forex) and price...

You’re on the HCI journey: now what?

Alan Browning outlines what hyper-converged infrastructure is, and how companies that have started the journey can proceed to the next step. A subset of the complete software-defined data centre, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is becoming more mainstream, with...

Research points to North Korean nuclear testing

North Korea has recently initiated testing at one of its nuclear reactor sites in Yongbyon, according to a new report from Jane’s by IHS Markit. The report, which first appeared in Jane’s Intelligence Review, analyses a range of commercially available...

Cloud services drive Tata brand value

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the star of the IT Services sector this year, adding $1,3billion of value to its brand, which is now worth $10,4-billion. TCS’s growth contrasts with stagnation in the sector, which saw the combined value of the 13 brands in...

SMB LAN, data centre switches drive growth

Combined revenues from networking products sold to enterprise customers through the distribution channel in Western Europe (WE) were effectively flat in January 2018, declining by only -0,2% year-on-year. However, according to data published by Context, the enterprise...