The healthcare risk of debt

The healthcare risk of debt

Debt is one of the biggest healthcare risks to South Africa’s workforce and it puts company performance at risk. This is according to Dr Richard Malkin, MD of Workforce Healthcare, who says: “In dealing with 34 000 employees nationally, we have seen that rising debt...

Xeon Scalable breaks supercomputing records

The Intel Xeon Scalable processor now holds over 110 world records in performance and has delivered the fastest adoption rate of any new Intel Xeon processor on the Top500, with over 25 petaFLOPS of performance in 18 supercomputers. On the November 2017 Top500 list,...

EMEA’s IT spend to hit $1trn in 2018

IT spending in EMEA is projected to total $1-trillion in 2018, an increase of 4,9% from estimated spending of $974-billion in 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. In 2017, however, all categories of IT spending in EMEA underperformed global averages....

Apple retakes wearables market lead

Apple retook the lead in the wearable band market in the third quarter of 2017, with shipments of 3,9-million. It posted its strongest quarter so far in 2017, thanks to the release of the Apple Watch Series 3. Xiaomi and Fitbit, which shipped 3,6-million and...

Distributors see sustained PC revenue rise

Western Europe’s largest distributors saw PC revenues continuing to rise in October 2017 after a significant increase in the third quarter. This is according to data published by Context, a European IT market research company. Revenues from PC sales were up by +11%...

Chinese-speaking actors drive half of Q3 threats

The third quarter of 2017 clearly demonstrated that Chinese-speaking actors have not “disappeared” and are still very much active, conducting cyber-espionage campaigns against a wide range of countries and industry verticals. In total, 10 of the 24 research projects...