Africa exceeds global growth for VMware

Kathy Gibson at VMworld in Barcelona — As organisations around the world buy into the software-defined data centre (SDDC) and cloud-first narrative, VMworld is enjoying sterling growth in South Africa and the sub-Saharan Africa region. Matthew Kibby, regional...

VMware integrates Pivotal containers

Kathy Gibson at VMworld in Barcelona — Since it was spun out of VMware, Pivotal has brought modern development tools to the production environments of the some of the world’s biggest companies. “We have become developer-ready,” says James...

An analyst’s view of the new iPhones

Analysts have started delving into the details of Apple’s new iPhone models. In this article, Ian Fogg, senior director, mobile and telecom at HIS Markit, gives his opinion.Apple has the best iPhone sales when a new model has a markedly different design. The iPhone X...

Server market rebounds

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 6,3% year over year to $15,7-billion in the second quarter of 2017 (2Q17), says IDC. Overall server market growth rebounded after several slow quarters as much of the market had been waiting for availability of...

Return of the mining botnet

Kaspersky Lab has identified two botnets made of computers infected with malware, which silently installs cryptocurrency miners — legitimate software used to create (“mine”) virtual currencies based on blockchain technology. In one instance...

Oracle beefs up IoT offering

Oracle has announced significant enhancements to the Oracle Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud, which now features built-in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that powers Digital Twin and Digital Thread capabilities.As such, customers and partners can...