May 22, 2017
The worldwide cloud infrastructure services market continued growing in Q1 2017, up 42% year on year to reach $11,4-billion, according to Canalys’ latest estimates. Amazon’s AWS maintained its dominance, holding a stable global market share of 31%. It was...
May 22, 2017
Globally, the native digital assistant installed base is set to exceed 7,5-billion active devices by 2021 – which is more than the world population according to the US Census Bureau on 1 May 2017. Google Assistant will dominate the voice AI-capable device market...
May 22, 2017
The US virtual reality (VR) market formed 40% of the global market in Q1 2017, keeping its place as the largest market for VR in terms of volumes shipped worldwide. Sony PlayStation VR dominated the US market with just over 60% share. It capitalised on its installed...
May 19, 2017
Microsoft has announced that they will deploy hyperscale data centres in South Africa to deliver cloud services. According to Jon Tullett, research manager of IT Services at IDC Africa, this is a significant announcement as none of the top-tier cloud providers has...
May 19, 2017
A full one-third of almost 3 000 executives surveyed are using or considering blockchain in their business. According to largest study to date among C-Suite executives seeking their perspective on blockchain, eight in 10 of those exploring blockchain are investing...
May 19, 2017
There are no secrets, and corruption in the nuclear deal is unlikely, Eskom’s chief nuclear officer David Nicholls told delegates at the Nuclear Power Africa conference co-located with the annual African Utility Week conference and expo this week. He also...
