Dell deals with digital transformation

Dell deals with digital transformation

Mark Davison at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas – Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies still remembers when his father brought home one of the first calculators and how he thought the device “was magic”. But he’s even more amazed by the magic currently...

Business success hinges on digital transformation

Kathy Gibson at IDC’s CIO Summit in Johannesburg – There is a profound degree of socio-economic and business change taking place, that is being driven by technology. Joseph Pucciarelli, group vice-president and IT executive advisor at IDC, cites the case of a...

No illusion … new server range raises the bar

Mark Davison at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas – Dell has announced the 14th generation of its PowerEdge servers, designed specifically to help customers in their quest for digital transformation. The new servers are due to ship mid-year. Dell chairman and CEO, Michael...

Government under fire from cyber-attacks

Cyber-attacks on the government sector doubled in 2016, hiking to 14% from 7% of all cyber security attacks in 2015. Attacks on the finance sector also rose dramatically from just 3% in 2015 to 14% of all attacks in 2016.  The manufacturing sector came in at third...

3D printing is set to take off

Worldwide 3D-printer shipments are set to rise 39% in 2017 and show a 42% CAGR over the next five years according to the latest figures from Context. Demand for personal/desktop printers continues to increase in the professional, educational and hobbyist markets and...

The distress of losing data is real …

While people claim that they understand the value of their data, in reality they don’t appreciate its importance until it is lost. People even break out in a cold sweat when they think they have lost data that they previously deemed “trivial”. These findings, which...