HPE, Dell lead declining server market

In the second quarter of 2016, worldwide server revenue declined 0,8% year over year, while shipments grew 2% from the second quarter of 2015, according to Gartner. There was some shuffling among the top vendors in the second quarter, as Dell moved into the top spot...

EOH reports impressive 2016 results

EOH has reported revenues up by 31% to R930-million for its 2016 financial year. Earnings per share (EPS) and headline earnings per share (HEPS) have grown by 25% and 25% respectively. Cash has increased by 17% to R1 949-million, and the dividend increased by 23% to...
Back to normal after El Niño

Back to normal after El Niño

Not too hot, not too cold – instead, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around normal for the rest of 2016, according to forecasts from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, or GMAO. With these neutral conditions, scientists...

SA ports go online with e-commerce platform

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is moving forward on its goal to digitalise South Africa’s ports operations into “SMART People’s Ports” through an integrated e-commerce platform that should go live in April 2017. The new Order to Cash...

Gartner Hype Cycle reveals megatrends

Today’s business world is all about connectedness. The connection between people and things, the connection across geographies, and the connection across markets and industries. Gartner tracks emerging technologies in its annual Hype Cycle reports that enable...

Flash still lags in storage decisions

Enterprises need high-performance storage to support critical applications, but almost a quarter have no plans to adopt flash technologies. This is significant, as 85% out of the 3 000 IT decision-makers in a NetApp survey on flash adoption in EMEA are directly...