Vendors battle for SDN leadership

There’s a battle raging for new and displaced revenue from software-defined networking. This is according to IHS, in its “Data Centre and Enterprise SDN Vendor Leadership Analysis”, which profiles and analyses 10 leading data centre enterprise...

Business intelligence, analytics at tipping point

Global revenue in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market is forecast to reach $16,9-billion in 2016, an increase of 5,2% from 2015, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. According to Gartner, the BI and analytics market is in the final stages of...

Banks under fire as Carbanak returns

A year after Kaspersky Lab warned that cyber-criminals would start to adopt the tools and tactics of nation-state backed APTs in order to rob banks, the company has confirmed the return of Carbanak as Carbanak 2.0 and uncovered two more groups working in the same...

EMC positioned for 2016 opportunities

EMC has reported fourth-quarter consolidated revenue of $7-billion, flat year over year (up 3% on a constant currency basis). GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $771-million in the fourth quarter, and GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0.39 in...

Samsung gears up for challenging year

Samsung posted KRW 53,32-trillion (R720,575-billion) in consolidated revenue and KRW 6.14 trillion (R82, 930 billion) in operating profit for for the fourth quarter that ended on 31 December 2015. Overall the company reported full-year 2015 revenue of KRW...
Wearables spark privacy dilemma

Wearables spark privacy dilemma

Wearables could become commonplace in the workplace, and employees would be happier to share personal information with their employers if they could see tangible benefits. But there aren’t currently clear guidelines to protect employees from misuse of their...