Dell EMC accelerates AI adoption

Dell EMC has announced the availability of new Ready Solutions for AI, with specialised designs for machine learning with Hadoop and Deep Learning with NVidia. “There’s no doubt that AI is the future, and our customers are preparing for it now,” says...

Digital transformation and Africa’s rail system

Few modes of transport evoke such a sense of history and romanticism as rail. By Gilbert Saggia, MD: East Africa at SAP The first recorded use of rail transport was around 500BC, when ancient Greeks used a rail-like system – most likely powered by humans or...

Choose the right cloud for your digital revolution

In Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing our Digital Future, the authors speak of a triple revolution – that “we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd”. By Derek Bose, senior...

Network security 101 – cyber security basics

Michael Colin, head of sales at BitCo Telecoms, has compiled this basic cybersecurity guide for businesses. What you and your employees need to know about IT security: To best protect your business against malicious attacks and security breaches, you have to...

Building an integrated, secure cloud strategy

According to research, cloud computing is cited as one of four critical technology trends – others include Internet of Things, mobile computing and social media – that are likely to have the most significant impact on business over the next two to three...

Oracle debuts autonomous transaction processing

Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison has marked a milestone in the company’s autonomous strategy with the availability of the latest Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing. Leveraging...