Oct 10, 2013
Oracle has announced new x86 servers, based on the latest Intel Xeon processors E5-2600 v2 product family. Oracle’s new Sun Server X4-2 and Sun Server X4-2L have set a SPECjEnterprise2010 world record for the best result achieved on a two-socket x86 server. Running...
Oct 10, 2013
There is a huge IT skills shortage in this country, but for the demand to be met so that South Africa can compete globally, massive changes need to happen at school level. In South Africa, there are currently around 40 000 and 70 000 open job positions for candidates...
Oct 10, 2013
Altonet, local provider of the HP Autonomy range of backup and data protection services, has announced the release of HP’s latest version of its Autonomy LiveVault backup solution – LiveVault 7.7. This new version delivers integration with VMware vSphere support...
Oct 9, 2013
In June, thanks to one of its now former and very famous employees blowing the whistle, the news broke that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) was using a programme, code-named PRISM, to spy on e-mails, Internet phone calls, file transfers, photos, videos and...
Oct 9, 2013
WiFi is not new. Although it’s hard to track its origins, it’s safe to say WiFi was being used on a large scale for the first time in the late 1990s, which probably qualifies it as being prehistoric in tech terms. But there has been renewed interest in the technology...
Oct 9, 2013
Data storage has quickly moved from gigabytes to terabytes, petabytes, exabytes and even zettabytes in some industries. The need is greater than ever before to collect, cleanse, correlate and analyse large stores of data, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, a...
