Jul 7, 2021
Continental, the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France have received a grant worth 43-million core hours of supercomputer time for their joint basic research project. The project, which aims to drive fundamental...
Apr 15, 2021
Companies are increasingly considering data centre modernisation as a means to implement digital transformation. The purpose is to move away from a traditional hardware environment to a software-defined one that is highly virtualised, highly automated and can scale up...
Jan 4, 2021
As we accelerate toward digital transformation, a perception has developed that so-called ‘legacy’ technology is outdated and therefore irrelevant. By Andre Van Wyk, mainframe architect at T-Systems South Africa One such example is mainframe technology. Yet...
Dec 21, 2020
As the world moved online seemingly overnight in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the criticality of data centres and the unrelenting reliance on them across all walks of life became an enduring storyline of the crisis. This reality will manifest in new ways in 2021...
Nov 11, 2020
The global pandemic put tremendous strain and pressure on IT, but our customers have adjusted, validated infrastructure performance needs and scalability, remained nimble and embraced the new normal. By Jim Holland, GM: Africa at Lenovo Data Centre Group It is clear...
Nov 5, 2020
For many decades, when anybody was talking about a computer’s performance, it would have been taken for granted that they were referring to its speed. In the high-octane world of today’s tennis court-sized supercomputers, this is measured in FLOPS, or floating-point...
