Why efficiency matters in the modern data centre

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...

The mainframe’s role in a customer-centric world

The mainframe has a growing role to play in a world of digital transformation where the customer is king. By Gerard King, CA Southern Africa’s mainframe pre-sales and support engineer Businesses around the globe, small and large, are continually striving for...

A shadow IT pandemic may follow Covid-19

For as long as users have had access to mobile devices and the Internet, there has been a tension between IT departments and the end-user communities they serve. By Naren Mewa, chief digital officer of Tarsus Distribution On the one hand, IT needs to impose standards...

Data centre trends and their impact on SA’s digital economy

Recent reports have shown that data traffic in Africa has risen by 20% since the arrival of Covid-19. As the world comes to terms with the new normal, there is an urgent need to manage, store and protect these escalating volumes of data. Data centres rely on...

Dependable supply chain key in keeping up with data centre demand

The world of work has irreversibly changed as businesses around the world have realised the relative ease and convenience of remote working. However, these businesses have also realised the importance of their IT infrastructure in achieving a successful shift of...

HPE, Cray debut exascale HPC and AI solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced it will deliver the industry’s most comprehensive high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio for the exascale era, which is characterised by explosive data growth and new converged...