Serverless computing now fastest-growing cloud service
New analysis from Omdia’s Cloud Software & Services Intelligence Service shows that serverless computing has become the fastest-growing cloud service – with revenues now reaching $19-billion - and with public cloud hyperscalers taking the largest share of this...
Spend on cybersecurity set to skyrocket
Organisations worldwide have significantly increased their cybersecurity budgets, but research firm Stocklytics.com says that total spend on cybersecurity tools and services will skyrocket in the next few years - jumping by 50% and reaching $272-billion in revenue by...
What the future holds for our lifestyles
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Gartner see Q4 drop in PC shipments, but growth for the year
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 88,4-million units in the fourth quarter of 2021, a 5% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results by Gartner. This is the first year-over-year decline following six consecutive quarters of growth. For the...
Tech trends set to dominate business in 2022
Pressure from the global Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to embrace bold changes. Currently, digital transformation has a significant impact on organisations. A recent study forecast the digital transformation market will grow at a compound annual growth rate...
Smart tech critical for airline, airport success
While IT budgets have stayed largely flat in 2021, airport and airline CIOs are betting on technology to support their recovery from Covid-19, with a significant increase in spending on digitalisation and sustainability as key priorities by 2024. This is according to...
Global digital sales passed $1trn over the holiday season
While Cyber Week saw muted digital growth in 2021, early November and late December surges helped retailers break new sales records. Salesforce's 2021 Holiday Shopping Report, which analyses shopping data from over 1-billion shoppers on the Salesforce Customer 360...
Climate failure, social crises top global risks for 2022
Climate risks dominate global concerns as the world enters the third year of the pandemic. According to the Global Risks Report 2022, while the top long-term risks relate to climate, the top shorter-term global concerns include societal divides, livelihood crises and...
These were the top networking challenges in 2021
Responding to disruptions (45%) and accommodating new business needs (40%) have been cited in the report as the top network challenges during 2021. These are among the findings from Cisco's l Global Networking Trends Report, based on a survey of 1 534 IT professionals...
Mass spyware targets ICS computers
From 20 January to 10 November 2021, Kaspersky experts uncovered A new piece of malware that has targeted more than 35 000 computers across 195 countries has been uncovered by Kaspersky researchers. Dubbed "PseudoManuscrypt" for its similarities with the advanced...
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Busamed uses T-Systems healthcare solution
T-Systems in South Africa delivers its SAP Healthcare solution to Busamed, which aims to be one of the country’s first black-owned hospital groups. Busamed, chaired by Dr. Diliza Mji, a pioneer in revolutionary healthcare, has been issued with four licenses to build...
Africa’s social business solution
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Chequed.com partners with African firms
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Group Five sees improvements with PPO
In the five years since its implementation of Project Portfolio Office, an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, Group Five has seen improved enterprise resource management and project prioritisation, a higher level of project...
Flexible working solves work-hours issue
Each year the OECD produces a table of average working hours around the world. The table shows vast differences in the hours people work. It also creates huge scope for envy: Mexicans and South Koreans with 2 250 and 2 090 hours a year respectively must envy full-time...
Collaboration for Alcatel-Lucent, Intel
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Server load balancing makes sense for SMBs
South African businesses within the small-to-mid size market may consider server load balancing (SLB) an investment that is just a little too far from reach and an unnecessary burden. The truth is that the business case for an investment of this kind makes sense and...
EMC announces Claude Schuck appointment
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TCC rolls out Aspect solution
The UK-based contact centre outsourcer, The Contact Company (TCC), has chosen Aspect Software to improve efficiency and productivity across 1 000 seats over two sites in Birkenhead. The largest independent contact centre in the UK will deploy Aspect’s workforce...
The supply chain has gone global
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. The famous quote was initially uttered about France and Europe by Austria’s Prince Klemens von Metternich during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars to describe the effect it had on the rest of Europe, says Simon...
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