Today’s data centre build-out dwarfs previous infrastructure investments

Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history – bigger than the railroads or the Industrial Revolution. “People assume AI is a bubble, but it is showing no signs of...

Negative sentiment drives call for data centre transparency

Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – With data centres experiencing massive growth around the globe, the industry needs to do a better job of telling people the benefits they offer humanity at large. Worldwide, uncertainty about possible risks posed by...

Growing energy demand will limit ambitious climate goals

The global economy is on the cusp of a major shift where most of future global energy demand growth will come from emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The new realities of meeting this demand alongside the need for energy security, resilience and...

AI spend soars to unprecedented levels

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,7-trillion in 2026, a 49,5% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner. “Demand for AI infrastructure (including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices)...

Offender monitoring market sees rapid growth

Berg Insight has released new findings on the market for Electronic Monitoring (EM) of offenders. The number of participants in EM programmes on a daily basis in Europe, North America and Latin America amounted to about 46 000, 282 000 and 71 000 respectively during...

Hybrid shopping, AI help meet shifting consumer preferences

Hybrid shopping – mixing physical and digital channels in shopping journeys – is on the rise as shopping habits consumers adopted out of necessity during the Covid-19 pandemic are becoming routine. This is among the findings of a global study, “Consumers want it all”,...

IoT moves into the IT mainstream

Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure spending is making inroads into enterprise IT budgets across a diverse set of industry verticals. International Data Corporation (IDC) has just released the results of a US survey, IoT IT Infrastructure Survey, which finds that...

Public cloud market set for 2017 growth

The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 18% in 2017 to total $246,8-billion, up from $209,2-billion in 2016, according to Gartner. The highest growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service [IaaS]),...

Sithabile adds Cloudian to backup services

Sithabile Technology Services (STS), a South African data management solutions business, has adopted Cloudian HyperStore to support its backup, recovery and archiving services. Sithabile required a flexible solution to store multi-petabyte levels of unstructured data,...

Ransomware took off in 2016

About 20% of all spam emails in Q4 2016 distributed ransomware Trojans. According to Kaspersky Lab's "Spam and phishing in 2016" report, the volume of spam emails in 2016 increased to 58,31% of overall email traffic, a rise of 3,03% on 2015. Trojan.Win32.Bayrob was...

Mobile takes spend from gaming consoles

Spending on mobile gaming has taken over from traditional consoles, and both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) games are becoming increasingly popular. App Annie and International Data Corporation (IDC) have unveiled a special joint report entitled,...

Enterprise business to go as Samsung rationalises

Kathy Gibson reports from Samsung Africa Forum in Cape Town – An organisational restructure at Samsung SA will see the three operational areas rationalised into two. Enterprise business will be absorbed into the consumer electronics operation, with mobility still...

Samsung debuts digital, connected appliances

Kathy Gibson reports from Samsung Africa Forum in Cape Town - Digital technology is being used to make consumer appliances smarter and more efficient. - and they are connected, making the smart home a reality. Sunil Gupta, regional product manager for digital...

Cell C rejects Telkom acquisition

Mohammed Hariri, chairman of Cell C, has issued the following statement: Various articles have been published in the media this week, concerning a potential offer from Telkom to purchase Cell C. The board has the responsibility to be transparent and keep staff,...

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