IT spend will breach $7trn for the first time in 2027

Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $7,35-trillion in 2027, up 15% from 2026, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Collectively, the market forces are reinforcing spend around AI infrastructure, AI-enabled cloud platforms, and advanced software...

As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Intel unveils new architecture advancements

At Intel Architecture Day, the company unveiled what it is calling its biggest shifts in Intel architectures in a generation. Raja Koduri, senior vice-president and GM: accelerated computing systems and graphics group, discusses highlights of the announcements....

Big data and analytics spend set to hit $215,7bn

Worldwide spending on big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions is forecast to reach $215,7-billion this year, an increase of 10,1% over 2020, according to a new update to the Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation...

Brexit would have little impact on IT spend

The impact of a "Brexit" (the scenario in which the UK left the European Union following the referendum in the on 23 June) would be mildly negative for IT spend in the UK, but neutral for the rest of the European Union, according to IDC's European analysts. IDC Europe...

Africa developers shine at Facebook’s F8

Facebook has partnered with a number of African developers to launch products for the global market. The company announced at last week's F8 conference that it is including African developers in its beta testing programme for the launch of new global products and...

Cyber-threats on an upward trajectory

Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs' Cybersecurity conference in Baku - At least 2,2-billion cyber-attacks were experiences in the first quarter of 2016 - and significantly, at least 52% of users faced at least one infection attempt during the quarter. In the...

Huawei trials Africa’s first 4.5G link in Namibia

Huawei and MTC, the largest operator in Namibia, have announced the commercial use of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network in Namibia, and inaugurated the first 4.5G trial in Africa. At the inauguration attended by Namibia's president Dr Hage Geingob ad minister of...

Backup market swings to positive

Purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues decreased 13% year over year to reach $277-million in Europe during the fourth quarter of 2015, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. For...

Large-scale digitisation calls for innovation

Worldwide, the growth of the traditional information and communications technology (ICT) markets have gradually declined as 3rd Platform technologies (such as cloud, big data/analytics, mobility and social business) have enabled the digital transformation of global...

Industrial security: the new frontier

Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ Cybersecurity conference in Baku - As the Internet of Things becomes more pervasive, organisations find that their industrial systems are now exposed on their corporate IT networks and therefore a lot more vulnerable than they...

Chinese vendors gain traction in large format printing

IDC Asia/Pacific reports in its latest Quarterly Large Format Printer (LFP) Tracker for Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) that global vendors took a major hit in the technical large format printer market in 2015. Overall in APeJ, the total large format printer...

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