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...

How to become a purpose-driven supply chain

As enterprises move from operating profit-centric to purpose-driven, chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) must focus on five actions to create a purpose-driven supply chain, according to Gartner. "Purpose-driven enterprises deliver benefits for stakeholders while also...

PC gamer numbers jump above 1,8bn

Despite the looming threat of mobile gaming, PC games are still a huge revenue-generating machine bringing billions of dollars of profit each year. The number of PC gamers is also on the rise. During 2020, the global sales of gaming PCs grew by 16,2%, thanks to the...

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...

DiData brings SAP’s cloud to Africa

Kathy Gibson reports from the SAP HEC launch in Johannesburg - SAP has launched its Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) in Africa, delivering a secure private cloud to its customers through a partnership with Dimension Data. Paulo Masselli, CEO of Dimensions Data's...

Cloud adoption reaches tipping point in SA

Kathy Gibson reports from the SAP HEC launch in Johannesburg - Cloud computing initiatives are  seeing rapid acceleration in the local market, says Clinton Jacobs, analyst at BMITechknowledge. The local analyst firm has recently completed its Data Centre and Cloud...

Is it terrorism or hacktivism?

It seems that one citizen's hacktivist is another's cyber terrorist. Today, an undecided verdict hangs over groups like Anonymous, which harness the power of technology to help ignite revolutions, fight oppression and dismantle dictatorships, while pursuing targeted...

IT vendors missed out on the PaaS boom

Worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue totaled $23,9-billion in 2015, a 0,1% increase from 2014, according to Gartner. The considerable appreciation of the US dollar in 2015 masked growth in the market. In constant currency terms...

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