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...

IaaS, PaaS revenue to pass $400bn in 2025

New IDC Forecast for Public Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) Workloads Puts International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published a new forecast for the Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service...

Young entrepreneurs aim to make a difference

Young people look to entrepreneurship opportunities primarily to make a difference in the world. The Entrepreneurship Survey, based on an emailed questionnaire answered by a selection of young entrepreneurs within the 15 to 25 age group, and located across the African...

Fibre to everywhere close to reality in SA

South Africa's telecoms industry is on the cusp of its next wave of growth, thanks to the growing uptake of bandwidth intensive applications such as Cloud services and Internet TV streaming from businesses and consumers alike. That's according to Suveer Ramdhani,...

Strong growth ahead for software-defined WANs

Software-defined networking has already arrived in the data centre, providing the agility and responsiveness that data centere networks need to meet the demands of cloud computing. Now the focus is shifting toward wide area networks (WANs), which can also be optimised...

Crowdsourced safety apps take off

The very nature of social media's open communication and crowdsourced information provides a powerful tool for public safety. This is according to ttrumput co-founder Grant Theis, who says: "The growth of social media continues to grow exponentially - and the sharing...

Boost for women in science

Five leading women scientists and 15 promising young researchers were honoured yesterday at the 18th edition of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Ceremony at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris. Irina Bokova, director-general of Unesco and Jean-Paul Agon,...

Thin client sales down in 2015

The global enterprise client device market, composed of thin and terminal clients, ended the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15) with a 6,8% reduction in shipments compared to the same quarter one year ago, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...

Virtual reality not mainstream yet

There's lots of talk about the potential of virtual reality (VR) - but should we buy into all the hype? According to JP Gownder, vice-president and principal analyst at Forrester, the answer is no. “We're hearing a lot about the promise of virtual reality, especially...

Hyperscale data centres drive server spend

The EMEA server market continued to show moderate growth in the fourth quarter of 2015, reporting $3,9-billion in vendor revenue and 625 000 units shipped, for year-on-year growth of 5% and -1,6% respectively. According to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA...

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