Hybrid cloud key for accelerating the digital journey
Kathy Gibson reports – Despite cloud being mainstream for at least the last eight years, only 20% of workloads have moved to the public cloud. One of the reasons for this is that moving to the public cloud is not always the cheapest option, says Mostafa Zafer,...
Constrained supply chains still impact manufacturers
Global restrictions implemented to curb the spread of Covid-19 have had a direct impact on manufacturing supply chains. Constraints are still evident across many manufacturing subsectors a year after the country first went into hard lockdown, according to the Q1 Absa...
Beware of new jobs scam
The Gauteng Provincial Government has issued a warning to the public about a scam by impostors who use the name of Premier David Makhura and make promises of jobs, investment opportunities and social grants. The imposters have created a fictitious Yahoo e-mail address...
IBM commits to open source Spark
IBM has announced a major commitment to Apache Spark, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its industry-leading analytics and commerce platforms,...
Enterprise app demand to exceed supply
By the end of 2017, market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organisations’ capacity to deliver them, according to Gartner.
Gartner forecasts mobile phone sales will reach 2,1-billion units by 2019, which will fuel demand for apps in the enterprise that meet the high performance and usability of consumer apps. Gartner principal research analyst Adrian Leow says enterprises find it a challenge to rapidly develop, deploy and maintain mobile apps to meet increasing demand, as it is exceedingly difficult and costly to hire developers with good mobile skills.
Millennials are overhyped in retail
Retailers should stop obsessing over Millennials and instead turn their attention to older generations with greater financial power. This is according to Forrester's Sucharita Mulpuru, who argues in new research that many of the opportunities and challenges...
GDP growth of 1,8% for developed world
The long-term potential growth rate for advanced economies will decelerate to an average of 1,8%, down from average potential growth of 2,5% during 1990–2007, according to an analysis utilising the Global Link Model from IHS. Although actual real gross domestic...
IPv6 unlocks new Internet possibilities
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the current iteration of the Internet Protocol and designed as replacement for IPv4. The updated version also offers several functionality enhancements for those who have switched to the new protocol. IPv4 was first defined in 1981, and utilised a 32-bit address identifier. The newer IPv6 addresses are 128-bits in length, vastly enlarging the size of the usable address space. IPv4 Internet addresses are quickly becoming exhausted. By contrast, IPv6 offers a staggering quantity of usable addresses, and are unlikely to reach exhaustion in the foreseeable future.
Ignore visual social content at your peril
Of the top 50 brands Forrester tracks in its Social WebTrack study, more than half maintain Instagram accounts, posting an average of 5,6 times per week. Engagement rates average 4,21%, compared with 0,07% on Facebook. Forrester poses the question, based on these...
Women set to spend more on IT
Female CIOs expect to increase their budgets by 2,4% in 2015, whereas male CIOs report average increases of just 0,8%, according to a survey by Gartner. The worldwide survey included responses from 2 810 CIOs, representing more than $397-billion in CIO IT budgets in...
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