Legacy does not always mean irrelevant – long live the mainframe
As we accelerate toward digital transformation, a perception has developed that so-called ‘legacy’ technology is outdated and therefore irrelevant. By Andre Van Wyk, mainframe architect at T-Systems South Africa One such example is mainframe technology. Yet...
Data centres to the fore in Covid crisis
As the world moved online seemingly overnight in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the criticality of data centres and the unrelenting reliance on them across all walks of life became an enduring storyline of the crisis. This reality will manifest in new ways in 2021...
Fujitsu Primergy server racks up record performance
The recently launched, new-generation Fujtisu Server Primergy RX4770 M6 has set new world records for performance. The processing power is verified both for demanding in-memory environments with the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark and for large-scale virtual...
Investing in a smarter way forward
The global pandemic put tremendous strain and pressure on IT, but our customers have adjusted, validated infrastructure performance needs and scalability, remained nimble and embraced the new normal. By Jim Holland, GM: Africa at Lenovo Data Centre Group It is clear...
Fujitsu develops new tech for quantum-inspired Digital Annealer
Fujitsu Laboratories, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, has successfully developed a new parallel search technology to help achieve megabit-class performance for large-scale problems, representing an important technical milestone for its Digital...
Why efficiency matters in the modern data centre
For many decades, when anybody was talking about a computer’s performance, it would have been taken for granted that they were referring to its speed. In the high-octane world of today’s tennis court-sized supercomputers, this is measured in FLOPS, or floating-point...
Intelligent infrastructure in the modern data centre
As the world's largest IT companies realise the importance of 'intelligent infrastructure' in the modern data centre, the race is on between storage competitors to provide products and solutions that are actually truly intelligent, and not merely standard...
Fujitsu accelerates advanced workloads with Nvidia GPU-powered Server Primergy GX2460 M1
Fujitsu is fuelling global data-driven transformation by making NVidia GPU-accelerated computing for advanced AI workloads accessible to mainstream customers. The expansion of its Nvidia GPU-driven Primergy GX server portfolio delivers high-speed performance for...
The mainframe’s role in a customer-centric world
The mainframe has a growing role to play in a world of digital transformation where the customer is king. By Gerard King, CA Southern Africa's mainframe pre-sales and support engineer Businesses around the globe, small and large, are continually striving for customer...
A shadow IT pandemic may follow Covid-19
For as long as users have had access to mobile devices and the Internet, there has been a tension between IT departments and the end-user communities they serve. By Naren Mewa, chief digital officer of Tarsus Distribution On the one hand, IT needs to impose standards...
Data centre trends and their impact on SA’s digital economy
Recent reports have shown that data traffic in Africa has risen by 20% since the arrival of Covid-19. As the world comes to terms with the new normal, there is an urgent need to manage, store and protect these escalating volumes of data. Data centres rely on...
Lenovo DCG debuts cloud-based business agility solutions
Lenovo Data Centre Group (DCG) has announced a range of new and updated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions and Lenovo Cloud Services in partnership with Nutanix, Microsoft and VMWare. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are suited to provide...