Unmet needs will drive big data adoption

A great unmet need for agile cloud application development, application scalability, broader data collection, extreme transaction processing and streaming data management are creating a need for multiple big data technologies besides Hadoop. A newly published...

Dell PowerEdge VRTX sees speedy adoption

Dell has announced that PowerEdge VRTX, the first integrated IT solution designed specifically for office environments, is seeing accelerated adoption by customers around the world. This revolutionary converged infrastructure solution simplifies office IT by removing...
SA businesses rush to the cloud

SA businesses rush to the cloud

South African business is poised for massive adoption of cloud computing, with some 75% of all applications set to be in the cloud within two years. This bold assertion comes from cloud computing services specialist Alto Africa, which says the promises made by the IT...

Monetisation key to IoT adoption

The Internet of Things (IoT), which includes intelligent devices ranging from smartphones to medical robotics, is forecast to grow to 26-billion units installed by 2020, representing an almost 30-fold increase from 0,9-billion in 2009.  Adoption is predicated upon...

Cloud adoption remains slow despite benefits

While the use of cloud is increasing among South African businesses, it seems that adoption remains relatively slow. According to the Cloud in Africa: Reality Check 2013 research study released by World Wide Worx and Cisco late last year, 50% of South African medium...