Aug 20, 2013
The Hitachi Information Forum has kicked off in Johannesburg, focusing on IT evolution. Welcoming delegates to the conference, HDS’ Adrian Wood says Hitachi’s key focus is to look at society and the application of technology in changing it. “Technology about...
Aug 16, 2013
A vast majority (83%) of South African companies believe that using big data will help them to improve their decision-making; however, most organisations are battling to implement a technology that will take advantage of this. EMC yesterday released the findings of a...
Aug 8, 2013
Software is eating the business world and open source software is eating the software world, said Johann Evans, chief technical officer at Cherry Olive, the unified data management specialists. “We can see open source software maturing and coming of age – and its...
Jul 26, 2013
As anyone who has shopped at one of the major global online retailers knows, buying patterns are carefully monitored by the site. What users buy, what products they browse – sometimes even how they navigate through a single page – all is recorded and fed...
Jul 11, 2013
Following a recent survey among 300 organisations in Australia, IDC reports that about a third view Big Data analytics as essential or critical to their business, while 80% have either deployed or have plans to launch it in the next 12 months. This illustrates,...
