Big data to transform African development

IBM’s Africa research lab has partnered with RTI International to deploy big data analytics and cognitive technologies to help transform development approaches in Africa and around the world. In one of the first projects, IBM and RTI are developing and testing...
Breakthrough in 7nm chip design

Breakthrough in 7nm chip design

The world’s first 7nm (nanometre) chips, which could potentially result in the ability to place more than 20-billion tiny transistors on fingernail-sized chips, have been developed by an alliance led by IBM Research. To achieve the higher performance, lower power and...

Avnet, Tricon, Tri-Continental partner

Avnet Technology Solutions has announced that its services business unit has formed a strategic agreement with leading training provider Tricon Academy, Tri-Continental Limited, to deliver a complete range of IBM-certified courses across Africa. As an IBM Global...

Winning the security war

Negligence is cited in almost half of cyber-attacks – are you protecting yourself from giving out the wrong information?  According to a recent report released by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, carelessness was the primary root cause of data breaches in 2014. A...

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,...