Sep 18, 2013
IBM South Africa has announced its second annual Tech Start Up Smart Camp under its Global Entrepreneur Program, a $150-million investment fund programme intended to build entrepreneurs and new business opportunities. Aimed at start-ups that are privately held, have...
Sep 18, 2013
IBM has announced plans to invest $1-billion in new Linux and open source technologies for IBM’s Power Systems servers. The investment aims to help clients capitalise on big data and cloud computing with modern systems built to handle the new wave of...
Sep 16, 2013
This week’s announcement of Synnex’s $505-million acquisition of IBM’s customer services business is big news for the customer relationship management (CRM) business process outsourcing (BPO) market, according to Margaret Goldberg, IT services analyst at Ovum. Synnex...
Sep 13, 2013
The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 sets a new world record with aggregate throughput of 17,244.22 SPC-2 MBPS with SPC-2 Price Performance of $22.53. The SPC-2 benchmark consists of three application-oriented sequential I/O performance tests, which include large file...
Aug 28, 2013
While global IT firms have tried valiantly for years to encourage girls and young women to enter the world of IT, the gender balance is still heavily loaded in favour of males. But new technology trends are set to make IT a very appealing career prospect for women in...
