IT’s role in Chinese reform

As China enters a period of “second reform”, it will have a profound effect on the world’s economy, and the IT industry will have to change quickly to keep up. The Chinese government has revealed that by 2020, decisive achievements shall be made on reform in major...

Spammers exploit holiday season

As has become as traditional as the festive season itself, October saw spammers going all out to exploit the themes of upcoming holidays, as well as the names of well-known telecommunication service providers and the conflict in Syria. There were also offers of...

New forces shaping data centre strategy

The importance, role and functionality of data centres will change over the next five years, leaving many organisations unclear on how to plan their future data centre architectures, according Gartner, which says technical, fiscal and service delivery concerns will be...

IBM beats supercomputer record with Sequoia

Scientists at Swiss university ETH Zurich and IBM Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), have set a new record in supercomputing in fluid dynamics using 6,4-million threads on LLNL’s 96...

ConvergeNet warns earnings to decline

ConvergeNet Holdings has issued a trading statement, warning shareholders that it will probably increase its loss per share by about 20% for the 12 months ended 31 August 2013 compared to last year. A decrease in the basic and headline earnings per share for the year...