SA to host supercomputer

South Africa is likely to be the home of the next record-breaking supercomputer, with Exabyte capacity and compute power in the Exaflops (floating point instructions per second) range. Dr Happy Sithole, from the Centre for High Performance Computing, says this new and...

Resellers: last chance to make your mark

Resellers are urged to make their voices heard in the fourth annual Channelwise Awards, by voting for their favourite vendors and resellers today. The survey closes tonight (23 October) at midnight, after which votes will be tallied to find out who will win the...

Bhat to take on VMware job

Ravi Bhat has been appointed at the new regional director for VMware, ending months of speculation about who will lead the local office of one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world. Bhat’s most recent position was as director of the IBM Software Group at...

Dell de-listing could boost channel

Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – Founder Michael Dell may have succeeded in his buyout of Dell, but the de-listing of the company won’t see any deterioration in its commitment to, or strategy for, the channel it’s been nurturing for the past seven...

Dell making its mark on software world

Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – It wasn’t that long ago that Dell was considered as purely a hardware organisation that looked doomed in a world moving towards an era of “total solutions”, but in the space of 18 months it has created one of the Top 20...