Oracle offers apps in Cloud Marketplace

Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – In amongst a slew of new cloud offerings, Oracle has also introduced the Oracle Cloud Marketplace aimed at giving businesses easy access to innovative and trusted business applications. The company says the Cloud...

Business continuity reaches the boardroom

The level of interest by African organisations in business continuity management (BCM) has risen in recent years. The report of a KPMG BCM Survey performed in 18 African countries in 2013, entitled Business Continuity Management in Africa: Building Resilience in a...

Companies battle with long-term storage

The majority of IT decision-makers in large organisations use manual processes to analyse and migrate stored data. They also rarely delete data, rather adding more storage when necessary. These are some of the findings from an independent survey commissioned by...

Global economy is still in disarray

Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the world economy remains in disarray, according to a new UNCTAD report. To adjust to what now appears to be a structural crisis of the world economy, fundamental changes are needed in prevailing economic...

Dell surges ahead in monitor stakes

Dell has moved ahead of Samsung in the worldwide PC monitor market for the first time since 2007, shipping more than 5-million units in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13). Total PC monitor shipments for the quarter were 33,5-million units, which was 1,6-million units...