IT needs to address real business needs

By 2016, 65% of global competitive strategies will require realtime 3rd Platform IT as a service (ITaaS). The ability of CIOs and IT organisations to grasp how business wants services that serve actual business needs, not traditional IT components, is significantly...

Google, VMware work together on cloud

VMware has announced an expanded agreement with Google to deliver greater enterprise access to public cloud services via VMware vCloud Air. As part of this agreement, Google Cloud Platform will be tightly integrated into vCloud Air, providing enterprise customers with...

Digitisation tops CIO priority lists

The past three decades in the ICT industry have seen many disruptive waves of technology, but never as many waves hitting simultaneously as we are seeing today. That’s the view of Servaas Venter, country manager of EMC Southern Africa, who says: “CIOs in today’s...

Business needs will drive BI models

Traditional business intelligence (BI) and analytics models are being disrupted as the balance of power shifts from IT to the business, according to Gartner. The rise of data discovery, access to multi-structured data, data preparation tools and smart capabilities...

IoT set to impact manufacturing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is on track to dramatically transform manufacturers’ products, services and operations in 2015. While the hype persists around IoT, IDC Manufacturing Insight notes there are many signs that show confidence in IoT is with good reason....