Microsoft embraces containers for apps

Microsoft and Docker have announced a strategic partnership to provide Docker with support for new container technologies that will be delivered in a future release of Windows Server. Developers and organisations that want to create container applications using Docker...

All change for MEA handsets

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) handset market grew to its largest size in ten quarters in Q2 2014, expanding 27% year on year to total 64-million units. The latest insights from global advisory and consulting services firm International Data Corporation (IDC) show...

Intelligent systems to top $1trn by 2019

The deployment of billions of advanced systems across major industries over the next five years will be critical to enabling the vision around intelligent systems. According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) study, “Worldwide Embedded and Intelligent...

Better data privacy will boost innovation

Action is needed on data privacy, and ignoring it could stifle innovation in the ICT industry. Malcolm Harkins, vice president and chief security and privacy officer for Intel, says the potential to unlock revolutionary discoveries is at stake, and called on the...

SAP signs IBM up in the cloud

SAP has selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services for its business critical applications – accelerating customers’ ability to run core business in the cloud. The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud offering is now available through IBM’s...

Western Cape dominates Computer Olympiad

The Western Cape has once again dominated the 2014 South African Programming Olympiad. Peter Waker, speaking at awards function in Cape Town this week, comments on how multi-talented the winners are. “The public perception is that a star computer programmer must be a...