The future of the mobile worker
As mobility becomes more important for workers, they tend to use more than one device in order to get their jobs done wherever they are and whenever it’s relevant. These are among the findings from the second Global Evolving Workforce Study by Dell and Intel, which...Affordability to drive wearables dynamics
The wearables market will be worth $27-billion in 2020, with almost 400-million wearable devices sold in the year. Ovum expects sales of wearable devices to reach 394-million units in 2020, up from 24-million units in 2014, corresponding to a CAGR of 60%. Revenues...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...