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Emerging market storage on the increase
The regional landscape for enterprise storage is in the midst of change, as spending in emerging markets begins to outpace spending in more mature regions. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC): Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa...
Massive growth for Chinese smartphones
China’s mobile phone shipments registered 97-million units in Q1 2013, up 15% compared with the same period in 2012, while China’s smartphone shipments totalled 78-million units in Q1 2013, with a growth of 117% compared with the same period in 2012. International...
Co-processing grows in HPC sites
The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing big data analysis as part of their HPC workloads. This is...
IDC lowers monitor forecast
Continued decline in demand for PC desktops has led International Data Corporation (IDC) to lower its estimate of PC monitors shipped in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) to 33,8-million units, down from its previous forecast of 34,7-million units for the quarter. In...
Government IT spend still sluggish
Worldwide IT spending by government organisations is projected to total $449,5-billion in 2013, a slight decrease of 0,1% from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The forecast includes spending by government sector organizations on hardware, software,...
Legitimate sites can risk company data
Employees could be putting their company’s network and data at risk by visiting legitimate Web sites that have been secretly compromised with malware. This is according to Richard Broeke, sales manager at Securicom, a specialist provider of IT security services in...
Stratasys, Scheu Dental collaborate
Stratasys, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, has announced its collaboration with Scheu Dental for offering orthodontic labs a complete digital solution. Digital orthodontics is rapidly becoming the...
Mitel expands collaboration, voice solutions
Mitel, a leading provider of cloud and premises based unified communications (UC) software solutions, has announced two new product offerings: MiVoice for Lync and MiCollab 5.0 (formerly Mitel Application Suite or MAS). Building on its open Freedom Architecture, Mitel...
Mitel introduces new product offering
Mitel, a leading provider of cloud and premises based unified communications software solutions, has introduced a new product naming architecture based on the straight forward language customers use to identify and discuss solutions. The new architecture takes a...
HP enhances Converged Cloud portfolio
HP has now delivered the next phase of a common OpenStack-based architecture for HP’s private, managed and public cloud offerings. In addition, the company announced new software and services to accelerate time to market for private cloud implementations, and unveiled...
IT services more vital than ever
In an ever-changing world, where IT has to come to grips with trends like cloud computing, BYOD (bring your own device), multiple apps and scattered end-users, IT service management has become more crucial than ever. This year’s Smexa (Service Management Exhibition...
Telkom aims to improve performance
Telkom’s group CEO has promised to take bold action to improve the organisation’s performance. On Friday Telkom SA reported its 2013 annual results with an increase in profit after tax, excluding a R12-billion impairment, of R501-million from R179-million in the prior...
Google’s Project Loon takes to the skies
Google has announced the first step toward a new, experimental method of providing Internet access to rural, remote and underserved areas - balloon-powered Internet access. Project Loon is experimental technology that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes...
Emerging market storage on the increase
The regional landscape for enterprise storage is in the midst of change, as spending in emerging markets begins to outpace spending in more mature regions. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC): Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa...
Massive growth for Chinese smartphones
China’s mobile phone shipments registered 97-million units in Q1 2013, up 15% compared with the same period in 2012, while China’s smartphone shipments totalled 78-million units in Q1 2013, with a growth of 117% compared with the same period in 2012. International...
Co-processing grows in HPC sites
The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing big data analysis as part of their HPC workloads. This is...
IDC lowers monitor forecast
Continued decline in demand for PC desktops has led International Data Corporation (IDC) to lower its estimate of PC monitors shipped in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) to 33,8-million units, down from its previous forecast of 34,7-million units for the quarter. In...
Government IT spend still sluggish
Worldwide IT spending by government organisations is projected to total $449,5-billion in 2013, a slight decrease of 0,1% from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The forecast includes spending by government sector organizations on hardware, software,...
Legitimate sites can risk company data
Employees could be putting their company’s network and data at risk by visiting legitimate Web sites that have been secretly compromised with malware. This is according to Richard Broeke, sales manager at Securicom, a specialist provider of IT security services in...
Stratasys, Scheu Dental collaborate
Stratasys, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, has announced its collaboration with Scheu Dental for offering orthodontic labs a complete digital solution. Digital orthodontics is rapidly becoming the...