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Acer celebrates 50 years, set for the next 50

Mar 11, 2026

Kathy Gibson reports from Milan, Italy – Acer is celebrating its 50th birthday, kicking off its second half-century by embracing the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology, debuting a new channel programme, and launching a range of new commercial devices....

Channel still front and centre of Acer’s future strategy

Mar 11, 2026

Kathy Gibson reports from Milan, Italy – As it celebrates its 50th birthday, Acer has reaffirmed its steadfast commitment to the channel. Cristina Pez, director of commercial marketing and go-to-market at Acer EMEA, explains that the company’s go-to-market is 100%...

Acer extends AI offering with new TravelMate portfolio

Mar 11, 2026

Acer has unveiled a new lineup of TravelMate Copilot+ PCs that empower organisations of all sizes to unleash the full potential of AI. The new TravelMate P4 14 AI, TravelMate P4 Spin 14 AI, TravelMate P2 16 AI, and TravelMate P2 14 AI business laptops are powered the...

It’s a wrap: Africa Tech Festival 2025

Nov 13, 2025

Cape Town hosted the 2025 Africa Tech Festival this week. Kathy Gibson attended to find out what the continent can look forward to in the coming months. AI key for Africa to unlock youth dividend By 2030, more young Africans will enter the workplace than the...

Vertiv: Driving Innovation

Nov 13, 2025

Vertiv hosted Europe’s Data Centre Associations at its facility in Tognana, Italy. The company also took the opportunity to showcase the vitally-important role that power and cooling play in the development of new, more performant, data centres. Kathy Gibson reports ...

Are you ready to run the AI race?

Oct 24, 2025

Kathy Gibson reports – The AI race is on – and the question everyone needs to ask is: are you ready? This is the question posed by Smangele Nkosi, GM of Cisco Southern Africa, speaking to delegates at Cisco Connect Southern Africa 2025 in Kyalami. “The digital...

Infrastructure key as AI evolves

Oct 24, 2025

Kathy Gibson reports – Not only is artificial intelligence (AI) already a widespread phenomenon, it is rapidly maturing into its second age. The first era put the power of AI at every user’s fingertips; the second era is where agentic AI will be employed to perform...

First Distribution launches IBM Power11

Aug 28, 2025

Kathy Gibson reports – IBM’s Power 11 launch is one of the company’s most significant in recent years: the new technology promises to improve customers’ productivity and reduce costs, while paving the road to full artificial intelligence (AI) value. SA channel...

Report-back on Saphila 2025 Transcend

Jun 5, 2025

The African SAP User Group (AFSUG) held its biennial Saphila meeting this week in Sun City, where representatives from users, partners and SAP shared solutions and learnings. Kathy Gibson reports How AI is transforming digital transformation Change has always been a...

All the news from Nutanix .Next

May 16, 2025

Nutanix is rapidly expanding its platform to embrace not just hyperconverged infrastructure, but all aspects of cloud, on-premise and edge infrastructure to truly enable its mantra of ‘run anything anywhere’. Kathy Gibson attended Nutanix .Next in Washington DC to...

All the HP Partner Award winners

Feb 14, 2025

HP honoured its top resellers and distributors at its recent 2024 Partner Awards. Yesh Surjoodeen, MD of HP Southern Africa, and Richard Stainforth, HP omnichannel manager, named the company’s top retail and commercial resellers, and distributors across various...

Vertiv: Driving innovation tour

Nov 28, 2024

Data Centres are taking on a new prominence as the move to artificial intelligence drives up the requirements for compute and storage. This means CIOs are having to find new and innovative ways to power and cool computers that are become denser with every new chip...

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