Cyberthreats continue to break records

We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons. “We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth generation of cyber threats (Gen V),“...

Embrace challenges for future growth

The Covid-19 pandemic and the July riots and looting have resulted in stock shortages and logistical issues which have been a massive frustration for the channel in South Africa. By Dorio Bowes, commercial director of Westcon Southern Africa For instance, lockdown...

Intel unveils new architecture advancements

Intel has unveiled what it is calling its biggest shifts in Intel architectures in a generation. Raja Koduri, senior vice-president and GM: accelerated computing systems and graphics group, discusses highlights of the announcements.   Efficient-core A highly...

IBM unveils on-chip accelerated AI processor

IBM has unveiled details of the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in realtime. Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing while a...

From virtualisation to x-as-a-service

The history of virtualisation is a long one. By Ian Jansen van Rensburg VMware itself started back in 1998, providing server virtualisation services. It was, in rudimentary terms, the capability of taking a software layer and making it take care of the complexity...

Polaris steers towards an exabyte future

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) has chosen AMD EPYC and NVidia’s accelerated computing platform to power a new supercomputer, called Polaris, which will prepare researchers for the forthcoming exascale supercomputer at Argonne...