by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
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...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Product Showcase
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...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Product Showcase
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...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
New electronic devices are in short supply due to a global shortage of semiconductors, affecting particularly the production of new laptops, desktops and tablets. This is the word from Kwirirai Rukowo, GM of Qrent, who comments: “Currently, companies have been waiting...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Thought Leadership
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...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
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...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Ten years after Marc Andreessen declared that ‘software is eating the world,’ the software-defined revolution relies on new chip architectures to continue. By Kevin Deierling, senior vice-president: networking at Nvidia Software ate the world, now new silicon is...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports from Red Hat Summit – A move to cloud computing and open source solutions is underway as CIOs rethink their IT systems in the wake of the pandemic. Jonathan Tullett, senior research manager: cloud/IT services at IDC South Africa & Sub-Saharan...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports from InterSystems Virtual Summit 2021 – Data is your organisation’s most precious asset – but only if you are analysing it effectively to gain real insights. The last 18 months or so have been difficult for everyone in the world, says Terry Ragon,...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | news
After five quarters of growth driven by accelerated buying for remote work and learning, global shipments of Chromebooks and tablets recorded their first decline since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Chromebook shipments declined 29,8% year over year in the third...
