Africa stories - Page 23

Australian companies are considering outsourcing finance and accounting functions to South Africa due to cost advantages and high quality standards.

TechDay explores the growth opportunity for South Africa as big brands flock to the country for software development. #BPESA #offshoring.

70% of organisations are taking longer than expected to adopt hybrid cloud, according to a new report by Nutanix and Vanson Bourne.

IT and DevOps practitioners are overwhelmed by the increase in IT incidents since COVID-19, says PagerDuty survey.

Beyond Limits, an AI technology company, has raised $133m to drive global expansion, with investments from Group 42 and bp ventures.

Cloud networking company neutrality.one expands into Asia, Middle East, and Africa with new point of presence in Dubai's datamena facility.

Global server market revenue grew by 19.8% YoY in Q2 2020, reaching $24bn, with worldwide server shipments up 18.4% to nearly 3.2 million units.

Vertiv named leading supplier in modular data center market, with scalability and speed of deployment driving growth.

Omdia research reveals that the global market for prefabricated modular data centres, from the edge to the core, increased by more than 65%.

A white hat hacker hacker uncovered a total of 9517 unsecured databases worldwide, collectively containing more than 10 billion entries.

Stax, the cloud automation platform, plans global expansion despite the economic downturn, with managing director Mike Middaugh leading the investment strategy.

Research has identified a total of 9,517 unsecured databases containing 10,463,315,645 entries with such data as emails, passwords, and phone numbers.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant names Cohesity as a leader in data center backup and recovery solutions. Cohesity praised for its modern data management approach.

Vertiv enhances its Partner Programme with new tools and products, aiming to solidify its dominance in the edge infrastructure market across EMEA.

The company helps organisations to expand internationally without the need for branch offices or subsidiaries.

Investors and developers are ‘bullish’ about the economic prospects of the data centre industry despite the overall impact of COVID-19 on the economic climate.

Global PC shipments see strong growth in Q2 2020, driven by demand for notebooks during work-from-home and e-learning, according to IDC.

Gomersall was formerly an IBM and Red Hat business unit executive and previously had a long career working in a number of global roles for IBM.

Mooney will be tasked with helping to guide the business through its ongoing reinvention towards becoming a more digitally focused business.

e-Waste is the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, fueled by consumption rates of equipment, short life cycles, and few options for repair.