Craig Stephens, Advisory Business Solutions Manager, SAS in South Africa Cloud computing’s role in today’s digital marketplace is undeniable. It allows for significant advancements through analytics, machine learning, and AI. However, concern over its carbon footprint is growing. The cloud’s greenhouse gas emissions (GGEs) now eclipse that of the global aviation industry. This highlights the…
Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) device pervasiveness, susceptibility, and cloud connectivity provide a fast-rising, frequently unregulated risk surface affecting a broader range of industries and organizations. The rapid growth of IoT provides attackers with a larger entry point and attack surface. Access to less secure OT is creating the possibility for devastating infrastructure attacks…
The Six Biggest Blockchain Trends Everyone Should Know About In 2021 Written by Bernard Marr Blockchain has been one of the most talked-about tech trends of the last few years. As with many other trends that were important before the pandemic hit, it didn’t make as many headlines in 2021 as it has done previously….
Oracle has announced a Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)recruitment drive to hire 1,400 new cloud sales professionals who will play a vital role in fuelling the growth of the company’s cloud business throughout the region. The new roles will be based in six locations: Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Cairo and Dubai (Middle East); Dublin (Ireland);…
Information Technology spending in Nigeria-the largest economy in Africa- will top $5.3 billion in 2016 as organizations increasingly embrace digital transformation initiatives in a bid to streamline their costs and bolster their flexibility. This is according to global technology research and consulting services firm International Data Corporation (IDC), which last week hosted an event at Victoria Crown…
The new technologies making waves now revolve around Big Data, Cloud and Internet of Things. We are really getting so familiar with these words these days. Am sure this is a very exciting times for anyone, no matter where in the world you live in, you don’t even have to be a techie to start…
As the Oracle Open World 2015 enters into its second day, Oracle has announced several products across the three layers of the Cloud: Software as a service(Saas),Platform as a service(Paas) and Infrastructure as a service. Further enhancing its digital business platform for the enterprise and the cloud, Oracle outlined new innovations across the Oracle Fusion…
Oracle OpenWorld is an annual Oracle convention for business decision-makers, IT management, and line-of-business end users.It is the world’s largest conference for Oracle customers and technologists, Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco attracted some 60,000 visitors in 2014 and an additional 7 million were expected to follow the event online. In 2014, the convention program included…