As technology continues to evolve to meet the demands of organisations everywhere, so the need for reliable storage solutions is likely to grow – especially during a time where data increasingly dictates how a business functions. Regardless of whether you’re a big corporate company, or a start-up SME, you will eventually need a reliable storage […]
According to a recent Forbes article, Rolls-Royce used the internet of things (IoT) to improve jet-engine efficiency and save up to US$250 000 per plane a year in fuel, Royal Dutch Shell realised a $1-million return on an $87 000 investment in a remote IoT-based asset monitoring and maintenance solution across oil fields in West […]
Africa has only recently commenced the fixed line fibre journey. In this new wave of deployment, best practices from more mature fibre journeys need to be adopted, one of which is the incorporation of edge data centres. The increasing need to move data over long haul networks due to rapid regional African growth has made […]
Imagine a future where astronauts aboard a spaceship, or exploring Mars, can leverage supercomputing power to conduct simulations, run artificial intelligence (AI) applications, collect, analyse and then transmit data back to Earth, in real-time, clearly and without delays. A future where space exploration missions can use high performance, commercial off-the-shelf computers that offer teraflop speeds in […]
Arachnophobia is the technical term for the fear of spiders. Approximately 3,5 – 6,1% of the world’s population suffer from this phobia. Exposure therapy is the most common form of treatment. However, 60 – 80% of arachnophobes do not receive any therapy because of a lack of services. Others simply cannot bear the terror of […]
This article explores the architecture, applications, and benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) engines for compute intensive applications like 5G cellular and machine learning (ML) deep neural networks (DNN)/convolutional neural networks (CNN). 5G requires between five to ten times higher compute density when compared with prior generations; AI engines have been optimised for digital signal […]
With the enforcement of the Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013 (PoPI) on the horizon, South African business owners and leaders need to re-examine the way that they handle and process data. In essence, PoPI seeks to ensure that all South African institutions operate responsibly when managing, collecting, processing, storing and sharing personal information. The […]
Many organisations are facing challenges relating to the unstructured data they hold. By its very nature, unstructured data is in a form that is difficult to manage, and it is growing rapidly in size. This can make it difficult to understand who owns that data, whether it is being used or even whether it is […]
The Aston Martin Red Bull F1 racing team faces a great deal more IT challenges than your average enterprise. Not many IT teams have to rebuild their data centre 21 times each year and spin it up in a matter of hours. Not many data centres are packed up and transported around the world by […]
Data centre resilience has become more crucial than ever before as increasing volumes of transactions move to the cloud and paper-based data is digitised. Whether an organisation owns its own data centre facility or outsources the service to a third-party provider, the principles of redundancy and resilience need to be applied to the power chain. […]
