Yacht racing goes digital with biometrics

Yacht racing goes digital with biometrics

SAP has partnered with the AkzoNobel Volvo Ocean Race team to provide biometric solutions based on its Leonardo technology to monitor crew members and conditions on board the ocean-going yacht. The yacht is taking part in the round-the-world race, currently on its...
Disruption and the future for Africa

Disruption and the future for Africa

Disruption happens when companies and industries are so greedy that they don’t want to innovate. That’s the word from musician and entrepreneur will.i.am, who explains: “They get so greedy, they don’t realise there is another way to do things like distributing music...
SUSE and the Africa success story

SUSE and the Africa success story

Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague – In just six years, SUSE has gone from just about nowhere to being an enterprise platform leader in South Africa – and the future is bright as companies under pressure to transform look to the open source platform. Matthew Lee, sale...
SUSE and the Africa success story

SUSEcon: Multimodal OS to bridge gap

Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague — SUSE is readying a multimodal operating system that will help CIOs bridge the growing gap between Mode 1 and Mode 2 IT operations. Business realities are driving cloud, software-defined everything and digital transformation. This is...
Reporting from VMWorld 2017, Barcelona

Reporting from VMWorld 2017, Barcelona

Partnerships key to VMware EMEA growth Kathy Gibson at VMworld in Barcelona — Partnering remains the core of VMware’s business, with 95% of sales in the EMEA region being signed through partners. “The company has had phenomenal momentum over the past year,” says Jean...
Report back: Huawei Connect 2017, Shanghai

Report back: Huawei Connect 2017, Shanghai

Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect, Shanghai -The smart city, while conceptual right now, will become reality as cloud computing, IoT and other enabling technologies come to maturity. “What is sure is that the idea of smart city is here, and it is here to stay,” says...