Marc Ferranti
Editor in Chief
Marc Ferranti is the editor in chief of the IDG News Service, and is based in New York.
IDC: PC shipments plunge in Africa, as South Africa gets hit worst
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the lowest number of PC shipments in the Africa-Middle East region since 2009, as South Africa is affected by weak rand, IDC says.
IDC: PC shipments plunge in Middle East, but Turkey rebounds
Coronavirus curbs demand across the Middle East and Africa, but the Turkish market saw a rebound from last year, and the education sector buoyed tablet sales in Egypt, IDC says.
Iran-linked group hacked Kuwait, Saudi transport, government entities
Bitdefender reports that hacking group Chafer attacked government-affiliated entities in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, after a history of targeting Iranian individuals as well as Middle East government entities, airlines and telecom...
Middle East IT spending forecast slashed, as cloud offers bright spot
Gartner reports that due to the coronavirus, spending on IT in the Middle East and North Africa will decline by 6 percent this year, in reversal of earlier expectations, as cash outlays on devices, IT services and data centres are...
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UPDATE: Dubai Expo is postponed definitively until 2021
The organisation governing officially designated world's fairs has voted to postpone Dubai Expo 2020, considered to be an IoT-driven, smart-city prototype.
Senegal accelerates e-commerce initiatives to combat COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed Senegal to speed up the rollout of a public e-commerce platform, projects for internet infrastructure development and legislation governing data collection, paving the way for new business...
Saudi Arabia to push multicloud, security adoption in wake of COVID-19
The novel coronavirus is speeding up adoption of cloud and emerging technology in the Kingdom, IDC says, but it is also likely to expose security weaknesses amid rising geopolitical tensions.
Zain upgrades 5G network to improve service level agreements
SRv6 traffic engineering helps enable network slicing, giving operators the ability to optimise the same physical network for different services.
Enterprise software, cloud demand fuels Middle East 2020 IT spending
Spending on IaaS and SaaS jumps, but MENA enterprises still invest in on-premises data centres, Gartner reports.
Oracle opens cloud region in Jeddah, with more Gulf sites to come
More Oracle Gen 2 cloud data centres are on the way this year for Saudi Arabia and UAE.
South Africa IT spending to rise to $26.4 billion in 2020, IDC reports
Enterprise uptake of software and services fuels overall spending increase.
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