Assaad El Saadi, Regional Director – Middle East, Pure Storage, says 2020 looks to be the year that most enterprises evolve their private and hybrid cloud platforms beyond VMs, deploying an enterprise-wide container strategy. Customers will demand a subscription to innovation with As-a-Service business models As-a-Service models have existed since the beginning of public cloud. […]

It has been several months since the launch of the two Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa. And as expected, this has resulted in many organisations looking for ways to move their on-premise data environments to the cloud. Reghard van Jaarsveld, Engagement Manager, Decision Inc, looks at what has changed to see this influx […]

With the earning potential of Edge computing making itself clear, Jacob Chacko, Regional Business Head – Middle East at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise, explains why delivering on it will inevitably mean the C-suite spending progressively greater amounts of time truly understanding the IT capabilities being delivered. IT teams have been under pressure to introduce […]

To help Africa realise the benefits of the data economy, more data centres in the region are urgently needed. However, building data centres starts with enabling access to the ICT infrastructure and ecosystems, and there are several barriers Africa faces.  “All of the big trends that are shaping economies today, from cloud data centres,  smart […]

Thanks to the arrival of Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa, it is expected that more born-in-the-cloud organisations will start taking root here. And with smaller companies now finding it easier to migrate to an online environment, Dana Cinman, Product Specialist at Obsidian Systems, says these are exciting times for solution providers. Previously, businesses […]

Mark Chadwick, Head of Cloud Services, Datacentrix, looks at what organisations should be looking for in an IaaS provider. The term ‘Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)’ has become practically synonymous with ‘cloud’. The difference? Cloud can be looked at as a location and on-demand consumption model, while IaaS delivers the actual cloud computing infrastructure, facilitating […]

The Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) combines exceptional performance with unprecedented flexibility, enabling IT assets and IT organisations to operate and change at the speed of business. Accelerating business demands are driving rapid Digital Transformation in organisations across the globe, there is a massive push for business and IT to align around applications that deliver modern […]

Globally, 85% of enterprises are operating in a multi-cloud environment with most of the balance planning on embracing this methodology by 2021. Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager, Africa, at Veeam, says that, in South Africa, the recent arrival of multinational data centres, as well as carrier and cloud neutral data centres, means that expectations […]

Big data is seeing organisations becoming more mindful of aligning their data management practices with newer paradigms such as data lakes, elastic and cluster computing, and real-time data. Stefan Kruger and Peter Gaertner, senior data architects at Decision Inc, say that the cloud provides an environment capable of managing the volume and scale required to […]

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