Ganesh Bhat, Head of Data Centres, eHosting DataFort, discusses what best practice approach data centre managers should take to managing outdated equipment. Any industrial plant that runs for years lowers the efficiency. Data centres are the IT industry’s power house which is expected to run most efficiently. Data centres support an organisation’s mission critical infrastructure […]

Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President, Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Dell EMC, believes we are about to become immersed in a world of ‘smart living’ at home and ‘intelligent working’ in the workplace as we embark on the next era of human machine partnerships. Here he makes some insightful predictions not just about the […]

Marcio Saito, CTO of Opengear, provides his 2019 predictions for the datacentre landscape.  General IT (2019: another step in the move towards the edge) In general IT, there has been much talk in the past years about the reversal of the pendulum: If in the past decade IT complexity has moved to the core of […]

In May last year, Microsoft announced plans to launch two data centres in South Africa. Located in Johannesburg and Cape Town, these see the company targeting cloud services growth on the continent. These data centres will deliver the Microsoft Cloud, including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 to Africa. Lee Kuyper, COO of SilverBridge […]

Kevin Krige, Head of Datacentre and Cloud Service, BT in Africa, says the list of potential threats to businesses continues to grow. Today’s integrated digital networked economy – and as business operations increasingly depend heavily on IT and digital infrastructure – even a few hours of service disruption can have a devastating impact for most […]