Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced a partnership with Udacity, the global online learning platform, resulting in a new hybrid cloud nanodegree programme. This programme will enhance learning opportunities in the emerging cloud technologies market that are essential for organisations to uplevel their IT infrastructure. As part of the collaboration, Nutanix will […]

First Technology Digital, South Africa’s preferred partner for Digital Transformation, digital workplaces and Artificial Intelligence, has been successful in its attainment of Gold-level status for the Microsoft DevOps competency. This latest achievement sees the company adding to its existing Gold cloud platform expertise, which currently includes application development, collaboration and content, data analytics, and datacentre […]

As global data traffic increases with the rising number of connected devices, data centres are facing growing challenges regarding demand for cloud access, processing capability, storage and transport bandwidth. Matt Pincus, Managing Director for EMEA and India at AddOn Networks, offers his advice for how businesses can improve their approach to operate more efficiently. Predictions […]

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced the adoption of its software by Total Gas & Power, one of the UK’s pre-eminent gas and electricity suppliers to industrial, commercial, public sector and business customers. The solution has placed the company on track to develop a single streamlined architecture, while reducing operational overheads, improving […]

As this year takes hold, we are beginning to see some interesting trends developing in the data centre sector. Paul Speciale, Chief Product Officer, Scality, predicts the evolutions he expects to take place in storage at the Edge, multi-cloud, Digital Transformation, data breaches and sustainability.   Object storage at the Edge will be on flash  […]

The term ‘Edge Computing’ is now widely used among business leaders as we discover more about its underlying potential. Stephen Whatling, Chairman at Business Critical Solutions, discusses how Edge Computing is contributing to the development of the data centre landscape to support the growing demand for connectivity and availability. The changing landscape The data centre […]

Microsoft has announced plans to establish the company’s first cloud region in Israel to deliver its intelligent, trusted cloud services through a local data centre region. This investment expands the Microsoft global cloud infrastructure to 56 cloud regions in 21 countries, with the new Israel region anticipated to be available starting with Microsoft Azure in […]

Improving network agility is a must for IT users and organisations need to understand the core components of making agility a reality in networking. Paul Ruelas, Senior Director Product Management, GTT, explains how organisations can achieve first mover advantage and what it means for an organisation to be agile.  Today’s fast-moving digital age has created […]

Vincent Lavergne, RVP of System Engineering at F5 Networks, suggests some New Year’s resolutions for IT leaders to ensure successful transformation in 2020. Without wheeling out all the usual clichés, 2019 has been another whirlwind of disruptive innovation and opportunity – with plenty of challenges to tackle and circumvent along the way. The threat landscape […]

As the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market continues to grow exponentially, the next big frontier for HCI now sits at the Edge of the network. Phil White, CTO, Scale Computing tells us why it’s time for HCI to embrace and include Edge Computing to enable the growth of AI. It is unsurprising that the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) […]