Leading open source technology and services provider, Obsidian Systems, in partnership with established operators Atlassian, Redis Labs, Cloudera and Autumn Leaf, is a sponsor at the 2019 AWS Summit scheduled for July 11 in Cape Town. Obsidian will present to delegates on how it can help teams to get their code to AWS, the best […]

For this month’s Editor’s Question, we asked industry experts ‘how has the cloud impacted data centres?’. Here’s what they had to say… Scott Gordon, (CISSP) CMO, Pulse Secure Data centres must up security to ride the hybrid wave In Q318, for the first time, quarterly vendor revenues from IT infrastructure product sales into cloud environments […]

Storex, specialists in multi-vendor infrastructure lifecycle extension management, says that on average, most displaced OEM estates have not even reached 40% of the potential capacity before being replaced. Jan Beukes, CEO and founder, says that throughout the Middle East and Africa, many organisations have a surplus of infrastructure capacity that is not being optimised properly. […]

An agreement has been reached between fonYou and a mobile operator in Egypt to deploy its iCarrier Data platform for the distribution of hyper-personalised airtime, data bundles and other carrier products. It is a new-generation platform that enables mobile carriers to predict and optimise their real-time responses to customer needs, even when they run out […]

Morten Illum, VP of EMEA, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, stresses the importance of The Edge which is set to transform existing business models – allowing enterprises to create user experiences that are faster and more dynamic. He tells us that Edge computing technologies make it possible for every organisation to provide a radically […]

Schneider Electric, a leader in the Digital Transformation of energy management and automation, has announced its EcoStruxure Ready HyperPod system has won ‘Data Centre Design and Build Product of the Year’ at the Electrical Review Awards 2019. The award recognises the company for innovation within the data centre infrastructure market and further highlights the solution […]

Organisations across the region are embarking on data centre modernisation projects in a bid to keep pace with the evolving technological landscape. Mark O’Keefe, Director of Architecture at CyrusOne, talks us through some of the trends shaping this modernisation and offers best practice advice to those progressing their own efforts.  What is driving the need […]

A leading bank in Ethiopia has digitally innovated its business thanks to the help of VMware. The Bank of Abyssinia (BOA) needed to scale and improve both its production and disaster recovery environments, and be a more digitally inclusive business, but was inhibited by exorbitant costs of new equipment and long delivery cycles. Established in […]

Juniper Networks, an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, has announced that Colruyt Group, one of the largest retailers in Belgium and France, has deployed Juniper Networks’ solutions to improve its data connectivity in response to exponential growth in network traffic. Colruyt Group consists of more than 40 brands for consumers and businesses, […]

Chris Huggett, Senior Vice President, EMEA and India at Sungard AS, tells us how public cloud is creating new opportunities for digitisation due to the amount of data the public sector holds within the UK. The effects could be extremely positive on society if the data is exercised to its full potential. Spending £100 million […]