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Altron Karabina expert on the impact of cloud service in South Africa

It is now nearly a year since Microsoft launched its two Azure data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Ryan Jamieson, Solutions and Innovation Officer at Altron Karabina, tells us that, in a perfect world, these would have resulted in an instantaneous uptake of the cloud, but these things do take time. Much of the […]


‘It’s better to move to the cloud, says Head of IaaS at Vox

Barry Kemp, Head of IaaS at Vox, believes South African businesses need to move to the cloud rather than storing data on-premise. We believe that it is better to move to the cloud than being on-premise. Any business in South Africa that is not looking at moving to the cloud is making a big mistake […]


Pure joins Google Cloud Anthos Ready Storage Initiative

Pure Storage continues to deliver on the promise of a modern data experience with expanded cloud-native collaboration. Pure Storage, the data solutions pioneer that enables faster customer innovation, has joined Google Cloud’s Anthos Ready Storage Initiative, having demonstrated that its solutions for data storage and data can be confidently deployed on the Anthos platform across […]


Veeam Availability Suite V10 advances data protection capabilities

With an increasing number of organisations failing to provide demands for uninterrupted access to data, many companies are now looking to embrace cloud data management to drive innovation across data centres and the cloud. With this in mind, Veeam has released its next generation of data backup with new Veeam Availability Suite V10 which includes […]


Boomi’s data integration platform offers next-level connectivity to IFS customers

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, has announced its new partnership with Boomi, a Dell Technologies business. The resulting technology stack combines best-in-class Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Field Service Management (FSM) into a ‘digital switchboard’ that unites industrial process expertise with cloud agility. Over the last three decades, the 4,000-strong […]


Experts discuss the benefits of moving public apps to an on-premise environment

The global findings of Nutanix’s second global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report found that 84% of respondents in South Africa (compared to 73% globally and 71% across EMEA) are either moving public apps back to on-premise environments or planning to do so. Industry experts discuss these results in more detail. Ian Jansen […]


Scality predictions for the data storage industry

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  […]


Mastering the complexity of multi-cloud in 2020

As enterprises’ demands look set to continue maturing this year, they are better able to distinguish between cloud platforms and identify which ones work best for their applications. “It’s no longer about moving to cloud, it’s about which cloud,” said Andrew Cruise, Managing Director at Routed, Africa’s only vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider. “Now that […]


Fortinet further expands integration with Amdocs for secure SD-WAN services

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the integration of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN with Amdocs’ extensible orchestration solution to empower service providers to deliver managed SD-WAN and security services across customer premises, data centres and the cloud, while reducing deployment and operational costs. The ability of service providers to […]


Is the industry on the Edge of a great opportunity?

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 […]


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