Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced the findings of its second global Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with adopting private, hybrid and public clouds. The new report found enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud architectures, with respondents reporting steady and substantial hybrid deployment […]

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, is hosting its annual .NEXT on Tour with the theme ‘Invisible Clouds, Visible IT’ at the Fairmont Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 18 2019. The conference will focus on helping enterprises in the Kingdom free themselves from the complexity and cost of legacy IT and embrace the power […]

Amazon Web Services has announced it will open an infrastructure region in Spain. The new AWS Europe (Spain) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch and will be AWS’s seventh region in Europe, joining existing regions in Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and the upcoming Milan region launching in early 2020. The Spain Region is expected to open late 2022 or early 2023. Currently, […]

As cloud providers ramp up their presence in the Middle East, organisations are looking to utilise multi cloud models for business benefits. But this presents new challenges. Claude Schuck, Regional Manager, Middle East at Veeam tells us why organisations should act now to enable a strong digital foundation, ensuring data is backed up and always […]

Stagecoach, one of the UK’s biggest bus and coach operators, has announced it is replacing its legacy WAN infrastructure with a new software-defined network (SD-WAN) -based architecture provided by Node4 – the cloud, data centre and communications solutions provider. This upgraded connectivity will enable Stagecoach to support both business growth and its increased adoption of […]

Routed, a vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, has achieved VMware Cloud Verified Status. As the first company on the African continent to attain this status, Routed is among an elite group of highly skilled providers with the ability to operate at this high level of cloud certification. The Cloud Verified badge signals to customers that […]

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 […]

GTT Communications, a leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, has announced the upgrade of its fibre network across several of its European routes. The network upgrades enhance the capacity and performance capability of GTT’s Tier 1 global IP network footprint for its enterprise and carrier clients. GTT has upgraded routes that connect network […]

Megaport, a leading global, Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, has announced an expanded service footprint and additional capabilities for its flagship virtual routing service, Megaport Cloud Router (MCR), which enables on-demand private connectivity at Layer 3 from 19 key metro routing zones throughout the world. Megaport is a global interconnection fabric that has integrated […]

Infortrend Technology, an industry leading enterprise storage provider, has announced that it has installed all-flash array storage solutions at e-shelter, one of the largest data centres in Europe. The partnership with e-shelter’s innovation lab is for end-users and partners to evaluate Infortrend’s leading Edge technologies together with other innovations from hardware and cloud technology providers. From October 2019, […]