Many organisations believe that, once their data is in the cloud, their worries are over. Simon Hwang, APAC President from Synology, however gives convincing reasons for organisations to invest in a cloud backup solution to create a fool-proof situation around their data. As a region, the Middle East has its own set of compliances and […]
UK-based managed service provider, Six Degrees, has announced that public sector customers will be able to benefit from a comprehensive range of cloud services offered via the G-Cloud 11 framework. Six Degrees has added 54 new services to G-Cloud 11, taking the total number of services offered through the framework to 80. Significantly, Six Degrees […]
Rackspace has supported the migration of loveholidays, the UK’s fastest growing online travel agency, to Google Cloud Platform in under six months. By designing a scalable base on Google Cloud, the new infrastructure now allows loveholidays to handle seven-fold more partner traffic. In an industry where customer experience is paramount, loveholidays has built a competitive […]
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 […]
Atos, a global leader in Digital Transformation, has strengthened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud with two high-performance regional extensions of existing Google Cloud data centres in Frankfurt (Germany) and Ashburn VA (North America), to support Oracle database customers. These two regional extensions will be equipped with Atos’ high-performance BullSequana S servers and will enable […]
Thunder containers solutions enhance application performance and security for multi-cloud environments A10 Networks has announced a cloud-ready, light-weight set of container-based solutions to provide secure application services. They offer the industry’s highest performing container solutions with up to 200 Gbps of throughput for A10 Networks’ Thunder Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Carrier-Grade Networking (CGN) and Convergent Firewall […]
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. […]
Microsoft has launched new cloud regions in Abu Dhabi and Dubai that will accelerate Digital Transformation to help enable job creation, entrepreneurship and economic growth across the Middle East. Data residency in the UAE will help enable government organisations and enterprises to comply with in-country regulatory frameworks and increase the opportunities for cloud adoption. Microsoft […]
The cloud, IoT and even hyperconverged infrastructure require a robust and solid network to relay the information to and from the data centre they are connected to. But an old, legacy network can severely hamper this and lead to downtime and sub-standard connections, which is why Netshield South Africa is offering businesses an alternative, to […]
