While the march to the cloud continues, business decision-makers are recognising that such a complex migration cannot happen overnight. Here, Julian Thomas, Principle Consultant at South Africa-based data solutions specialist, the PBT Group, talks to us about some of the influencing factors to a more slow-paced transition. The tech industry has seen a whirlwind of […]

Wasabi, a cloud storage company, has announced the opening of its first European data centre based in Amsterdam. The new data centre will accommodate Wasabi’s accelerating growth in the EU region, aiming to bring affordable, fast, enterprise class cloud storage closer to the company’s European customer base. With an EU data centre, European users will […]

Microsoft’s first data centres in Africa are now open to customers, with the general availability of Microsoft Azure from new cloud regions in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The investment will drive significant growth, in line with both the continent’s Digital Transformation objectives and the realisation of new economic opportunities. The launch also makes Microsoft the […]

Hutchinson Networks, the Edinburgh-based network specialist, has developed a robust and powerful systems tool called Fabrix Secure Analytics (FSA). Powered by Cisco Tetration Analytics and its own Fabrix cloud platform, FSA adds further network application security for organisations considering data centre migration or those that need to build dynamic security policy models. The solution combines […]

SBV Services stops millions of attacks while protecting cash in transit, employees, and data with Trend Micro. Overview SBV Services is a leading provider of customised cash services and solutions to reserve and commercial banks, ATMs, and retail environments. Founded in South Africa in 1986, SBV recently expanded its footprint into other African countries and is […]

Cloudian has announced that Systemec, a Managed Services Provider (MSP) specialising in healthcare and logistics in the Netherlands and Germany, has deployed Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage platform to address the backup challenges of growing data volumes. Cloudian enables Systemec to protect data from multiple applications, prevent the scheduling problems it previously faced and achieve increased […]

As more and more companies are having to carefully decide where to store their data, especially with the uncertainty of Brexit, Germany is seemingly dominating the data centre market. Intelligent CIO Europe hears from Philip van der Wilt, SVP, GM EMEA, ServiceNow, on why the company chose to further expand business into the country. ServiceNow […]

Pure delivers NVMe-oF RoCE with DirectFlash Fabric to help enterprises unify cloud.  Pure Storage has announced it has added powerful new DirectFlash Fabric capability for end-to-end NVMe and NVMe-oF support in Purity 5.2, the software-defined engine of its FlashArray//X products. The new capability further extends Pure’s moves to empower customers to approach hybrid cloud with […]

Danie Marais, Director of Product Management at Redstor, will reveal how a new technology developed in South Africa is helping organisations comply with regulations when he addresses the ITWeb Governance, Risk and Compliance conference. As data grows and becomes decentralised in a multi-cloud world, making it difficult to keep track of where it all exists, […]

Redstor, a leading cloud data management SaaS business with technology developed in South Africa, is expanding operations by adding a new data centre in Johannesburg. The decision to take up a presence in Teraco Data Environments, Isando, follows unprecedented demand for the company’s disruptive data management platform. Paul Evans, CEO and co-founder of Redstor, said: […]