Dell EMC has announced new and enhanced capabilities to the Dell EMC Data Domain and Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) portfolio of backup storage appliances designed to offer organisations real-world flexibility and value with expanded multi-cloud capabilities and improved performance. The enhancements also provide mid-sized organisations and remote offices of larger organisations with more choice and […]
Mike Bushong, Vice President, Enterprise and Cloud Marketing, Juniper Networks, talks us through the Juniper Networks approach to ensuring top to bottom success in the enterprise WAN. Multi cloud has changed the world and as much as the transition is impacting the inside of the modern data centre, it is reshaping the networks between them. […]
Oracle has announced the immediate availability of its new data centre in Abu Dhabi, which will offer public cloud applications services to customers in the UAE and wider Middle East. The Abu Dhabi data centre will support the rapid adoption of Oracle Cloud in the UAE and act as a key catalyst for the implementation […]
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: […]
Cisco has announced a new architecture that extends the data centre to everywhere that data lives and everywhere applications are deployed. The company has highlighted that application innovation is at the heart of the digital economy. A new era of apps is redefining what data centres are and need to be capable of supporting. Because […]
Sachin Bhardwaj, eHosting DataFort, Director, Marketing and Business Development, discusses how data centre managers can ensure cyber-resilience. The increasing use of Big Data and the onset of the Internet of Things has only added to the intensity of the need to prioritise cybersecurity within data centres. One is also mindful of the ongoing regulations and […]
A10 Networks, a leading provider of intelligent and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the availability of its cloud-native Application Delivery solution. This includes the Harmony Controller, vThunder ADC and Lightning ADC in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. A10’s customers can now take advantage of the […]
Pinakin Patel, Head of Solutions Engineering at MapR, explores the growing trend towards a new type of data middleware – aka ‘dataware’ – that is designed to do for data what middleware did for operating systems and applications. Information Technology has an overriding progression centred on performance and efficiency. The mainframes of the 1970s moved to […]
Teraco Data Environments, a leading provider of colocation data centre infrastructure in Africa, has announced that Berkshire Partners LLC, a Boston-based investment firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in the company. The Permira funds, an existing shareholder, will remain a significant investor. Based in Johannesburg and established in 2008, […]
Jon Lucas, Director at Hyve Managed Hosting, discusses some of the key factors which determine the locations of data centres. With the amount of data being created rapidly growing and affecting businesses of all sizes, here are the ‘four C’s’ that should be noted when deciding where to locate a physical data centre. 1) Connectivity […]
