Xperien is the first IT Asset Disposal (ITAD) company in South Africa to achieve the globally recognised Blancco ITAD Certification. Data erasure product certifications are not easy to achieve, it’s a process in which ITAD engineers study and complete the product certification course. Blancco is global leader in data erasure, with certified erasure solutions across […]

Network specialists, three6five has announced details of a managed services toolkit, that it believes will reshape the managed services market. “What we have seen from other large IT networking and security players is a very reactive managed services offering, invariably backed by a big master service agreement that only covers monitoring, break and replacement and […]

Mining organisation, Assmang, is rolling out a ground-breaking mobile data centre solution at its Khumani Iron Ore Mine in the Northern Cape province to meet its fast-growing information storage requirements. The solution was proposed, designed and deployed by Infrasol, Datacentrix’s infrastructure design and deployment business unit. Ferdi Kirsten, Manager: Information Technology at Assmang Khumani, explains […]

Thought leadership piece from Karl Reed, Chief Solutions Officer at Elingo. The arrival of multinational data centres has seen local organisations increasingly looking at ways of embracing cloud services and adapting their strategies to facilitate an easier transition into this environment. Thanks to the more widespread availability of fibre and faster mobile connectivity offerings such […]

A route that would normally take more than 60 hours to drive in a car can now be done in about 31 milliseconds on the new Paratus Africa fibre network that stretches from the West coast to the East coast of Africa. The Trans-Kalahari Fiber (TKF) network extends 4,160 kilometres from the West Africa Cable […]

The recent launch of multinational data centres in South Africa and the pipeline of new ones arriving in the next few years will fundamentally change the cloud market in the country. Ralph Berndt, Sales and Marketing Director at Syrex, believes organisations who have been previously undecided about the cloud have now woken up to its […]

A Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDA) Africa 2019 event is to take place at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton, South Africa, this Wednesday and Thursday (July 17-18). Now in its fourth year, the theme for this year’s event is ‘moving towards a data-driven and data-centric future.’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered the driving force […]

Google has introduced Equiano, a new private subsea cable that will connect Africa with Europe. Once complete, Equiano will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa, between Portugal and South Africa, with branching units along the way that can be used to extend connectivity to additional African countries. The first […]

As one of South Africa’s leading retailers, the TFG Group needed a robust storage infrastructure to guarantee high-performance and 24/7 availability of applications for forecasting and customer management. By partnering with Pure Storage, TFG now has a modern storage infrastructure that is reliable and offers sub-millisecond latencies. In addition, with the Pure Evergreen Storage business […]

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 […]