Globally, 85% of enterprises are operating in a multi-cloud environment with most of the balance planning on embracing this methodology by 2021. Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager, Africa, at Veeam, says that, in South Africa, the recent arrival of multinational data centres, as well as carrier and cloud neutral data centres, means that expectations […]

Faster, more scalable, easier to manage… as data centres evolve towards near organic levels of complexity, nature may have lessons for the IT industry. Industry experts from Mellanox Technologies, Apstra and NetFoundry offer their insights into the key trends set to shape the data centre of the future.  Enterprise IT looks with envy at the […]

Intent-based networking offers significant advantages to modern infrastructure teams. But how close are we to the self-operating network? Mansour Karam, CEO of Apstra, unravels the rise of intent-based networks and explores whether we can yet trust the most advanced networks to apply their own corrective actions. ‘Intent-based’ increased in popularity in 2018, but how much […]

Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet, discusses how organisations can leverage the performance and flexibility of the cloud without compromising visibility or security.  Attacking web applications is the most common tactic used in data breaches, accounting for 52% of compromises. This trend has been true for several years in a row. And due to […]