No More Ransom goes global

Just three months after the successful launch of the No More Ransom project, law enforcement agencies from a further 13 countries have signed up to fight ransomware together with the private sector. The new members are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia,...

Tackling the country’s drought

South Africa is on the brink of a catastrophe. We are at the point of no return. If we do not work with government to drastically reduce our water usage in the next two weeks, it will have a massive, “never-seen-before” impact on how we live our lives, or...

The future is bright for Africa …

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – African organisations will arguably see the greatest benefit from new technologies and services announced by VMware over the last few days. Matthew Kibby, regional director: sub-Saharan Africa at VMware, believes...

Why VMware Cloud on AWS is a big deal

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – The data centre has seen a lot of changes since VMware first commercialised virtualisation just a few years ago – and now the many benefits associated with those changes can be felt in the cloud as well....

Services assist with seamless cloud management

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – It’s just 10 years since cloud computing was first mooted as a commercial possibility, with one of its many selling points the fact that it relieves the user company from many of the tedious, time-consuming and...

Cross-cloud ties IT environments together

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2016 in Barcelona – Vmware has launched what it calls the next stage in the software-defined data centre (SDDC) journey, going one step beyond hybrid cloud with its Cross-Cloud Architecture. The Cross-Cloud Architecture brings...