Cloudware boosts security, lowers costs

Centralised computing solves the problem of delivering cloud-based software safely, quickly and at low cost, says Vox Telecom’s Tapiwa Sawaya – and he predicts a surge in its popularity among corporates during the next 18 months. “Cloudware enables companies to...

Infor announces CloudSuite

Infor, a leading provider of business application software, has announced Infor CloudSuite, the first group of industry-specific application suites available on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud. Infor CloudSuite provides beautiful software with deep industry...

SA still tier one as Africa moves into cloud

Despite African countries’ uptake of the cloud seeming to outpace South Africa’s, Red Hat continues to view the country as tier one. Research by WorldWideWorx shows that, during 2014, 24% of companies in Kenya, 44% in Nigeria and 16% in South Africa intend...

Check Point, VMware secure private cloud

Check Point Software Technologies and VMware have announced a collaboration in which they will automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with...

Six steps to becoming a social business

With businesses today diving into the social space at a dizzying pace, Oracle Social Cloud and Altimeter Group have released a new e-book that details how organisations can evolve across an increasingly dynamic and competitive landscape and become socially enabled...

CommVault protects cloud data

CommVault’s Simpana 10 software platform has become the data protection platform of choice for more than 200 certified service providers, which provides cloud solutions to millions of client systems worldwide and protects hundreds of petabytes of data. The company...