Backup Exec 16 launches in SA

Official Veritas South African distributor, Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has announced the immediate availability of Veritas Technologies’ unified backup and recovery solution, Backup Exec 16. With over 2,2-million customers, Backup Exec has over the last...

NetApp debuts hybrid cloud solutions

NetApp has announced new data fabric solutions and services that maximize control and improve the secure movement of data across the hybrid cloud. The company also introduced new versions of NetApp AltaVault, StorageGRID Webscale, and SnapCenter technologies to help...

Veeam aims to dominate Office 365 backup and availability

Last year, more than 205-billion emails were sent each day and this will rise by 5% in 2016, which proves that email remains a cornerstone of modern communications and its importance cannot be underestimated. With this, Veeam Software has announced that initial...

Western Digital redesigns iconic hard drives

Western Digital has introduced modern and innovative redesigns of its My Passport, My Passport for Mac, and My Book hard drive lines, which have been highly recognised leading sellers for more than a decade. In partnership with fuseproject, an award-winning industrial...

IBM offers hybrid cloud data store

IBM is introducing a new cloud object storage service that redefines the security, availability and economics of storing, managing and accessing massive amounts of digital information across hybrid clouds. The company’s new IBM Cloud Object Storage offering...

Digitisation, custom SaaS prove their worth in Africa

According to Gartner, SaaS shows no signs of decline, with even the smallest SaaS segment seeing a compound annual growth rate of 19,7% through 2019. Angus Herringer, joint Head of financial services at e4, says the trend is definitely growing in Africa. “We...