Dec 1, 2020
Once something that required evangelism and education, cloud computing has become increasingly pervasive in the South African business world. By Matt Surkont, CEO of BlueSky In fact, a 2019 survey found that 77% of businesses are using cloud services of some kind in...
Nov 24, 2020
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has become an attractive option for organisations looking to simplify the increasing complexity of managing their IT and data in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This can at least partly be attributed to the pandemic and...
Nov 23, 2020
We aren’t putting modern applications on mainframes. Nor should we be shirking one cloud provider because another says they don’t believe in the multi-cloud. By Craigh Stuart, systems engineering manager: SADC & WECA at Nutanix If we have taken any...
Nov 17, 2020
Every year, companies spend millions of rands mirroring their IT operations as a precaution against the possibility that their main data centre will fail. By Niël Malan, managing partner at Tangent Solutions The entire system is often replicated in a second physical...
Nov 16, 2020
Dolf Snyman, CA Southern Africa, BU Lead: Broadcom Mainframe Solutions, explains how mastering the increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud IT architecture – inclusive of the mainframe – is fundamental to business success. The difficulty lies in...
Nov 10, 2020
Recent events have forced CISOs across all industries to rethink and refine their business continuity plans, write Alain Sanchez and Joe Robertson, chief information security officers at Fortinet. Not only did the pandemic force organizations to transform their...
