Nov 16, 2017
It’s all about the ecosystem, writes Kabelo Makwane, MD of Accenture South Africa’s Cloud First business ‘Lift-and-shift’ — the classic approach to cloud migration — means this: take all your existing IT structures, procedures and...
Nov 7, 2017
Data is essential to the smooth operation of any business, and the protection and backing up of that data is just as critical. Most organisations have — or should have – a data protection and business continuity policy in place. However, this needs to be...
Oct 12, 2017
An office that can’t be taken with you isn’t just stuck geographically, it’s stuck in the past. Cloud computing is transforming the business landscape, and it’s time you took the leap and digitised your office. Rob Lith, business development...
Oct 10, 2017
Mike Rees, Commvault territory account manager for South Africa, examines what questions companies need to ask before delving into disaster recovery in the clud. Disaster recovery (DR) is synonymous with cost and layers of complexity but cloud — together with a...
Sep 28, 2017
In this age of big data, it is easy to get swept up in the excitement of the opportunities that real-time analysis and insights can provide insurers. Yet, for all these benefits, the elephant in the room remains the issue of privacy and what should be done to...
Sep 27, 2017
Andrew Cruise, MD of vendor neutral cloud hosting platform provider Routed, says that almost all South African businesses now have a cloud strategy. While the adoption curve remains at the beginning stages, especially for internal apps, he says that South...
