Using cloud effectively for disaster recovery

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...

Privacy concerns and the cloud

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...

SA leapfrogs to IaaS

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...

Managing hybrid, multi-cloud environments

The vast majority of companies have moved at least parts of their business to the cloud. The benefits in terms of cost savings, improved operations and similar are too great to ignore. Some have gone either a public or private cloud route, but most have a hybrid...

Plotting the customer journey to the cloud

According to market research firm Gartner, in its Predicts 2017: Cloud Computing Enters Its Second Decade report, published in December 2016, organisations are increasingly moving beyond just experimenting with cloud, to now seeking strategic relationships with...

Cloud or on-premise for VoIP?

VoIP systems are increasingly popular in digitally-driven businesses, and offer huge advantages in the way of cost savings, improved efficiency, and offering an overall better customer and employee experience. Buying a VoIP telecoms system however can be challenging,...