The death of cloud limitations

The Cloud Services division of IT service management giant EOH has unveiled CloudBolt, an agnostic cloud solution that offers a single pane of glass through which cloud customers can govern the use, performance and delivery of all their cloud services, irrespective of...

Overcoming the barriers to cloud success

The notion of ‘digital business transformation’ remains a white-hot theme among boardrooms around South Africa, and the broader continent. Andre Muzerie, Oracle business practice head at Wipro Africa, discusses the issue. An organisation may be looking to...

Cloud services will spur SA digitisation

The launch of various local cloud platforms is a defining moment in the digitisation of companies and governments across the continent, writes Peter Reid, executive head of Intervate South Africa. Microsoft recently announced that its Microsoft Cloud would be...

2017 a tipping point for cloud

By 2020, nine out of 10 organisations will utilise hybrid cloud infrastructure, according to Gartner[1]. With cloud spending in this area rising faster than ever before, and data centre outsourcing on the decline, 2017 is set to be a tipping point for IaaS adoption....

Coming to grips with the enterprise cloud

At present, conversations in IT organisations are centred on the topic of “enterprise cloud”. In the simplest terms, enterprise cloud is cloud infrastructure designed to deliver the same agility as the public cloud, but within the enterprise data centre. At the top of...

One component that no cloud solution can do without

Enterprises today no longer question whether or not they should move to cloud. CIOs, CTOs, IT directors and executives need no convincing about the benefits that cloud solutions bring. Economy, efficiency, flexibility, redundancy, scalability and even security is now...