How secure is data in a cloud?

Business leaders need to optimise and grow their businesses and cloud can certainly reduce costs and improve inefficiencies. However, how secure is data in the cloud? A concern for any company is giving up control of its data to a third party. By outsourcing file and...

Cloud brokerages an invaluable business tool

All businesses that are embarking on a cloud journey are realising that it’s not as straightforward as it may seem. Multiple cloud service providers means managing many relationships, which can be complex as well as inefficient. Businesses need help to manage...

SD-WAN takes on the cloud

The software defined wide-area network (SD-WANs) has captured the attention of the global networking segment. Value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited, has recently positioned itself in the emerging SD-WAN market as the sole distributor for Silver Peak, the global...

Which SaaS is better for your business?

Experts have long debated the merits and drawbacks between multi-tenant and single-tenant SaaS architectures. Multi-tenant vendors tout and promote their model, saying it offers efficiencies in terms of IT management, cost cutting, and scale. Single-tenancy vendors...

Five key questions to ask before migrating to cloud

Migrating applications to the cloud offers incredible opportunities that can make your business more versatile and efficient. Collaboration is often easier with the cloud, for example, and it can make disaster recovery a breeze, writes Sven Hammar, CSO of Apica...

The cloud is here: what happens next?

Go back a few years and cloud was very different. It mainly existed in name, hanging on the lips of vendors and the IT channel. Today that has flipped nearly 180 degrees … “When we started talking about cloud, we spoke about the journey to the cloud....