Jun 8, 2017
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...
Jun 5, 2017
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...
May 31, 2017
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....
May 15, 2017
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...
May 8, 2017
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...
Apr 28, 2017
Placing all your eggs in one cloud can be a problem, writes Brendan McAravey, country manager of Citrix South Africa. We can all agree that cloud has practically become a part of our everyday lives, whether you’re streaming your favourite Netflix shows, or even...