Shift from hybrid by mistake to hybrid by design 

Why are an increasing number of South African businesses making the costly move of shifting their workloads back on-premises? Michael Langeveld, head of technology and business development at HPE Emirates and Africa, provides key insights. The first decade or so of...

PMT™ expands Emerald value-added service platform into the cloud

Pattern Matched Technologies™ (PMT) will be making its Emerald™ Realtime value-added service distribution platform available to customers in Africa as a cloud-based service. The solutions developer is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and First Distribution...

The complexity of data sovereignty in a multi-polar world

The importance of data sovereignty and security creates complexity in a world where sharing such information across borders generates huge social and economic benefits, writes Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed. It is clear that in the digital age, data sovereignty is...
How to make going hybrid a pleasure

How to make going hybrid a pleasure

Workers in the post-Covid economy are faced with a number of challenges, most notably the ability to connect to the office and work from anywhere at any time. Human capital management and wellness specialist consultancy Sensory Intelligence Consulting has compiled a...

Do we need another cloud?

Amazon Web Services launched its cloud services in 2006, followed shortly by Microsoft’s Azure offering in 2010. Three years later, the word ‘hyperscaler’ entered our lexicon – meaning large cloud service providers that can provide offerings...

Mastering the multi-cloud

Spurred on by the pandemic, many organisations greatly accelerated their digital transformation plans over the past three years. Digital transformation became an existential necessity, which entailed migrating to or more fully adopting the cloud. By Bertrandt Delport,...