The future of business lies in the cloud

The evolution of cloud-based technology has dramatically changed the business landscape in the past few years, and the latest developments in technology are set to create even further disruption, says Peter Reid, SharePoint Solutions Head at Intervate, a T-Systems...

The unexpected costs of moving to the cloud

A few years ago, companies thought the cloud might help save on costs. No doubt everyone recalls the plethora of articles with titles such as: “How to save time and money in the cloud” or “Cloud Computing can generate massive savings”, says...

Ensure your cloud business is recoverable

If the recent outages by large local service providers is anything to go by, then you need to ensure that your business data that is hosted in the cloud is secure, backed up and recoverable. It is with this that local cloud platform and cloud products distributor...

Key criteria for hosted business continuity

The adoption of cloud computing models is revolutionising how IT is procured and used – and also how organisations ensure business continuity. However, says Sasha Malic, head of Availability and Hosting Services at ContinuitySA, the two should not be confused....

Personal beats public cloud

Consumers today generate more digital content than ever before, on a wide range of different devices. From music, television series and movie downloads to documents, emails and thousands of photographs, on computers, notebooks, tablets and smartphones, the volume and...

Cloud as an enabler of enterprise growth

We live in a world where we have unprecedented access to computing power: a developer sitting in a café anywhere in our region can now access the same computing power as a Fortune 500 company. This is enabled by the cloud: an almost infinite amount of computing...