IT changes focus in IoT world

Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice-president, Global Services, Solutions and Support at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) talks about cloud transformation and data expansion driving the need for businesses to embrace a new strategy. The cloud transformation and exponential...

Questions to ask your cloud backup provider

Data backup is a little like buying car insurance. You may never need to claim but it is statistically likely that you may have to. When that happens, you want a quick settlement so that you can get back on the road or, in the case of data backup and recovery, get...

Cloud myths debunked

Cloud computing has been on the IT agenda of most enterprises for the past few years, says Servaas Venter, country manager, EMC Southern Africa. However, as you might expect of an emerging technology, it’s evolving fast and, as a result, what some businesses might...

IT changes focus in IoT world

Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice-president, Global Services, Solutions and Support at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) talks about cloud transformation and data expansion driving the need for businesses to embrace a new strategy. The cloud transformation and exponential...

How to embrace the hybrid enterprise

Even though the cloud has brought many benefits to businesses: providing access to data when and where we want, the ability to sync our mobile devices and the ability to collaborate in realtime, it has also created new challenges for business leaders. With its growth...

A cloud of your own

In a world where consumers often own multiple connected devices, from tablets and notebooks to smartphones – all of which are used to create and consume a variety of media – data storage has become a growing challenge, says Michael Watts, business unit...