Remote infrastructure management

Oct 29, 2014

For many South African firms, making the giant leap to a fully-hosted, fully-outsourced cloud environment is still a daunting idea. Compared with their peers in the US or Europe, local organisations are subject to generally poorer connectivity, longer asset renewal...

Five cloud misconceptions affecting business

Oct 27, 2014

In our developing economy, the potential benefits of cloud-based products, particularly for SMMEs, cannot be ignored. Yet for many a small business owner, the concept of “the cloud” is still a foggy haze.

How the cloud helps SMEs tidy up the IT mess

Oct 24, 2014

Cloud backup provider IronTree estimates that one in five South African small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) experience some form of data loss once a year, most commonly as a result of accidents and natural disasters, data corruption, or theft of computing...

Benefits of migrating to the cloud

Oct 5, 2014

From providing scalability on demand, to empowering the mobility of the workforce, cloud computing offers a host of benefits to both organisations and users, says Francois Smith, Dell Enterprise field marketing manager for South Africa. The business case for adopting...

Desktop PC market in terminal decline

Oct 2, 2014

The continued decline of South Africa’s PC market signals the end of the desktop computing era, says Brian Timperley of CloudGate — and the question of what will ultimately replace it remains wide open. “IDC claimed recently that the PC market in Africa and the...

Hybrid cloud is the future of enterprise IT

Sep 18, 2014

Cloud computing is universally accepted as one of the major disruptive forces impacting IT today. But few enterprises are ready to migrate all their data and applications to a public cloud. With key concerns including latency, security and control over critical data...