Is your critical data secure in the cloud?

Storing data in the cloud makes sense and uptake is growing as more solution providers offer this option. However, how secure is sensitive financial and client information when it is backed up to and stored in the cloud? The good news is that vendors are putting...

Mobile cloud and the software-defined future

The mobile-cloud era has business and IT under tremendous pressure. It faces a number of challenges as it juggles maintenance and renovation of existing systems, whilst looking to the future and implementing new technology to support growing business needs, says Ian...

Hybrid solutions ease SMMEs’ load

In today’s connected world, no SMME can afford to ignore the benefits of cloud services that can help it to boost productivity, increase efficiency and reduce costs. Such services can free you of many of the complexities of looking after computer systems so that you...

NetApp outlines unbound cloud vision

Today’s IT climate is all about freedom. Cloud computing has completely re-modelled the face of the modern enterprise with many businesses at least partly if not fully virtualised. To realise the full potential of the cloud, cloud solutions need to be tailor-made for...

Transitioning to hybridised IT

There is a significant amount of industry buzz around cloud. According to analysts, 2014 will be the year when a majority of enterprises begin to transform their IT operations from a “build-operate” model to a “broker-provider” of IT services, says Mark Ridley,...

A checklist for cloud readiness

South African companies are continuing a steady migration to cloud services in the wake of more reliable bandwidth, a maturing market driven by large multinational cloud services providers and a better understanding of the value proposition of cloud services. But,...