A cloud ecosystem for every company

South Africa’s cloud-based infrastructure is growing rapidly, aided by a wave of new infrastructure providers targeting resellers. This means that cloud-based solutions are now a viable option for businesses of all sizes, says Cloud on Demand CEO Jonathan Kropf. “At...

2013 shook up IT and the cloud

In 2013, big companies in the cloud space faced downtime challenges, companies in the social media space were valued at costs seemingly much higher than they’re worth, and a superpower’s secrets were revealed to the world. “Four big events or trends in the IT space...

Enhancing the private cloud

Companies today are looking for solutions that offer better traction for their IT budgets, while providing agile, innovative and automated IT services both inside and outside of their organisations. One such solution to dynamically scale enterprise workloads and to...

Cloud computing brings massive benefits

Today, cloud computing generates a lot of hype; it’s both promising and scary. Businesses see its potential but also have many concerns – one of them being security. This is according to Johann Evans, chief technical officer of Cherry Olive, the unified data...

Corporate SA should adopt hybrid cloud

On 1 October, the Gartner Group released a report entitled Private Cloud Matures, Hybrid Cloud is Next. In it analyst Thomas Bittman says that 50% of enterprises will have a hybrid cloud solution by 2017 so they can enjoy the speed of provisioning, automatic response...

Cloud in Africa: the next big disruptor

The disruptive nature of cloud computing will have far-reaching effects across all continents and industries as global players in the industry scuffle for market share in emerging opportunities for small to medium (SME) enterprises, says Derek Kudsee, CEO at SAP...