Business continuity planning essential

Business continuity planning – how to carry on operating even after a disaster – is still often thought of an expensive exercise that only large corporates can afford, says Warren Olivier of Veeam.  “But it’s now easier than ever before, and affordable for...

Go Agile for continuous delivery

Continuous delivery is a software-development paradigm that aims to put business requirements in control of the process. It thus recognises the fact that businesses rely on software for competitive advantage, and thus that software development has to be achieved in...

Soarsoft focuses on information governance

Information volumes continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, particularly randomly generated and unstructured data belonging to the modern information worker. This is also a result of the way we interact and transact with the many new business and electronic...

Freddy Hirsch rolls out Integr8 solution

Africa’s leading food ingredients manufacturer, the Freddy Hirsch Group, has chosen Integr8 to manage its ICT environment and implement innovative solutions to facilitate the upgrade of current structures, roles and responsibilities. The move forms part of Freddy...

No business without disaster recovery

With only 35% of organisations equipped with a disaster recovery plan, according to Gartner, there is a dire need for more awareness around this facet of business management. Attix5, global developer and provider of data protection software and cloud solutions, is...

What constitutes failure in MTBF?

As a commonly used IT buzzword, MTBF, which stands for “mean time between failure”, is commonly used across many industries. Unfortunately though, it has become widely abused in some. The white paper, Mean Time Between Failure: Explanation and Standards, published by...