XaaS benefits SA businesses

From infrastructure to disaster recovery, platform to software, virtual desktops to applications and customer relationship management, there are a massive amount of business services now available off-premise as cloud-based solutions. “IT itself has transitioned...

Security solutions for smart home and business

Securing just one aspect of your home or business is no longer an option in a market where criminals are seemingly always one step ahead. As a direct result of this, local infrastructure supplier BT-SA notes that the popularity of integrated security systems is on the...

Vertiv identifies 2017 data centre infrastructure trends

Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, today released six data centre infrastructure trends to watch in 2017. “In 2016, global macro trends significantly impacted the industry, with new cloud innovations and social responsibility taking the spotlight,”...

Long, expensive tech projects a thing of the past

Businesses that are experiencing rapid growth can use cloud-based business management solutions to impose process discipline without restricting their flexibility. That’s according to Keith Fenner, vice-president of Sage Enterprise Africa and vice-president of...

What SDDC means for your business

Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks, talks about software-defined everything. Shifting a lot of the management, and therefore the intelligence, to the software makes a lot of sense and it’s where the industry is heading. Software-defined networking is...

Data centres embrace interoperability

For many years, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have dominated the data centre infrastructure industry and it is glaringly obvious to see how this has happened, writes Christian Rookes, vice-president of product management at ProLabs. One of the most...