What to look for in a data centre partner

As enterprises digitise their businesses and adopt technologies such as social media, mobility, analytics (including big data), cloud and machine learning, along with an increasing amount of open source, their computing needs have evolved, says Milind Halapeth, Global...

Architecting the future

A significant part of the CIO’s role is ensuring that IT aligns with the business objectives. However, while transformation has long been a buzzword in the IT industry, enterprise architecture is often pushed towards the bottom of the priority list. “Enterprise...

Legacy infrastructure hinders companies

A new version of enterprise technology that offers the whole IT suite on demand will give businesses the flexibility to deliver services at speeds demanded by customers, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. F5 Networks CTO, Karl Triebes, held a talk at...

M-Net studios implements Jasco solution

M-Net, South Africa’s first private subscription television service, currently boasts an array of general entertainment and niche channels and broadcasts to 41 countries across Africa. When storage allocation became an issue with the system currently in use, M-Net...

Stratus Technologies localises user support

Stratus Technologies is a leading provider of availability solutions that ensure uninterrupted performance of essential business operations. This is a requirement that is becoming even more prominent in today’s “always-on” era, where tolerance for downtime from...

Data centre market in transition

The data centre market is entering a period of unprecedented transition. With this shift comes a number of significant – and perhaps surprising – changes. Smaller, enterprise-owned data centres are shrinking in size. At the other end of the scale, mega-facilities...