Aug 26, 2014
The explosion of mobile, cloud and social technologies has dramatically changed the business landscape. Today, distance is no longer a barrier to business success. An organisation’s applications, data centre and offices can be opposite sides of the world, yet the...
Aug 20, 2014
All businesses that are looking to outsource their data needs, instead of buying, maintaining and hosting their own servers in their own server rooms or data centres, need to do their homework first. That’s the view of Debbie Pretorius, GM of MWeb Business, who points...
Jul 15, 2014
Six years since opening its doors, Teraco Data Environments, a sub-Saharan Africa’s first provider of resilient, vendor neutral data environments, says the path to 2020 will provide an equivalent amount of innovation and evolution as the data centre becomes an even...
Jul 11, 2014
While IT managers dread system downtime, the harsh reality is that even the best plans and preparation cannot prepare for every circumstance. Pieter van der Merwe, Availability Solutions Architect, Africa & Middle East at Stratus Technologies, says here it is...
May 14, 2014
Rising electricity costs and the uncertain reliability of the power supply are two key factors that are driving a growing trend among small and medium-sized businesses to move their servers out of their premises into dedicated, shared data centres. That’s according to...
Mar 4, 2014
South African businesses within the small-to-mid size market may consider server load balancing (SLB) an investment that is just a little too far from reach and an unnecessary burden. The truth is that the business case for an investment of this kind makes sense and...
