Why does your business need flash?

Your business relies on storage, but traditional storage has not kept pace with your business. Now flash storage offers a generational leap in performance, while taking less out of your budget. Flash storage is one of the most exciting technologies to arrive in the...

IT and storage trends for 2017

Mark Bregman, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of NetApp, outlines where he sees the industry going in 2017. The explosion of data in today’s digital economy has resulted in a fundamental shift from using data to run the business to recognising...

Realise the benefits of cloud backup

The past year has seen South African businesses migrate a substantial amount of their data to the cloud. Phillip de Bruyn, customer experience manager at Redstor, believes this will bring a renewed focus to the benefits of extending such a rollout into the development...

Is flash poised to kill disk for primary storage?

Flash is now the only realistic choice for primary storage with the performance and bottom line benefits it brings. The historic concerns over cost and stability are now a thing of the past, meaning all-flash arrays are well on their way to becoming the dominant force...

Why flash storage is changing the business world

The world is continually being moulded by small, unseen technologies. We rarely appreciate the massive impact of a new technology, until we can’t consider life without its influence. Imagine the world before screws, string, ink and countless other dark horse...

Filmmaker Gareth Pon punts WD’s My Cloud EX4100

An independent South African filmmaker, photographer and creative consultant, Gareth Pon is best known as Africa’s Top Instagrammer. Having spent the last few years investigating the potential of mobile photography while growing his worldwide network of friends...