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...

Cloud storage: implications of the PoPI Act

Fundamentally, the power of computing is moving to the cloud. Powerful, bulky machines will be rendered unnecessary as data starts getting accessed through the even more powerful infrastructure built around the incredible processing power that now lives on the cloud....

How to solve your storage nightmare

As organisations start to virtualise more of their data centre, they are faced with increasing complexity and latency issues, writes Mark Young, director of systems engineering: EMEA at Tintri. Virtualisation offers huge benefits, with promises of greater IOPS and...