Dec 11, 2014
Few people can afford to be as overindulgent as to buy something just for the sake of it, especially if it is a product or service that they have no or little use for themselves. Of course, some people will buy clothes that are a few sizes too small in the hopes of...
Dec 2, 2014
Like insurance, data backup is a necessary evil. You don’t think you need it until something goes wrong and then you realise just how crucial it was in the first place. If you don’t have it during the critical moment when it is required, it can cost you...
Nov 20, 2014
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act will give businesses the opportunity to reinvent their enterprise data storage and management, says Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Speaking at the Hitachi Information Forum in Johannesburg last week Friday, HDS experts...
Nov 18, 2014
The simplicity of cloud-based solutions for personal storage has triggered rapid expansion of ‘shadow IT’ in the average organisation, in turn bringing a range of new threats and risks into the IT environment. That’s according to Oliver Potgieter, director of Alto...
Oct 28, 2014
Decision-makers agree that while there is little about information backup and archiving that is exciting, there is no doubting the importance of looking after this facet of your business. Innovation in the IT industry is currently moving at such a rapid pace – it is...
Oct 27, 2014
Data storage has changed dramatically over the years, from the days of hard drives holding just a few Mb to today, where terms like Petabyte, Exabyte and Zettabyte are used to describe unimaginable volumes of data. As the amount of digital information created has...
