Data management key to surviving any disaster

South Africans have found out the hard way that you never know when or how disaster might strike. And many companies are now discovering that staying in business after a disaster is closely tied to how quickly they can restore their IT operations. Disasters take many...

When data backup goes wrong

Businesses know that they need to have backups as part of a data management and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. By Hemant Harie, MD of Gabsten Technologies But the reality is that backup failures are an all too common experience, and they happen for any number of...

Get the right infrastructure to leverage BaaS benefits

Data is a strategic business asset, and it needs to be protected from a multitude of threats. This includes ransomware and cybercrime activities as well as natural disaster, human error and, in South Africa’s case, frequent load shedding. By Lourens Sanders,...

Consolidated workloads need intelligent storage architecture

Consolidating workloads is a tried and tested approach to improving operational efficiency. By Hayden Sadler, country manager for South Africa at Infinidat A successful consolidation strategy can have both economic and administrative benefits. However, it can also...

The importance of cloud-based data archiving

One of the most significant challenges facing organisations today is dealing with the exponential growth of data. By Barry Kemp, head of IaaS at Vox The entire digital universe was expected to reach 44 zettabytes at the end of last year – 40 times more bytes...

The right infrastructure lets you leverage the benefits of BaaS

Data is a strategic business asset, and it needs to be protected from a multitude of threats. By Lourens Sanders, solution architect at Infinidat This includes ransomware and cybercrime activities as well as natural disaster, human error and, in South Africa’s...