The business value of VDI

Jacques Viljoen, solutions arhitect at Datacentrix, says virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or desktop virtualisation, offers the type of technology that can provide real business benefits to South African organisations. But what is the best approach for companies...

Disaster recovery will be easier in 2014

There are a number of changes that this year will bring to organisations – whether the IT group finally gets to retire an old application or happily implements a new piece of hardware. One challenge that has been around forever is disaster recovery (DR). 2014...

Building a distributed global enterprise

The explosion of online, social and mobile technologies has resulted in a 24/7 worldwide workplace. Long gone are the days when business was confined to desktop PCs and a nine-to-five working day. Today, organisations are increasingly operating from multiple locations...

2014 will not be the year of VDI

The time has come to say goodbye to a much loved annual event: declaring the coming year as the “year of VDI”, says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix, South Africa. There is no doubt that VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) deployments will continue to grow,...

Virtualisation aids disaster recovery

Virtualisation has helped to make disaster recovery and business continuity planning easy and affordable for even the smallest companies, says Warren Olivier, regional corporate account manager at Veeam Software – but many still aren’t taking advantage of the new...

PwC achieves better backups with Veeam

Like many companies, PricewaterhouseCoopers South Africa (PwC) hoped its legacy backup solution for physical servers would perform just as well in a virtualised environment. But as the company approached complete virtualisation, says Senior Manager for Hosted Services...