Mar 10, 2014
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,...
Nov 20, 2013
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...
Nov 5, 2013
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...
Oct 9, 2013
Data virtualisation is not about IT – it’s about giving decision-makers immediate access to all the relevant information and only the relevant information, says Chris O’Connell, MD at BITanium. Information has become the strategic business advantage; hence how...
Sep 30, 2013
An independent market research survey commissioned by Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, reveals that 70% of IT decision makers are looking to centralise applications during 2013. The Riverbed commissioned survey questioned 400 CIOs in Europe...
Jul 15, 2013
Schools are not usually high on the list of examples of IT best practices. But in the case of East London’s Stirling High School, one music teacher/IT manager is showing how virtualisation can save time, save money and make the school’s entire IT infrastructure more...
