Women entrepreneurs embrace cloud benefits
Entrepreneurs attending Huawei's Women in Tech digital skills training programme, say they are now open to embracing cloud technology, following a three-day course showcasing the value of Cloud for SMMEs. The session opened with a survey amongst the women delegates of...
BCX, Alibaba Cloud forge partnership
BCX and Alibaba Cloud have formed a partnership to bring the best-in-class cloud technologies to local businesses in South Africa to drive local digitalisation. The two parties signed an exclusive distribution contract today to grant BCX exclusive rights and authority...
How hybrid cloud strategies help master emerging technologies
New technologies can propel efficiency and business performance to new levels. However, adoption is not always straightforward. By Shunsuke Takagi, head of global hybrid IT offerings at Fujitsu New Research from Fujitsu shows that organisations with a strategic...
Automation, data strategy key for future-proofing cloud adoption
Cloud computing is one of the key catalysts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). It has single-handedly accelerated business efficiency through its ability to drive contingency, scalability, almost real-time data availability, and a reduction in on-site skills...
Automation, data strategy key to future-proof cloud adoption
Cloud computing is one of the key catalysts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). It has single-handedly accelerated business efficiency through its ability to drive contingency, scalability, almost real-time data availability, and a reduction in on-site skills...
People power: invest in talent for hybrid cloud success
Successfully implementing a hybrid cloud environment is challenging. Therefore, employing the right talent to manage it is crucial, writes Shunsuke Takagi, head of global hybrid IT offerings at Fujitsu. In an era when public cloud computing is so well established,...
PaaS versus SaaS in the IoT world
Why should companies consider investing in platform as a service (PaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) when it comes to launching an IoT application? By Anna Branquinho, product marketing associate at Trinity IoT PaaS - the customer buys everything PaaS offerings...
Reducing risk in a hybrid cloud model is the key to fueling growth
Cyber security is the number one concern for organizations when managing their hybrid cloud environments. This is hardly surprising when you consider that nine out of 10 companies have suffered data breaches in the last 12 months. Damages due to digital crime...
The future potential of the cloud
Despite an increased awareness by decision-makers of cloud computing, many organisations around the world are yet to fully adopt it. By Frik van der Westhuizen, CEO of EQPlus Research shows that 41% of companies in the EU used cloud computing last year, and then it...
Aligning hybrid cloud strategy with business-wide goals leads to better and faster results
Once the concept of cloud computing was out there and starting to be understood, there was a period when it seemed possible that some businesses might make the shift and become totally cloud-based. By Tim Moody, head of portfolio and strategy at Fujitsu At the turn of...
Unify your edge with a Continuum Control Plane
The cloud is complex. It is no longer just a single, static destination but rather an operating model for innovation across the Cloud Continuum. To keep up with the innovation opportunities, distributed infrastructure environments, and applications and data that live...
AWS helps Blue Pearl to reinvent skills matching
A couple of years ago, developing a whole new IT contracting business model, and getting it up and running in a few short months, would have been impossible. Not to the mention the labour and investment that would have been involved in constantly updating, expanding...