Dynamic pricing unlocks the value of cloud software licensing
While the technology sector sits at the forefront of innovation across every industry vertical in the modern digital economy, the legacy software licensing model lags the innovation curve and threatens to constrain value creation among business users without a more...
Huawei Cloud ranks number three in SA
Huawei Cloud is one of the top three cloud service providers in South Africa, according to the Africa Analysis "2024 South Africa Cloud Computing Market Growth Forecast Report". Almost one in five surveyed users are running significant workloads on Huawei's platform....
Demand for digital infrastructure for data centres is rising
New technological trends such as AI-generated content, quantum computing, and 5G expansion are driving an insatiable demand for new data centres worldwide. In South Africa, this demand is particularly pronounced as the country positions itself as a critical hub for...
SoftwareOne named in IDC MarketScape report
SoftwareOne has been recognised as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services Vendor 2024 Assessment. IDC MarketScape evaluated about 940 global cloud professional services vendors based on buyer perceptions, and success metrics in...
Ricoh’s cloud portfolio, security score top marks
Ricoh has been named a leader once again by global market insight and research firm Quocirca in its Cloud Print Services Market Landscape, 2024 report. According to Quocirca's research, 69% of organisations are already using a cloud print management solution. Quocirca...
NTT Data a leader for cloud professional services
NTT Data has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2024 Vendor Assessment report. The report evaluated 24 cloud professional services providers on key measures of success across two primary categories: capabilities and...
Busamed sees ROI from hosted cloud migration
Private South African hospital group Busamed has successfully consolidated seven on-premise data centres into one central, hosted private cloud environment, with the organisation seeing power consumption savings that have covered around 80% of the project costs, as...
Huawei provides a preferred hybrid cloud to accelerate industry intelligence for Africa
Huawei has announced the launch of its Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 offering at the Huawei Africa Connect 2024 conference, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. The launch of the offering was announced in a keynote speech delivered by Hu Yuhai, vice-president of...
How to secure your corporate cloud environment
It has become a strategic imperative for a company to safeguard its cloud environment. Naresh Thukkani, group chief technology officer at inq However, doing so effectively requires a multi-layered strategy designed to ensure data, applications, and infrastructure are...
The role of cloud services in SME resilience
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) today depend on digital technology to run their businesses. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are an essential component of preparing your business for a disaster and ensuring it can keep operating should something...
Qlik debuts Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers
Qlik has unveiled Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers at its flagship annual event, Qlik Connect. The new solutions will accelerate enterprise AI adoption, with Qlik Talend Cloud delivering no-code to pro-code, AI-augmented data integration capabilities, and Qlik...
Goodbye cloud-first approach, hello deliberately hybrid strategy
The unforeseen results of the fallacy that businesses must take a cloud-first approach are now coming home to roost. This is according to Ahmed Mahomed, CEO at Datacentrix, who explains that, because cloud adoption had to be expedited due to the pandemic, many...