Pinnacle enables hybrid cloud with HPE-Nutanix
Digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) mean different things to different organisations. Some may look to implement smart factories; others could aim to quickly analyse multiple data streams; for some a new and better way of serving...
VMware celebrates Virtual Cloud Network milestones
VMware has announced that the number of Virtual Cloud Network customers now exceeds 15 000, including 89 of the Fortune 100 and eight of the top 10 telecommunications companies, and has grown on average 50% each fiscal year since May 2018. VMware's Virtual Cloud...
Embrace the computing power of Azure
South African companies can start realising significant business benefits now by utilising the high-performance computing capabilities of the locally available Microsoft Azure data centres - even if they haven't migrated any data to the cloud yet. By Paul Morgan,...
Expanded portfolio from VMware
VMware has announced a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to help customers modernise their applications and infrastructure. The company is introducing the newly expanded VMware Tanzu portfolio for modern applications, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with...
Service provider sees improvements with Nutanix
Managed service provider (MSP) SMART Technology has cut its backup times by approximately 70% and its resource usage by about 60% with a hyperconverged solution from Nutanix. As a successful MSP, SMART Technology understands the necessity to stay one step ahead of the...
Is the cloud really safe?
Optimal cloud security requires a distinct way of thinking about IT infrastructure, writes Ray Pompon, principal threat evangelist at F5 Labs. Back in the day, the theft and loss of backup tapes and laptops were a primary cause of data breaches. That all changed when...
Azure: one year on
It has been almost a year since Microsoft launched its two Azure data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In a perfect world, these would have resulted in an instantaneous uptake of the cloud, but these things do take time. By Ryan Jamieson, solutions and...
Finding value in simplifying multi-cloud challenges
According to RightScale's 2019 State of the Cloud Report, from Flexera, enterprises are prioritising a balance of public and private clouds; with 28% prioritising hybrid cloud and an additional 17% prioritising public and private cloud equally. There is value to be...
When is your business is ready for cloud storage?
South African enterprises have lagged their international counterparts in migrating data centre infrastructure to the public cloud - often because of concerns about latency, bandwidth and data sovereignty. By Mike Rogers, MD of Tarsus Technology Solutions But that...
Networks follow apps to the cloud
Applications are fast migrating out of legacy data centres to the lcoud, which offers more simplicity, better economics and the potential for an improved user experience. As these apps move from the data centre, the network must follow them to the cloud. Troye...
Sabre forges 10-year partnership with Google
Google Cloud has joined forces with Sabre, a software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry--to help digitally transform the traveller's experience, and co-create the future of travel. Sabre, which launched in 1960, revolutionised the travel...
Lufthansa partners with Google Cloud
Flight delays, rebookings due to missed flights and extreme weather conditions are some of the many factors that can disrupt a flight schedule. The Lufthansa Group airlines are keen to return to a stable flight plan as quickly as possible, which is why the...