Azure Blob Storage for unstructured data
Azure Blob Storage is massively scalable object storage designed specifically for unstructured data. With scalable, cost-effective cloud storage, you pay only for what you use, and save money compared with on-premises storage options. In addition, organisations can...
Telkom forces customers to move to the cloud
Telkom is shutting down its ADSL copper network and is ultimately forcing its business customers to move to the cloud. This is part of Telkom's strategy to migrate customers to a more stable network and similarly-priced products, according to Euphoria Telecom CEO John...
Azure Blob Storage provides a solid media platform
Avid Technology is a technology and multimedia company specialising in audio and video, whose products are used in the television and video industry. Avid provides content editing, content management, newsroom graphics, and news production solutions for media...
Nutanix named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant
Nutanix has been named a Leader by Gartner in the November 2019 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Nutanix has been recognised in all editions of this Magic Quadrant since Gartner started it. "We continue to be recognised by Gartner as a Leader in...
Veritas tested and validated for AWS Outposts
Veritas Technologies has the capabilities to support AWS Outposts. AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with Amazon Web Services (AWS)-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while...
Azure once again positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant
Azure Storage has retained its position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage in 2019. For the third year in a row, Gartner has placed Microsoft into the coveted Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage, demonstrating the solution’s lasting value. The...
Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct launched
Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct overcomes the cost and complexity of distributed environment backup and disaster recovery for SMEs. This is the word from Byron Horn-Botha, lead: Arcserve Southern Africa channel and partnerships, who says: "It is a straightforward...
Azure Backup: Your trusted partner
Azure Backup is an Azure-based, built-in backup solution for all of an organisation’s resources. It simplifies data protection from ransomware and human error. As a one-click backup solution, Azure Backup is cost-effective and is easier to implement than other cloud...
What is Azure Storage?
Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios. It offers a massively scalable object store for data objects, a file system service for the cloud, a messaging store for reliable messaging, and a NoSQL store. Azure Storage...
The story behind Azure security
Security has to be baked into any cloud solution. When organisations trust their systems to the cloud, they expect security to be a given. Azure goes a step further: its proactive approach to security, compliance, and privacy is unique, with Microsoft leading the...
SA looks to play cloud catch-up
As cloud enters its teen years in 2019, South Africa remains a late adopter of what is globally an established technology. Jason Penton, co-founder of cloud platform builder Jini Guru, says that in the 13 years that cloud has been around, the technology landscape has...
US cloud security spend to reach $1,93m by 2021
Cloud security spending in the United States is expected to reach $1,93-billion by 2021, according to PreciseSecurity.com. Back in 2016, the US region spent $675-million on cloud security solutions in total, meaning it will triple in the following years. In comparison...