Why the right hyperscale partner is crucial for success
A wave of big data from a slew of ubiquitously networked devices, sensors and the Internet of things, is flooding organisations across the board, and putting pressure on data centres to deliver and perform at their peak. Moreover, the need for instant, 'from anywhere'...
Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange offers direct connections
Cloud investment into Africa has increased sharply as the continent sees the establishment of its first cloud regions. Through extensive investment by multiple international operators, cloud strategies are now becoming a key element within every enterprise's...
Fujitsu extends agility with multi-hypervisor hyperconvergence
Fujitsu has announced the global availability of the multi-hypervisor platform Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on Primergy. This Fujitsu appliance delivers confidence to customers that new digital applications can be delivered at speed and enable enterprise IT...
That cloud looks attractive right now
South Africa's current woes, both real and imagined, appear to be coming in jumbo-packs of late. The uncertainties around the upcoming National Elections, severe weather conditions and ratings agency downgrades are all dealing body blows to our already struggling...
How communications service providers can maximise revenue with cloud
While cloud adoption among communications service providers (CSPs) in Africa is still at an early stage - with many regional operators only now beginning to implement concrete projects. Hassen Hamza, pre-sales and business development manager: Middle East & Africa...
Six ways to optimise your cloud usage
Elaine Wang, cloud and software solutions director at Rectron, provides some tips for businesses looking to maximise their return on investment from the cloud For the longest time, businesses have been involved in discussions around the benefits of shifting their data...
Are we teetering on the edge?
For the past five years we’ve all been talking about the cloud. It’s become all pervasive as companies move to consumption-based pricing, and we’ve watched the meteoric rise of the hyper-scalers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. And that’s despite the cynic’s view...
Solving the challenges of multi-cloud storage
Statistics gathered from the Gartner Symposium held in Cape Town in September 2018, stated that 60% of South African organisations use cloud services today. By Hayden Sadler, country manager: South Africa at Infinidat This percentage is expected to increase with the...
Case study: how Travelport uses cloud to meet digitalisation demands
By Mike Croucher - The travel industry is transforming with emerging technologies, new business models and changing consumer expectations. Travelers now have a wide range of options when it comes to planning their trips. While it might have once been common to visit...
Standard Bank partners with AWS for cloud migration
By Kathy Gibson - Standard Bank plans to migrate production workloads that include customer-facing systems and strategic core banking application to the cloud, and has signed up Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. Group CIO Alpheus Mangale...
The forecast for Africa: cloudy …
As South Africa welcomes local data centres from global players like Microsoft and Amazon, it’s clear that the cloud conversation is about to become more vocal. The latest moves are driving more enterprises to consider public cloud services, says Kevin Krige, data...
SA set to embrace the public cloud
Cloud computing received a major boost over the last few weeks, with two of the world’s largest public cloud providers officially opening data centres in South Africa. Within days of one another, Huawei and Microsoft both opened their local data centres, offering...