New choice for managed container services
Hitachi Vantara has announced the expansion of its Hitachi Enterprise Cloud portfolio to address DevOps and container use cases. The Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vRealize Automation now provides expanded services offering for DevOps and Container Support for...
Privacy concerns and the cloud
In this age of big data, it is easy to get swept up in the excitement of the opportunities that real-time analysis and insights can provide insurers. Yet, for all these benefits, the elephant in the room remains the issue of privacy and what should be done to...
Oracle unveils new cloud programmes
Oracle has announced new programs that lower costs by delivering increased automation and flexibility, and enable customers to get more value from their existing Oracle software investments. The new Oracle Cloud programs include Bring Your Own License to PaaS and...
SA leapfrogs to IaaS
Andrew Cruise, MD of vendor neutral cloud hosting platform provider Routed, says that almost all South African businesses now have a cloud strategy. While the adoption curve remains at the beginning stages, especially for internal apps, he says that South Africa's...
Managing hybrid, multi-cloud environments
The vast majority of companies have moved at least parts of their business to the cloud. The benefits in terms of cost savings, improved operations and similar are too great to ignore. Some have gone either a public or private cloud route, but most have a hybrid...
Plotting the customer journey to the cloud
According to market research firm Gartner, in its Predicts 2017: Cloud Computing Enters Its Second Decade report, published in December 2016, organisations are increasingly moving beyond just experimenting with cloud, to now seeking strategic relationships with...
Avaya unveils HD video conferencing and collaboration service
Avaya has announced the availability in South Africa of a new, cloud-based video conferencing and collaboration service, Avaya Equinox Meetings Online. The service -- available exclusively through Avaya channel partners - delivers the quality experience for which...
Cloud or on-premise for VoIP?
VoIP systems are increasingly popular in digitally-driven businesses, and offer huge advantages in the way of cost savings, improved efficiency, and offering an overall better customer and employee experience. Buying a VoIP telecoms system however can be challenging,...
The role of the cloud in digital transformation
Businesses acknowledge they are buried under mountains of inefficiencies and missed opportunities. CEOs understand that digital is an opportunity or a threat. So, the question is not about awareness, but how to unleash the power of digital transformation while finding...
Partners, cloud key to SME competitiveness
According to the World Economic Forum, SMEs contribute around 80% of the African continent's employment driving the creation of a new middle class and fuelling demand for new goods and services. Of late, SMEs have also seen a levelling of the playing field with their...
Liquid Telecom delivers MS services in Africa
Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of Econet Global, has partnered with Microsoft through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme and is now delivering scalable and secure cloud services across Africa. As an official CSP partner, Liquid Telecom will for the first time...
How to move your SME into the cloud
Cloud computing is transforming the way companies interact with their customers, with 93% of South African companies currently either implementing or planning the initial phase of their cloud strategy. Whether we know it or not, we are already reliant on the cloud....