NetApp aims to lead in hybrid cloud data services
More than two-thirds of CEOs of the 2 000 largest global organizations have identified digital transformation as the centerpiece of their growth and profitability strategies moving forward. To successfully transform, business leaders are recognizing the need for new...
NetApp expands Microsoft hybrid cloud collaboration
NetApp expands Microsoft hybrid cloud collaborationNetApp plans to expand its strategic alliance with Microsoft to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation for hybrid cloud.Customers are evolving their data centres to integrate hybrid cloud delivery models...
Overcoming the barriers to cloud success
The notion of 'digital business transformation' remains a white-hot theme among boardrooms around South Africa, and the broader continent. Andre Muzerie, Oracle business practice head at Wipro Africa, discusses the issue. An organisation may be looking to reimagine...
One Channel takes mid-sized and large organisations to the cloud
There is no doubt that cloud computing has changed the way businesses operate. The only question that possibly remains unanswered is when to move to the cloud. Although an increasing number of business are moving their services to the cloud, many still have...
Cloud services will spur SA digitisation
The launch of various local cloud platforms is a defining moment in the digitisation of companies and governments across the continent, writes Peter Reid, executive head of Intervate South Africa. Microsoft recently announced that its Microsoft Cloud would be...
2017 a tipping point for cloud
By 2020, nine out of 10 organisations will utilise hybrid cloud infrastructure, according to Gartner[1]. With cloud spending in this area rising faster than ever before, and data centre outsourcing on the decline, 2017 is set to be a tipping point for IaaS adoption....
Kenyan company builds value for clients
A pioneering East African audit and professional services firm is adding value to its services by automating processes and harnessing the cloud. Compliance is non-negotiable in the auditing sphere, but in order to truly add value to clients, accounting and auditing...
F5 delivers application services for a multi-cloud world
F5 Networks has announced the availability of offerings designed to provide consistent application services in multi-cloud environments - giving companies greater deployment flexibility more effective security and faster time to market. F5's 2017 State of Application...
Scale team apps with Obsidian and Atlassian
Obsidian Systems, an independent supplier of open source enterprise solutions, will co-host two events for partners and press with a market leader of issue-tracking and collaboration platforms, Atlassian. The events will take place in Johannesburg, on 30 May, and in...
Tarsus on Demand partners with BitCo
Tarsus on Demand is partnering with tier 1 Internet and telephony provider, BitCo, to offer its resellers the ability to resell affordable voice and data services to their clients. The new relationship means that resellers working with Tarsus on Demand can offer their...
BCX launches Virtustream cloud service
BCX has announced the launch of its Virtustream capability out of its Tier IV data centres in South Africa. The partnership with Virtustream, a Dell Technologies business, enables BCX to host business critical workloads in the cloud and will be available to enterprise...
Coming to grips with the enterprise cloud
At present, conversations in IT organisations are centred on the topic of “enterprise cloud”. In the simplest terms, enterprise cloud is cloud infrastructure designed to deliver the same agility as the public cloud, but within the enterprise data centre. At the top of...