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...
Wipro launches Holmes Cloud Bot
Wipro has launched the Wipro Holmes Cloud bot - a continuously learning digital consultant, that leverages Wipro's BoundaryLess Data Center solution. The Wipro Holmes Cloud Bot uses a gamified natural language processing (NLP)-based chat interface to have an...
One component that no cloud solution can do without
Enterprises today no longer question whether or not they should move to cloud. CIOs, CTOs, IT directors and executives need no convincing about the benefits that cloud solutions bring. Economy, efficiency, flexibility, redundancy, scalability and even security is now...
CaseWare and the future of auditing
Technology is bringing immense changes to the auditing profession which are predominantly being driven by automation and cloud. CaseWare Africa business leader Theuns Holtshousen says it is predicted that robotics and artificial intelligence will replace up to 5% of...
Why a multi-cloud strategy makes sense
Placing all your eggs in one cloud can be a problem, writes Brendan McAravey, country manager of Citrix South Africa. We can all agree that cloud has practically become a part of our everyday lives, whether you're streaming your favourite Netflix shows, or even...
Jordan’s power utility runs on IBM Cloud
Jordan Electric Power Company (JEPCO) has selected IBM Cloud to transform and modernise its IT infrastructure. Founded in 1938, JEPCO is responsible for distributing and retailing electricity in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Its customer base accounts for...
Nerds On Site brings cloud to SMEs
Nerds On Site, which solves technology headaches for South African SMEs, has added Gabsten Technologies' CloudProtect solution to its line-up, bringing a much needed cloud backup and recovery capability to its clients. CloudProtect is cost effective, easy to use and...
Choosing the best-suited cloud strategy for your organization
There is general shift by most organisations from traditional IT to the big public cloud, allowing them to respond better and faster to both business and customer needs. According to Dennis Naidoo, senior systems engineer: Middle East, Africa and Turkey at Tintri, a...