Conquer the biggest cloud adoption challenges with an effective strategy
As CIOs turn to the cloud to help streamline performance across key areas of operations, knowing exactly how to conquer the biggest cloud adoption challenges is more important than ever before, writes Marilyn Moodley, country leader for South Africa and WECA (West,...
Measuring the effectiveness of cloud migration
Some organisations have been quick to recognise the value of cloud services and to better visualise the return on investment following a migration, they have long used key performance indicators (KPIs). By Nurani Parasuraman, principal customer solutions at AWS, and...
Cloud migration and workload modernisation critical in 2023
More than 95% of digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms by 2025. This is hardly surprising given how rapidly companies, both locally and abroad, have had to adapt to a new operating environment resulting from the pandemic. By Adrian Hollier,...
The value of an ecosystem in the complex cloud environment
As the cloud landscape grows and sprawls, it's becoming increasingly complex for users to keep up with all the moving parts, processes, and new developments. The cloud 'ecosystem', as it's called, refers to all these multiple building blocks that make up a cloud...
Make sure your data strategy doesn’t get tripped up by data sovereignty
Data is immensely valuable to all organisations, a significant resource for the digital economy and the 'cornerstone of our EU industrial competitiveness,' says the European Commission. But its value is determined by how it can be protected and used by those who own...
Uber selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle and Uber Technologies have announced a seven-year strategic cloud partnership to accelerate Uber's innovation, help deliver new products to market, and drive increased profitability. As Uber continues to grow and enter new markets, it is increasingly important...
Best practices for data protection in the cloud
The "Global DataSphere" is exploding in size. IDC predicts that by 2026, the amount of data in the world will have doubled again. By Rick Vanover, senior director: product strategy at Veeam While most enterprises have digitised their operations, they continue to add...
Be smart in a world of chaos
Whatever industry we operate in, no matter the size of our organisation; we're all running in the same race. The one to ensure that we're at the forefront of customer experiences, winning business, and operating as efficiently as possible, which is only harder during...
Whose fault is it when cloud security fails?
At least 95% of cloud security failures in the next three years will be the customer's fault, according to Gartner. By Marilyn Moodley, country leader for South Africa and WECA (West, East, Central Africa) at SoftwareOne Unsurprisingly, the biggest threat to security...
Adopting a cost optimisation approach for the cloud
Cost optimisation is the continuous discipline of controlling spending and driving cost reduction while maximising business value. For its part, IT cost optimisation entails continually evaluating and configuring all the cloud resources that drive the applications,...
Leverage cloud while using on-prem systems
Moving to the cloud certainly makes sense from an African business perspective, despite some serious challenges and risk factors unique to these shores. By Udhveer Sookraj, data integration specialist at Insight Consulting However, not all businesses can take the...
Dimension Data launches 360 Observability
Dimension Data has announced the launch of 360 Observability. The managed service allows organisations to achieve deep visibility over their cloud-native applications, and hybrid IT and multicloud infrastructure correlated to business context across the entire IT...