The role of cloud services in SME resilience
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) today depend on digital technology to run their businesses. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are an essential component of preparing your business for a disaster and ensuring it can keep operating should something...
Qlik debuts Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers
Qlik has unveiled Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers at its flagship annual event, Qlik Connect. The new solutions will accelerate enterprise AI adoption, with Qlik Talend Cloud delivering no-code to pro-code, AI-augmented data integration capabilities, and Qlik...
Goodbye cloud-first approach, hello deliberately hybrid strategy
The unforeseen results of the fallacy that businesses must take a cloud-first approach are now coming home to roost. This is according to Ahmed Mahomed, CEO at Datacentrix, who explains that, because cloud adoption had to be expedited due to the pandemic, many...
IBM expands software availability to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace
IBM has announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding globally to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace. The expansion goes beyond Denmark, France, Germany, UK and US, where the software is currently available and it will now be available in 18...
How to evaluate the value proposition of hyperscalers
Cloud service providers are set to continue increasing their presence in South Africa, while meeting local clients' enterprise computing and storage needs. By Eugene De Souza, regional cloud ecosystem lead at Red Hat Just last year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) committed...
SAS expands hosted managed services to AWS
SAS has expanded its SAS-hosted managed services to Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving customers more options for how they choose to deploy and manage their SAS Viya cloud portal platform. "We designed SAS Managed Services to provide our customers with the best of SAS:...
Obsidian delivers cloud data backup peace of mind with HYCU
With Atlassian Cloud customers only able to export their data once every 48 hours, there is a significant gap to effectively protect and recover their mission-critical data. Obsidian Systems, a Platinum Partner of HYCU in South Africa, says the availability of the...
Applications open for the 2024 AWS Equity Equivalent Investment Program
Having successfully incubated and developed 27 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) since 2020, AWS' Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP) seeks to add another 20 success stories with its 2024 cohort. For SMEs in South Africa, the integration of technology in...
What CIOs need to consider about cloud repatriation
Imagine you've spent the past few years dining regularly at restaurants. The management of your household budget will probably have been a challenge without the ability to predict or control your monthly food expenses. By President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa It's...
Sage signs strategic collaboration agreement with AWS
Sage has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), aiming to enhance how SMBs optimise their operations with generative artificial intelligence (AI) and tackle environmental responsibilities. Sage will develop a domain-specific...
Integrating GenAI into the cloud
As people continue to navigate the world of cloud computing and the new offerings that AI can present, 2024 is on the brink of launching new opportunities for those willing to chart this opportunistic territory. Naseem Ahmed, cloud mobilisation practice lead, and...
Huawei Releases National Cloud 2.0
At MWC 2024, Huawei officially released the National Cloud 2.0 solution worldwide. Huawei aims to help government organizations around the world accelerate national digital transformation and promote intelligence. Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, said:...