Security in the cloud
For many organisations, the prospect of migrating their IT infrastructure to the cloud is becoming increasingly attractive. The key benefits being cost savings, scalability and more time to focus on their businesseses and applications important to customers. Many adopters have also realised that moving to the cloud can help them increase their security visibility and effectiveness, says Bill Murray, global head of Security Programs, Amazon Web Services.
Don’t be blinded by buzzwords
Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs released a study which projected that spending on cloud computing infrastructure and platforms will grow at a 30% compound annual growth rate from 2013 through 2018, compared with 5% growth for the overall enterprise IT market. This is...
Commvault delivers cloud solution sets
CommVault, a leader in enterprise data protection and information management, has announced numerous additions to its product suite to enable organisations to better leverage existing investments and accelerate enterprise wide cloud adoption. Public and Hybrid Cloud...
Veeam expands family of free tools
Veeam Software has announced two new solutions - Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure and Veeam Management Pack (MP) v8 for Microsoft System Center - to help customers more easily adopt Microsoft’s hybrid cloud as part of their IT strategy. Both of these products are now...
Vox Telecom, Sage One Accounting partner
Vox Telecom will be partnering with Sage South Africa to include Sage One Accounting online software to its suite of products as part of a complete IT services solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Sage One Accounting is a simple, secure and affordable...
Network Alliance wins Microsoft competency
ICT services provider Network Alliance recently attained the Microsoft Silver Cloud Productivity competency certification offered to qualifying members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The certification process is stringent, and requires service providers to not only...
VMware introduces new open source projects
VMware has announced two new open source projects built to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications – Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project that will extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications; and Project...
Cloud drives operational efficiencies
Cloud computing has the potential to deliver significant business benefit by turning IT into an operational cost rather than a capital expense. In addition, cloud is the foundation of leading-edge technologies such as mobility and collaboration, which are essential...
BT announces new cloud services
BT has announced a new generation of cloud services that allow large organisations around the world to connect easily and securely to the applications and the data they need, independently of where they are hosted. They will empower customers to integrate and...
Take your small business into the cloud
Cloud computing is the buzzword of the moment and many small business owners are starting to get excited about its promise. From a few early adopters, the cloud is now ready to burst into the mainstream of the SME market. In 2012, just 9% of SMEs were using cloud...
Hybrid cloud security for mobile users
VMware has announced the company is transforming hybrid cloud security for mobile end users through the combination of VMware NSX network virtualisation and the company’s business mobility solutions, AirWatch by VMware and VMware Horizon. Next week at RSA Conference,...
Itec enables agility through cloud solution
As South African organisations continue to search for ways to drive down cost and improve efficiency and agility, they are increasingly looking to cloud computing to achieve this. This has forced service providers to relook at their solution delivery models to meet...