How CIOs can capitalise on hybrid cloud
Understanding and capitalising on hybrid cloud are priorities for today’s CIOs. Because it incorporates public and private clouds, a hybrid cloud brings together the best of both worlds by enabling businesses and their IT organisations unprecedented flexibility in...
Partnership enables immediate delivery of cloud services
On the back of its partnership with cloud distributor Cloud On Demand, local cloud service provider Alto Africa has increased the speed and delivery of its shrink-wrapped cloud solutions to customers. Alto Africa is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing cloud...
Otel secures funding for CloudAstrix
Otel Telecoms has secured a funding package from UK based private investors to support its continued global distribution of its CloudAstrix range of ISP software. With some of the world’s leading VoIP ITSPs and ISPs as clients, CloudAstrix saw a 150% growth in...
Oracle updates Cloud Platform services
The Oracle Cloud Platform enables customers and partners to easily build new applications, extend Oracle software as a service (SaaS) applications, and migrate existing on-premises applications to the cloud. The Oracle Cloud Platform offers customers and partners the...
Benefits of migrating to the cloud
From providing scalability on demand, to empowering the mobility of the workforce, cloud computing offers a host of benefits to both organisations and users, says Francois Smith, Dell Enterprise field marketing manager for South Africa. The business case for adopting...
Desktop PC market in terminal decline
The continued decline of South Africa’s PC market signals the end of the desktop computing era, says Brian Timperley of CloudGate -- and the question of what will ultimately replace it remains wide open. “IDC claimed recently that the PC market in Africa and the...
SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7 from Riverbed
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has announced new features for Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager, the number one virtual application delivery controller (ADC). As companies evolve toward the hybrid enterprise model with...
DHL uses Pamoja to improve back office
RUBiQ, a cloud solution that is run on cloud platform infrastructure from leading cloud services company Pamoja, has served as the platform of choice to expand DHL’s global back office systems. Preliminary testing has revealed that the project has been successful....
Hybrid cloud is the future of enterprise IT
Cloud computing is universally accepted as one of the major disruptive forces impacting IT today. But few enterprises are ready to migrate all their data and applications to a public cloud. With key concerns including latency, security and control over critical data...
Navomax, SAP sign agreement
Navomax has announced an agreement with SAP Africa to provide managed cloud services for SAP software solutions. Through this agreement, Navomax has become the first official provider of managed cloud as a service for the SAP HANA platform in Africa. The database and...
New ADC software from KEMP
KEMP Technologies announced several new ADC software solutions that offer enhanced performance and operations management within VMware’s cloud platform. These initiatives, also available in developing markets include: hybrid cloud integration; a virtual infrastructure...
Ignite expands cloud offerings to SME market
Ignite, the online ICT platform for small and medium businesses, powered by pan-African telecommunications provider Internet Solutions (IS), has enhanced its cloud offerings in line with its commitment to ensure small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have access to...