Nokia, SAP, Microsoft advance cloud, AI transformation
Nokia has signed a new multi-year agreement with SAP to help accelerate its enterprise transformation using RISE with SAP Methodology, with its SAP S/4HANA software environment hosted on Microsoft Azure. The agreement, concluded at the end of 2025, marks a significant...
NTT Data expands collaboration with Google Cloud
NTT Data has announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment of agentic AI solutions built with Gemini Enterprise. The collaboration is focused on enabling AI-powered reinvention, helping...
From raw data to real decisions: Making analytics work for business
There is no shortage of data inside most organisations. The challenge sits elsewhere. By Tinotenda Makombe, programme manager: AWS, Cloud On Demand Data is collected, stored and often visualised, but the step that matters most is still inconsistent: turning that...
AI infrastructure boom shouldn’t be funded through customer price hikes
The AI boom is reshaping the tech landscape in profound ways, and not all of them are welcome for organisations’ budgets. As companies race to deploy generative AI, train large language models, and run inference at scale, the demand for specialised compute has...
Velocity Technology Group debuts Migration Factory
Velocity Technology Group (VTG) has launched its Migration Factory, a repeatable service designed to help organisations consolidate or split Microsoft 365 tenants and Active Directory (AD) domains with minimal disruption, particularly during acquisitions, divestments,...
Your multi-cloud strategy is a lie. It’s actually a Frankenstack
When cloud first hit mainstream business use, companies were told to move fast. Then they were told to move everything. Now, many organisations are discovering what they actually built, and it’s not a modern platform, or a streamlined architecture, and it certainly...
The hidden cost of cloud complexity (and what to do about it)
Cloud adoption in South Africa is accelerating. Budgets are being committed, environments are being built, and the channel is busier than it has been in years. Othelo Vieira, technical product manager lead at Cloud On Demand That is genuinely good news. But there is a...
Cloud adoption is accelerating – but so are hidden security risks
As organisations continue to move critical systems and data into the cloud at pace, many are discovering that migration alone does not reduce risk – it simply changes where that risk lives. According to Dariel, the real challenge lies in managing the complexity,...
Contact centre solution enables remote workforce
Catalytic has launched a Cisco-powered, AI-based contact centre solution for local firms needing to connect their distributed staff with customers. ICASA’s most recent State of the ICT Sector report reveals a South Africa with limited fixed broadband access and...
The cloud myth: More platforms do not mean more innovation
For the past decade, technology solution providers sold a seductive story: Move everything to the cloud, add more platforms and more services, and watch costs fall while innovation explodes. By Richard Vester, chief executive: cloud at iOCO Now, the hangover has...
Why cloud efficiency drives business growth
We have done the cloud industry a disservice, writes Oliver Niemandt, GM and head of sales at Cloud On Demand. Somewhere along the way, the conversation about cloud value got replaced by a conversation about cloud cost. I am not sure exactly when it happened, but I...
Nutanix adds bare-metal Kubernetes
Nutanix has announced NKP Metal which extends the Nutanix operating model and Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution to support Kubernetes® deployments directly on bare-metal infrastructure. Running Kubernetes on bare metal can deliver the performance and...