First Distribution & AWS help Blue Pearl spin up a game-changing GIG platform
When Blue Pearl came up with a game-changing idea for the consultant employment market, First Distribution and AWS came to the party with the support and encouragement needed to make the vision a reality. The result is that the Blue App (www.blueapp.blue) was up and...
The security cost of accelerated cloud adoption
The uncertainty of 2020 has forced enterprises to accelerate their cloud transformation projects to empower their newly remote workforces, resulting in a 50 percent increase in enterprise cloud use since the start of the year. By Carlo Bolzonello, country manager for...
Fujitsu expands PrimeFlex Portfolio with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
Fujitsu has introduced PrimeFlex for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. Designed to harness the now generally available Azure Stack HCI operating system's capabilities, this pre-configured hardware and software solution enables organisations to modernise their on-premises...
Covid is a catalyst for cloud
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has flipped the traditional 'at-the-office 9-5' convention on its head and today many businesses are facilitating the work-from-home model - which has also served as a catalyst for increased cloud adoption and services implementation,...
How to recover from a hasty cloud migration strategy
Many organisations run into trouble when they embark on cloud migration projects without a properly formulated strategy and business case, meaning they have little clarity about where the business value lies and why they are making the move in the first place. The...
Technical advisory services for moving into the cloud
Adoption of public cloud technologies has accelerated dramatically in 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, among other factors. However, this rapid adoption has also magnified many barriers to successful implementation. One element contributing to failure is...
Chatbots are here to stay
The uptake of chatbot solutions is growing from strength to strength across the globe, as companies spanning various industry segments and verticals are beginning to realise that this technology can effectively transform the way businesses communicate with their...
Things to consider before moving to the cloud
Once something that required evangelism and education, cloud computing has become increasingly pervasive in the South African business world. By Matt Surkont, CEO of BlueSky In fact, a 2019 survey found that 77% of businesses are using cloud services of some kind in...
AWS and Dimension Data in cloud education partnership
Amazon Web Services' (AWS) skills development arm, AWS Training & Certification has partnered with Dimension Data's Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) team to provide essential cloud education to key beneficiaries of the system integrator's Enterprise...
Delivering on the promise of HCI
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has become an attractive option for organisations looking to simplify the increasing complexity of managing their IT and data in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This can at least partly be attributed to the pandemic and...
Multi-cloud won the war – but multi-cloud isn’t easy
We aren't putting modern applications on mainframes. Nor should we be shirking one cloud provider because another says they don't believe in the multi-cloud. By Craigh Stuart, systems engineering manager: SADC & WECA at Nutanix If we have taken any lessons from...
Prevent a disaster from becoming a catastrophe
Every year, companies spend millions of rands mirroring their IT operations as a precaution against the possibility that their main data centre will fail. By Niël Malan, managing partner at Tangent Solutions The entire system is often replicated in a second physical...