Your business, the cloud and lockdown
For years, remote working was a concept that many companies dabbled in, allowing staff to work from home or coffee shops when they needed to. By Richard Vester, executive director: cloud and international at IOCO Despite the fact that remote work has grown 91% over...
Now is the time for cloud-based PBX route
From a practical perspective, the lockdown has highlighted the importance of adopting a cloud-first mindset when it comes to business operations. Nowhere is this more evident than with the PBX of an organisation, its most fundamental customer engagement platform. By...
Move to cloud crucial for virus response
The current lockdown is testing the ability of business to adapt quickly to changing market conditions. Companies that have embraced more digital ways of working have been far less impacted. Several slower respondents are turning their focus away from only the cost...
Lenovo and Veeam power cloud-based data management
Lenovo storage users stand to benefit from the hardware vendor's close alliance with Veeam that assures them of a seamless cloud-based data management and backup experience. Ketan Jeevan, brand manager: Lenovo at First Distribution, explains that the two companies...
Planning key for cloud migration in financial services
More companies are moving data to the Cloud to empower a dynamic workforce, improve the reliability of their services, and to gain flexibility in their IT expenditure. Cloud-based systems are accessible from anywhere, are mostly unaffected by power outages, and are...
Pinnacle enables hybrid cloud with HPE-Nutanix
Digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) mean different things to different organisations. Some may look to implement smart factories; others could aim to quickly analyse multiple data streams; for some a new and better way of serving...
VMware celebrates Virtual Cloud Network milestones
VMware has announced that the number of Virtual Cloud Network customers now exceeds 15 000, including 89 of the Fortune 100 and eight of the top 10 telecommunications companies, and has grown on average 50% each fiscal year since May 2018. VMware's Virtual Cloud...
Embrace the computing power of Azure
South African companies can start realising significant business benefits now by utilising the high-performance computing capabilities of the locally available Microsoft Azure data centres - even if they haven't migrated any data to the cloud yet. By Paul Morgan,...
Expanded portfolio from VMware
VMware has announced a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to help customers modernise their applications and infrastructure. The company is introducing the newly expanded VMware Tanzu portfolio for modern applications, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with...
Service provider sees improvements with Nutanix
Managed service provider (MSP) SMART Technology has cut its backup times by approximately 70% and its resource usage by about 60% with a hyperconverged solution from Nutanix. As a successful MSP, SMART Technology understands the necessity to stay one step ahead of the...
Is the cloud really safe?
Optimal cloud security requires a distinct way of thinking about IT infrastructure, writes Ray Pompon, principal threat evangelist at F5 Labs. Back in the day, the theft and loss of backup tapes and laptops were a primary cause of data breaches. That all changed when...
Azure: one year on
It has been almost a year since Microsoft launched its two Azure data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In a perfect world, these would have resulted in an instantaneous uptake of the cloud, but these things do take time. By Ryan Jamieson, solutions and...