Oracle unveils services to simplify cloud adoption
Oracle has launched a new family of offerings designed to enable organizations to easily move to the cloud and remove some of the biggest obstacles to cloud adoption. These provide CIOs with new choices in where they deploy their enterprise software and a natural path...
Embracing the multi-cloud world could increase profits
Companies that have migrated the majority of their business systems to the cloud save on average more than 20% in IT spending as a percentage of revenue. Cloud application projects have also been found to deliver more than double the return on investment (ROI) of...
Dell EMC accelerates data protection everywhere strategy
Dell EMC has announced availability of a new Dell EMC NetWorker with CloudBoost solution for added protection of enterprise applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as the extension of the industry-leading Data Domain protection storage platform to...
Otel’s hosted PBX suited to lean companies
"Brace for tax pain: higher corporate tax possible" is how veteran money matters columnist Jackie Cameron saw Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's recent mini Budget Speech playing out. "Squeezing additional shareholder value out of corporate earnings under pressure from...
Key strategies to secure cloud migration
Paul Williams, country manager: SADC at Fortinet, outlines four key strategies to help organizations protect their businesses while migrating to private and public clouds. Maintain a strong security posture Organisations need to maintain a strong security posture in...
Data a crucial consideration in cloud migration
The astonishing explosion in data volumes is quickly becoming one of the highest-priority issues for both technology pros and corporate directors alike. Driven by the increasing digitisation of businesses, the rise of the Internet of Things, and the immediacy of...
ALE Enterprise Cloud boosts adoption
ALE, operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand, is making it easier for its business partners to help customers adopt enterprise communications services in the cloud. The latest release of its Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud (OTEC) 2.2 solution...
34% of new IFS customers opt for cloud
IFS has announecd at IFS World Conference 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden, that the company's fully managed, single-tenant cloud offering has been well received by the market with more than one third of new customers opting for cloud-based enterprise software. First...
Embracing the cloud effectively in four simple steps
As understanding of the benefits of the cloud continues to grow among organisations worldwide, so too does cloud adoption, writes Taj Elkhayat, regional vice-president: Middle East, Turkey and Africa for Riverbed Technology. Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud...
Fortinet establishes European cloud data centre
Fortinet has opened its new FortiCloud European data centre based in Germany, enabling European customers to leverage the broadest and most mature portfolio of hosted cybersecurity services in the market, with the confidence that their private data remains within...
T-Systems private cloud meets assurance standard
T-Systems South Africa (TSSA) has undertaken to have its private cloud platform ISAE 3402 audited by reputable audit firm, Deloitte & Touche. T-Systems South Africa understand the strict audit requirements that companies in South Africa can be held too. These...
HDS aims to accelerate digitalisation
Hitachi Data Systems has announced three new ways to improve and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Current market offerings lack flexibility and choice for customers, forcing IT to face on their own a gauntlet of obstacles and dead ends. To address this,...