The unexpected costs of moving to the cloud
A few years ago, companies thought the cloud might help save on costs. No doubt everyone recalls the plethora of articles with titles such as: "How to save time and money in the cloud" or "Cloud Computing can generate massive savings", says Phil Curran, director of...
Ensure your cloud business is recoverable
If the recent outages by large local service providers is anything to go by, then you need to ensure that your business data that is hosted in the cloud is secure, backed up and recoverable. It is with this that local cloud platform and cloud products distributor...
Avanade acquires CloudTalent
Avanade, a global business technology solutions, cloud and managed services provider, today announced that it has acquired CloudTalent, a strategic, cloud advisory business headquartered in the United Kingdom (UK). With a unique and pragmatic approach to IT...
Key criteria for hosted business continuity
The adoption of cloud computing models is revolutionising how IT is procured and used - and also how organisations ensure business continuity. However, says Sasha Malic, head of Availability and Hosting Services at ContinuitySA, the two should not be confused. “Many...
Riverbed introduces SteelHead 9.1
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, today introduced Riverbed SteelHead 9.1, delivering new capabilities that are designed to ensure cloud applications perform as expected and provide IT the visibility, optimisation, and control...
Sage delivers new solutions with Sage X3
Sage has announced the availability of Sage X3 in the cloud, giving midsized companies access to the powerful capabilities of the Sage flagship enterprise solution – previously known as Sage ERP X3 – without sacrificing business agility for ERP integration. Sage X3...
Amazon Aurora now available to all customers
Amazon Web Services has announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases, is now available to all customers....
Personal beats public cloud
Consumers today generate more digital content than ever before, on a wide range of different devices. From music, television series and movie downloads to documents, emails and thousands of photographs, on computers, notebooks, tablets and smartphones, the volume and...
Cloud as an enabler of enterprise growth
We live in a world where we have unprecedented access to computing power: a developer sitting in a café anywhere in our region can now access the same computing power as a Fortune 500 company. This is enabled by the cloud: an almost infinite amount of computing...
Secure habits aids cloud computing
The move toward cloud computing services is gaining traction across many industries due to rapidly growing volumes of data that require storage, says Sumash Singh, country manager at CommVault. For the security sector, surveillance footage is the biggest demand on...
Conferencing in the cloud grows
Communication is often the lifeline of a small or medium-sized business (SME) as it keeps the company connected with its employees, partners and suppliers and ensures that all stakeholders are on the same page. The use of modern cloud technology can take business...
Contact centre agents affect customers
Companies are no longer judged based on their marketing material. Staff and customers judge them based on their actions, big and small. The link between the way a company behaves and customers’ affiliation to the brand is clear and direct. According to Lisa Roos,...