Cloud adoption among SA corporates grows
Shifting enterprise IT infrastructure and assets to cloud-based architecture is a trend gathering momentum among enterprises worldwide, says AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: Data Centre Services at T-Systems in South Africa. It enables faster, more flexible...
A journey into the cloud
Mark Walker, regional director: sub-Saharan Africa at IDC, looks back on 50 years of technology. It's April 7, 1964, and while the Beatles are telling the world that 'Money Can't Buy Me Love', IBM is attempting to convince the business community that it can at least...
AGS Solar retains customers with Sage CRM
Cape Town-based AGS Solar has implemented Sage CRM to support its growth and extend its leadership of the market. The company selected AWCape to supply, design and implement the solution in a hosted virtual server environment. A member of the 30-year old Saban group...
Local cloud providers boost outsourcing
The call centre has evolved from a "transactional" department into a multi-faceted, social hub of customer service excellence and become a true differentiator for the wise business. As customer service requirements have shifted and evolved over the years, so has the...
Do you know where your data is?
The year 2014 has been a big year of progress for organisations in many industries to move their corporate data into hybrid clouds. But what exactly does this mean for data itself, particularly when it crosses over international borders? What is the impact on data...
Collaboration drives business to the cloud
Cloud-based and hosted services are showing excellent growth in South Africa, says Kevin Derman of First Distribution, with small businesses and startups leading the move. “IDC has predicted that the value of cloud services in South Africa will reach $230m by the end...
Start your new business in the cloud
Every business needs computer systems - and thanks to cloud computing, says Brian Timperley of Turrito Networks, that can now be the easiest part of starting out. “There’s a lot to think about when you’re starting a new business,” says Timperley. “Products, pricing,...
Move to the cloud to boost efficiencies
The South African digital economy is booming – with rapidly decreasing prices of connectivity, coupled with more and more cheap and cheerful entrants into the smartphone game, the average South African is now more exposed to cloud computing than ever before, says Elaine Wang, Microsoft business unit manager, Rectron.
Alcatel-Lucent brings IP routing to cloud
Alcatel-Lucent is delivering the industry’s most complete IP edge routing software portfolio built to meet the demands of any carrier cloud environment.
Data movement in the hybrid cloud
Seemingly everyone with any interest in cloud services today—buyers, sellers, consultants, industry analysts—is talking about the hybrid cloud model. Indeed, numerous organisations are exploring deployment of IT managed hybrid cloud infrastructure, and many more see a...
Salesforce partnership produces CloudSmiths
Two specialist Salesforce.com partners are merging to create a larger and experienced development house for enterprise applications based on the Salesforce.com’s enterprise platform as a service (ePAAS) solution, called Force.com. The new entity is named CloudSmiths,...
Riverbed delivers Azure-certified solution
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has announced another product from the Riverbed Application Performance Platform is now Microsoft Azure Certified. Now, customers can deploy Microsoft Azure Certified Riverbed SteelApp Traffic...