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...
CA introduces the Management Cloud
CA Southern Africa has revealed that at the recently held WORLD ’14 — CA Technologies introduced the Management Cloud – a broad portfolio of easy-to-use CA applications, delivered from the cloud, that enable customers to make the right portfolio decisions, deliver...
Awakening Africa’s digital potential
Earlier this year, technology research house Gartner released a report entitled Taming the Digital Dragon as part of its 2014 CIO Agenda. In it, it suggests that if CIOs don’t respond quickly to a tsunami of digital opportunities, they will be washed away – but if...
CommVault automates data protection
CommVault has announced it has added data management and protection support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that includes robust cloud reporting as well as self-service virtual machine provisioning, recovery and resource management with snapshot-based data protection....
Cloud is not just about hosting
Cloud computing is not just about moving your data to the internet. Hosting, virtualisation, and storage are all vital components when it comes to something that has become an accepted part of business conversations, says Muggie van Staden, MD of Obsidian Systems. But...
Migrating to Microsoft Office365
Given that Microsoft’s public Cloud service Office365 is based on known and trusted technologies, migration promises a host of benefits. However, planning is still essential say system development specialists. Dawid van Heerden, CEO of Ukuvuma Solutions, reminds the...
Teraco announces support for AWS in Africa
Teraco Data Environments has announced that it can now offer its clients high-performance network access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by leveraging Level 3 Cloud Connect Solutions. African enterprises looking to connect to cloud-based services can leverage Teraco’s...
Netology, Cloud on Demand partner
Specialist networking services ICT company Netology has partnered with cloud distributor Cloud On Demand to assist it with the provision of cloud services to its customers and in doing so has helped customers reap the benefits of cloud infrastructure. Following the...
IBM unveils intelligent cloud security
IBM has announced it has built the industry’s first intelligent security portfolio for protecting people, data and applications in the cloud. Built on IBM’s investments in cloud, security and analytics software and services, the new offerings are designed to protect a...
Is your cloud provider compliant?
Before investing in any new technology, an organisation must first establish whether that technology will meet the businesses’ needs. Similarly, the organisation must scrutinise the technology and its provider, to make sure it is up to standard with the company’s...
The mobile route to cloud convenience
Mobile devices today serve as the basis connection for developers wanting to store data in cloud environments, to run applications and link apps to facilitate and support the Internet of Things. It is a market enriched by innovation and is increasing in relevance to...