Embracing the cloud
The future of business is digital. Organisations, large and small, are embracing new technologies in our increasingly interconnected digital world. The mega-trends of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are driving the digital future like never before and these...
Remote infrastructure management
For many South African firms, making the giant leap to a fully-hosted, fully-outsourced cloud environment is still a daunting idea. Compared with their peers in the US or Europe, local organisations are subject to generally poorer connectivity, longer asset renewal...
Five cloud misconceptions affecting business
In our developing economy, the potential benefits of cloud-based products, particularly for SMMEs, cannot be ignored. Yet for many a small business owner, the concept of “the cloud” is still a foggy haze.
How the cloud helps SMEs tidy up the IT mess
Cloud backup provider IronTree estimates that one in five South African small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) experience some form of data loss once a year, most commonly as a result of accidents and natural disasters, data corruption, or theft of computing...
How CIOs can capitalise on hybrid cloud
Understanding and capitalising on hybrid cloud are priorities for today’s CIOs. Because it incorporates public and private clouds, a hybrid cloud brings together the best of both worlds by enabling businesses and their IT organisations unprecedented flexibility in...
Partnership enables immediate delivery of cloud services
On the back of its partnership with cloud distributor Cloud On Demand, local cloud service provider Alto Africa has increased the speed and delivery of its shrink-wrapped cloud solutions to customers. Alto Africa is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing cloud...
Otel secures funding for CloudAstrix
Otel Telecoms has secured a funding package from UK based private investors to support its continued global distribution of its CloudAstrix range of ISP software. With some of the world’s leading VoIP ITSPs and ISPs as clients, CloudAstrix saw a 150% growth in...
Oracle updates Cloud Platform services
The Oracle Cloud Platform enables customers and partners to easily build new applications, extend Oracle software as a service (SaaS) applications, and migrate existing on-premises applications to the cloud. The Oracle Cloud Platform offers customers and partners the...
Benefits of migrating to the cloud
From providing scalability on demand, to empowering the mobility of the workforce, cloud computing offers a host of benefits to both organisations and users, says Francois Smith, Dell Enterprise field marketing manager for South Africa. The business case for adopting...
Desktop PC market in terminal decline
The continued decline of South Africa’s PC market signals the end of the desktop computing era, says Brian Timperley of CloudGate -- and the question of what will ultimately replace it remains wide open. “IDC claimed recently that the PC market in Africa and the...
SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7 from Riverbed
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has announced new features for Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager, the number one virtual application delivery controller (ADC). As companies evolve toward the hybrid enterprise model with...
DHL uses Pamoja to improve back office
RUBiQ, a cloud solution that is run on cloud platform infrastructure from leading cloud services company Pamoja, has served as the platform of choice to expand DHL’s global back office systems. Preliminary testing has revealed that the project has been successful....