Infor announces CloudSuite
Infor, a leading provider of business application software, has announced Infor CloudSuite, the first group of industry-specific application suites available on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud. Infor CloudSuite provides beautiful software with deep industry...
SA still tier one as Africa moves into cloud
Despite African countries' uptake of the cloud seeming to outpace South Africa's, Red Hat continues to view the country as tier one. Research by WorldWideWorx shows that, during 2014, 24% of companies in Kenya, 44% in Nigeria and 16% in South Africa intend to use...
Manufacturers move to the cloud
Manufacturers have one thing in common – they need to make themselves hassle free from a supply chain, distribution and services point of view. Many manufacturers are looking to cloud computing to improve their process, supply chain management, R&D as well as...
NSBC boosts productivity with Microsoft
The National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) has reduced operational risk and improved productivity with Microsoft’s cloud based Office 365 Enterprise E3 solution. Few structures appreciate the importance of entrepreneurship more keenly than the National Small Business...
Cloud adoption remains slow despite benefits
While the use of cloud is increasing among South African businesses, it seems that adoption remains relatively slow. According to the Cloud in Africa: Reality Check 2013 research study released by World Wide Worx and Cisco late last year, 50% of South African medium...
Solve broadband challenges to leverage cloud
Next-generation broadband and cloud-based ICT services are two of the top emerging trends in the telecoms, media and technology space, according to Ovum Research. These two trends are intrinsically interlinked, as the cloud requires fast, efficient and available...
Check Point, VMware secure private cloud
Check Point Software Technologies and VMware have announced a collaboration in which they will automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with...
Six steps to becoming a social business
With businesses today diving into the social space at a dizzying pace, Oracle Social Cloud and Altimeter Group have released a new e-book that details how organisations can evolve across an increasingly dynamic and competitive landscape and become socially enabled...
CommVault protects cloud data
CommVault’s Simpana 10 software platform has become the data protection platform of choice for more than 200 certified service providers, which provides cloud solutions to millions of client systems worldwide and protects hundreds of petabytes of data. The company...
Cloudgate ends 40-year reign of desktop PC
Desktop computers have become a drain on the IT resources of organisations. “An IT department has a primary function: to deliver applications to end-users. Everything else - security, uptime, backups, support and maintenance - are important, but secondary to the...
Cloud bursting solves network overload
Research from World Wide Worx shows that e-commerce is growing at around 30% a year in South Africa, and that total spend on goods, services and Internet infrastructure is R59 billion. Although this is great news for business, we have to consider how servers will cope...
Orange joins EU ERP initiative
Orange Business Services has joined a European Union-sponsored initiative to play a key role in the development of new business intelligence and IT standards that are set to improve management tools used by the shipping industry. A key goal is to help shipping...