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...
Cloud levels the playing field for SMEs
While technology has long been regarded as the great leveller of the business playing field by enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to compete more effectively with corporate giants, there is a widespread belief that much of the most advanced business...
Legal firms and cloud migration
The adoption of cloud solutions within many organisations is gaining momentum. This is allowing for the upgrading of application capabilities and increased agility of IT infrastructure without the need for large capital outlay around on-premise data centres, says...
vCloud Hybrid Service available in Europe
VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has announced the general availability of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service in Europe from a data centre in Slough, UK. Complementing VMware’s existing US data centres, the Slough data centre provides...
VMware, Google modernise corporate desktops
VMware has announced that it is joining forces with Google to modernise corporate desktops for the mobile cloud era by providing businesses with secure, cloud access to Windows applications, data and desktops on Google Chromebooks. This expanded relationship between...
Oracle enhances Eloqua solution
Extending its commitment to helping CMOs and their global marketing teams optimise the customer experience and execute marketing campaigns that have a measurable impact on revenue, Oracle has introduced new functionality and enhancements to Oracle Eloqua. With the...
Governments reap cloud rewards
It’s widely accepted that cloud computing is transforming organisations across all industries, and affording business that adopt cloud technologies massive savings as well as other benefits. The private sector was first to realise this and capitalise on cloud’s...