Data centre energy efficiency a priority
As our appetite for all things IT and digital continues to grow, the need for data centres continues to grow, with more and more data centres erected, and much bigger than they were before. This places a tremendous amount of pressure on the electrical power utility...
Power efficiency in data centre infrastructure
Reducing energy consumption in South Africa is a national imperative. Hyperscalers currently investing in South Africa, and those planning on doing so in the future will have to take this into consideration when designing their facilities. By Sameer Cassim, R&D...
Hitachi Vantara advances IT infrastructure portfolio
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has significantly expanded and enhanced its IT infrastructure portfolio to help customers modernise their data centres. These enhancements include Hitachi's first all-NVMe hyperconverged system which delivers...
Helping service providers to meet changing customer expectations
As a service provider, you have to find new ways to attract new customers, retain existing customers and add new services all the time. Customers are constantly looking for new services, so you have to be on top of your game. And the market is getting a lot more...
Manage the hybrid cloud with Enterprise Service Catalogue Manager
CIOs have a tough job nowadays: they have to make sure the various applications, services and solutions consumed by users all fit together, and work in the best interests of the organisation. There is a wealth of services available to users, and CIOs need to ensure...
Service providers build on a solid foundation
Service providers have to ensure their services run 24/7 with no delays or performance issues. This means their hardware platform has to be top-quality and reliable. Fujitsu meets this need with a portfolio tailored for service providers that offers higher...
Miele protects applications with F5 Networks
Miele, the domestic appliance manufacturer, now deploys solutions from F5 in two areas: as a reverse proxy, and web application firewall, which provides additional protection of web applications. They offer flexible options for integration into existing systems,...
Dell EMC launches PowerEdge MX
Dell EMC is launching Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, the industry's newest high-performance, modular infrastructure, designed to support a wide variety of traditional and emerging data centre workloads. PowerEdge MX offers the first modular infrastructure architecture...
Data centres hyperscale Africa’s ability to transform
Digital transformation is reshaping every industry and sector, because of agile technologies like software defined data centres. By Sameer Cassim, R&D systems architect at Internet Solutions Companies are moving their workloads into the cloud due to aging...
Fujitsu transforms data centre management
Fujitsu has released an upgraded version of its Infrastructure Management software, to simplify and centralise the operations and monitoring of entire IT infrastructure environments. The powerful software delivers major cost and power savings, combined with improved...
The data centre of the future
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town - Adopting a modern data centre is less about technology, and more about a new way of thinking. This is the message from Ossama El Samadoni, regional director: modern data centre at Dell EMC, who points out that...
Obsidian, HashiCorp partner on data centre architecture
Open Source technology and services specialist Obsidian Systems has become an official HashiCorp partner and will provide the South African market with access to next generation data centre management solutions. HashiCorp was established in 2012 to revolutionise data...