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...
Fujitsu PrimeFlex achieves VMware and Microsoft certification
Fujitsu has announced the completion of VMware and Microsoft certification across its line-up of PrimeFlex integrated systems for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) based on the latest Fujitsu PRIMERGY M4 server range. This gives customers moving to HCI or scaling an...
Shift to the commodity data centre
Data is proliferating at a rapid rate. Technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices and robotics are the driving force behind this surge, with thousands of devices transmitting and receiving valuable information every millisecond. Coupled with data...
Timing key in cyber incident response
When it comes to responding to a cyber security event, it's all about timing. Responding as quickly as possible is key to minimising the fallout of a cyber attack. However, businesses still make several basic mistakes when these events occur. "Failure to respond...
Data centre management in a time of drought
Data centres are utility-hungry installations that require always-on supplies of power and cooling. This means electricity -- possibly as much as 2% of the world's energy - and often, it means water. As our demand for data, and the infrastructure in which to store it,...
Better deployment with HyperPod
Schneider Electric has released HyperPod, a rack-ready system designed to deploy IT in increments of eight to 12 racks, addressing the demand for greater computer capacity and flexible data centre architectures. Part of Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure for Data Center...
Fujitsu PrimeFlex enhances SAP environments
Fujitsu today announces two powerful new solutions designed to help organisations deploy extremely data intensive applications needed for their digital transformation, through greatly improving the ease of management for scale-out SAP HANA in-memory database...
Flexenclosure, Virtutel partner in Australia
Swedish designer and manufacturer of prefabricated data centre buildings Flexenclosure has entered in to a strategic partnership with Australian telecommunications provider Virtutel, with the intent to build up to 20 data centres across Australia. The new facilities...
Fujitsu in liquid cooling breakthrough
With trends like high performance computing and high quality client virtualisation the server density reach new heights in data centres worldwide. The increasing density often leads to power and cooling challenges for traditional air-cooled facilities. Fujitsu's new...
IS joins Nexcenter network
Internet Solutions' Parklands data centre has joined the Nexcenter network. Parklands is the first data centre in Africa to meet the stringent technology and service standards defined by the NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international...
Video surveillance demand set to increase
Mimicking global trends, South Africa can expect an increased demand for cloud storage on the back of several trends including Microsoft's recent Azure announcement. It is estimated that more than 50% of global information is now housed in a cloud and according to...