Carrier-neutral data centres key to unlocking potential
Recently, the telecommunications industry has seen a sweeping growth in data traffic on a global scale, attributable to the smartphone boom that has taken place over the last few years, writes Eckart Zollner, head of business development at New Telco SA. This massive...
MDXi certified for SAP cloud
MainOne's data centre subsidiary, MDXi is now an SAP-certified provider of Infrastructure Services for SAP solutions. The new certification confirms the ability of the company to deliver high-quality cloud and infrastructure operations services for customers running...
Siemon launches new aisle containment solutions
Siemon has expanded its line of WheelHouse advanced data centre solutions in Africa to include comprehensive aisle containment solutions with both cold aisle containment (CAC) and hot aisle containment (HAC) options that significantly improve efficiency and...
Lenovo takes on $87bn data centre market
Lenovo has intensified its focus on the $87-billion data centre technology market by unveiling an expanded arsenal of IT solutions, including next-generation software defined storage, enterprise networking offerings and capabilities, the latest high-performance...
What SDDC means for your business
Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks, talks about software-defined everything. Shifting a lot of the management, and therefore the intelligence, to the software makes a lot of sense and it's where the industry is heading. Software-defined networking is...
Dell expands hyper-converged line-up
Dell has announced expansions to the industry's broadest hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio to help customers accelerate and simplify IT deployment and management to meet their goals now while also preparing for the future. New additions, from VCE VxRail...
Customers rely on Dell PowerEdge servers
Dell has announced that its Dell PowerEdge 13th generation servers, its most advanced and easy-to-manage server portfolio to-date, are gaining traction in the market. Customers in more than 65 countries worldwide rely on Dell PowerEdge servers to address and optimise...
Stratus is Always-On for industrial IoT
Stratus Technologies has extended its commitment to Industrial Automation worldwide with the Stratus Always-On Infrastructure for IIoT. Providing a proven always-on foundation for IIoT deployments, the Stratus solution features Stratus ftServer technology with VMware...
Data centres embrace interoperability
For many years, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have dominated the data centre infrastructure industry and it is glaringly obvious to see how this has happened, writes Christian Rookes, vice-president of product management at ProLabs. One of the most...
Network Platforms ups service, solution delivery with Teraco
Network Platforms has dramatically transformed the quality of its services and solutions since moving its data environments across to Teraco. This change has allowed the company to now take control of, and implement, multiple transit services via a number of different...
SQL Server now available on Linux
Kicking off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has also revealed plans to bring SQL Server to Linux. The company says SQL Server 2016 is the most significant release of the product yet and that it has a number of new capabilities, including:...
Digital business needs software-defined data centres
Global big data revenues are expected to grow to just under $38-billion and cloud computing service revenues to more than $4-billion in 2016 resulting in local companies rethinking their data centre strategies. Matthew Lee, Regional Manager for Africa at SUSE, looks...