Dell advances, democratises high performance computing
Dell has unveiled sweeping advancements to its industry-leading high performance computing (HPC) portfolio. These advances include innovative new systems designed to simplify mainstream adoption of HPC and data analytics in research, manufacturing and genomics. Dell...
Balancing affordable IT with always-on business
The connected landscape has seen the success of the modern business largely determined by the effective application of technologies. Warren Olivier, regional manager of Veeam Southern Africa, looks at how companies need to balance customer and employee engagement with...
Siemon launches WheelHouse data centre solutions
Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, has launched WheelHouse in Africa; a complete portfolio of advanced data centre solutions. Aligning the company's established line of cable and connectivity systems, cabinets, cable management and power...
Dell disrupts Internet of Things
Dell recently announced the launch of the new Edge Gateway 5000 Series purpose-built for the building and factory automation sectors.
Network Platforms officially peers at LINX
As of September 2015, service-driven ICT solutions provider, Network Platforms, is officially peering at LINX, a London-based Internet exchange with an impressive 673 member ASNs across 65 countries. This investment provides Network Platforms' clients with faster and...
Data Centre Central 2015: bridging the gap
Top-level decision makers wanting to gain greater insight into the country's most pressing complex data centre challenges, from real-life economic, engineering and regulatory issues, should mark off 29 October 2015 on their calendars to attend the second Data Centre...
Successfully deploying data centres in emerging markets
When traveling across sub-Saharan Africa, commodities that are essential for life - such as water and electricity - are often in very short supply, writes Tomas Rahkonen, chief technology officer and vice-president eCentre at Flexenclosure. But even in the remotest of...
Next-generation solutions from Stratus
With increased storage and processing power, these latest versions support a variety of application needs from the data centre core to the network edge – transaction-centric applications such as credit card payments requiring high human touch at the core, low touch...
The strategic versus utility IT debate
Strategic IT is a term that is easily bandied about but only deserves the monicker once business leaders adopt a significant mind-set change. And this change is based on one of the most hotly contested debates within organisations: budget. By Sameer Deans, GM at...
Is hyper-converged infrastructure right for your business?
The trend toward technology convergence has accelerated in the past few years, to the point where infrastructure is now available with all hardware and software integrated into a single solution, writes Jaco Erasmus, Dell enterprise division manager at Drive Control...
VMware debuts adds scale with EVO SDDC
Designed to dramatically simplify the build out and ongoing operations of software-defined data centre at scale, VMware has announced VMware EVO SDDC and VMware Virtual SAN 6.1. Serving as the foundation of VMware's Unified Hybrid Cloud platform, the software-defined...
SDDC the foundation for hybrid cloud
Research indicates the software-defined data centre is going mainstream, as customers move from virtualising compute resources to implementing storage and network virtualisation. A new report by Research and Markets notes that the software-defined data centre market...