Modern data centres hinge on fast restore
The key to maintaining availability for the modern data centre is not whether you’ve protected your data by backing up - it’s how well you can recover, says Mark Perry, Aptronics business development director. Everyone loses data, all the time. The MD unthinkingly...
CA Technologies provides support for IBM z13
CA Southern Africa has revealed that CA Technologies has announced "Day One" support for IBM's z13, allowing customers to take full advantage of the z13’s advanced mobile, cloud and analytic capabilities. The new mainframe delivers unprecedented insight through secure...
Kemp LoadMaster free for local developers
The free version of Kemp Technologies’ popular LoadMaster application load balancer is now available for unlimited use, making it easy for IT developers and open source technology users to benefit from all the features of a full commercial-grade product at no cost. It...
Building systems for the always-on business
The always-on era is becoming a reality for every business: Globalisation is allowing companies to spread their operations across multiple time zones just as users are abandoning the old nine-to-five working day and want access to their e-mail and data anytime,...
The vital role of the data centre
The fundamental platform for the current rapid transformation to digitisation and convergence is the data centre. The data centre therefore has an increasingly important role to play in today’s engineering and construction industries, particularly with regard to...
Why SMBs don’t have to spend big on IT
Small business owners no longer need to see IT as a grudge purchase, says Brian Timperley from Cloudware Technologies. One of the key enablers to doing business in today’s world is technology - go into any small office, and the desktop computers and laptops on...
What to look for in a data centre partner
As enterprises digitise their businesses and adopt technologies such as social media, mobility, analytics (including big data), cloud and machine learning, along with an increasing amount of open source, their computing needs have evolved, says Milind Halapeth, Global...
Fujitsu expands Primergy line-up
Fujitsu has announced the expansion of its Primergy dual-socket server line up, with new models specifically designed to enable business growth in data centres that are limited in their overall expansion by energy and space restrictions. The new Fujitsu rack and blade servers are designed to reduce cost, improve efficiency and accelerate workloads to deliver optimum, scalable levels of productivity while still meeting specific maximum limits in terms of use of rack space, plus caps on power and cooling.
EMC announces Vspex Blue appliance
EMC Corporation has announced availability of the EMC Vspex Blue hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that delivers compute, storage, networking and management powered by VMware EVO:RAIL and EMC software. The Vspex Blue hyper- converged infrastructure appliance...
Architecting the future
A significant part of the CIO’s role is ensuring that IT aligns with the business objectives. However, while transformation has long been a buzzword in the IT industry, enterprise architecture is often pushed towards the bottom of the priority list. “Enterprise...
Legacy infrastructure hinders companies
A new version of enterprise technology that offers the whole IT suite on demand will give businesses the flexibility to deliver services at speeds demanded by customers, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. F5 Networks CTO, Karl Triebes, held a talk at...
Schneider introduces new StruxureWare
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has introduced StruxureWare Data Center Operation v7.4, which provides new capabilities, allowing companies to strike the right balance between high availability and peak efficiency throughout the data...