Gartner recognises Dell products
Dell has announced that Gartner has recognised Dell across enterprise product lines. The IT industry analyst firm positioned Dell as a leader in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Modular Servers, a visionary in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking, and gave...
Eliminate junk data to boost data centres
Junk data is like a disease eating away at the heart of the modern data centre, says Veeam Southern Africa region manager Warren Olivier: “It’s an invisible tumour chewing up resources, and can cause everything from poor performance to sudden failure of whole storage...
Vendor collaboration boosts data centres
The spectre of vendor lock-in has long haunted CIOs and IT managers - but, says Veeam regional manager for Southern Africa Warren Olivier, a new wave of collaboration, inspired by virtualisation and the new possibilities it unlocks, is changing the landscape...
Kemp Technologies updates LoadMaster
Kemp Technologies has released a new line of high performance application delivery controllers (ADCs) enabling customers to scale as their application performance and security needs evolve.The 5000 series targets medium and larger enterprises with high transaction...
AudioCodes expands appliance offering
AudioCodes, a leading provider of converged voice solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to transition to all-IP voice networks, recently introduced the expansion of the AudioCodes One Box 365 family of appliances with two new models. Building on the...
Software-defined application services
The agility and efficiency that organisations have already derived from virtualisation is just the beginning, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. Enterprises and cloud service providers have made huge strides in virtualising core sections of their...
Dell expands four-socket server portfolio
Dell has announced an expansion of its 13th generation PowerEdge servers including the PowerEdge R930, Dell’s most powerful server specifically designed for the most demanding enterprise applications such as in-memory databases, customer relationship management (CRM)...
Dell introduces new PowerEdge server
Dell has announced an expansion of its 13th generation PowerEdge servers including the PowerEdge R930, Dell’s most powerful server specifically designed for the most demanding enterprise applications such as in-memory databases, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Once the domain of UNIX systems, these enterprise applications are increasingly shifting to x86 platforms for increased innovation, additional capabilities and lower total cost of ownership.
Dell boosts open networking data centre
Dell Networking has expanded its data center portfolio with the new Z9100, S4048, and the S3038, giving customers operating system choices with low latency and high density, flexible 1, 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE switching to address the shift to next-generation...
Lenovo strengthens server portfolio
Lenovo has debuted its ThinkServer family of products in South Africa, strengthening the company’s portfolio to offer a one-stop solution for enterprises and small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients. The ThinkServer product portfolio includes Rack Servers suited...
Netshield offers data centre in a box
Local ICT developer and innovator, Netshield, is challenging the way the industry approaches IT with its Data Centre in a Box, a self-contained IP 54 rated mobile unit that gives business the power to wheel in, plug and go an entire IT infrastructure that can be...
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...