Embracing location independent computing
The explosion of mobile, cloud and social technologies has dramatically changed the business landscape. Today, distance is no longer a barrier to business success. An organisation’s applications, data centre and offices can be opposite sides of the world, yet the...
10 questions to ask data centre providers
All businesses that are looking to outsource their data needs, instead of buying, maintaining and hosting their own servers in their own server rooms or data centres, need to do their homework first. That’s the view of Debbie Pretorius, GM of MWeb Business, who points...
Teraco connects to over 55 countries
Launched two years ago, the Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX) from Teraco Data Centre Environments now provides access to 54 African countries via local and global carriers. ACX aims to provide a secure data centre environment for cloud providers to co-locate and onward...
Johnson Controls a preferred Cisco provider
Johnson Controls, a global multi-industrial company, is now Cisco’s preferred provider to construct, cool and monitor its data centres, as companies rely more on cloud computing to support their business operations in today’s increasingly mobile, connected...
The data centre of the future
Six years since opening its doors, Teraco Data Environments, a sub-Saharan Africa’s first provider of resilient, vendor neutral data environments, says the path to 2020 will provide an equivalent amount of innovation and evolution as the data centre becomes an even...
Decreasing the cost of downtime
While IT managers dread system downtime, the harsh reality is that even the best plans and preparation cannot prepare for every circumstance. Pieter van der Merwe, Availability Solutions Architect, Africa & Middle East at Stratus Technologies, says here it is...
Dell introduces new products at User Forum
Dell has introduced a series of new enterprise appliances and integrated systems at the Dell User Forum, aimed at driving simplicity and ease of use across the data centre, to help customers achieve quicker business insights and agility.
Kemp ADC now offers HP controller
Kemp Technologies has announced that its full featured Virtual LoadMaster ADC now provides L2-7 load balancing with SDN Adaptive technology through the HP VAN (virtual application networks) controller. This allows customers to build application environments that truly...
Cloud on Demand moves to Teraco
South African cloud vendor and hybrid cloud enablement partner, Cloud on Demand, has selected Teraco Data Environments as its second point of presence and one of its local deployment locations for its VMWare platform. This move ensures that the company is able to...
New version of Enterprise Manager released
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 lets organisations rapidly adopt Oracle-based, enterprise-scale private clouds. New capabilities provide advanced technology stack management, secure database administration, and enterprise service governance, enabling Oracle...
Stratus adds to everRun Enterprise
Stratus Technologies has announced the general availability of two anticipated additions to everRun Enterprise, its next-generation software-based availability solution – selectable availability and Split-site Cross Campus downtime prevention. Enterprises now have the...
More SMEs moving servers off-site
Rising electricity costs and the uncertain reliability of the power supply are two key factors that are driving a growing trend among small and medium-sized businesses to move their servers out of their premises into dedicated, shared data centres. That’s according to...