Attix5, IS partner on SME offering
International data security and business recovery specialist Attix5 has joined forces with Internet Solutions (IS) to supply it with a cloud backup solution that has been incorporated into the IS Ignite SME business offering. Designed to enable SMEs to do business...
Businesses boom with backup revolution
The evolution of technology used to perform mission-critical data backups and support disaster recovery means that any sized organisation can be effectively protected, despite increasing data volumes and the demands of digitisation. Specialists in data protection...
Dell adopts newest flash drive
Dell has become the first storage array provider to announce adoption of the industry’s newest, highest-density and lowest-cost for performance enterprise flash drives, helping organisations of all sizes to drastically reduce costs associated with storing and managing their valuable data and IT applications.
Learning from the MSP revolution
Global data growth is expanding at an incredible rate. In just the last two years, 90% of the world’s extant data has been created, says Bryan Balfe, enterprise account manager at CommVault. Given the explosion of low cost storage and mobile devices, there is every...
Jasco expands Avid offering
The Jasco Group has recently announced Avid’s ISIS | 1000 shared storage system to the local market, providing independent video and audio professionals and facilities the same level of real-time collaboration proven for over a decade on the most demanding productions...
Cloud backups prevent the death of data
Over the past two years the uptake of pure cloud backup by smaller businesses has burgeoned as the idea of saving company data to the cloud has become easier for companies to digest, and bandwidth has become faster and cheaper. Securicom’s Richard Broeke says looking...
Obsidian, Attix5 safeguards client data
A close-knit partnership between open source (OS) software supplier Obsidian Systems and global developer and provider of data protection software and cloud solutions Attix5 has resulted in unprecedented levels of data protection and backup for clients. Recognised as...
Gear up for POPI with practical info storage
The Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act is currently a hot topic, given the imminent nature of its implementation, says Simeon Tassev, director of Galix, reseller of Mimecast Solutions in South Africa. Since the penalties for contravention of the Act can be...
Dell reduces enterprise flash storage costs
Dell is the first storage array provider to announce adoption of the industry’s newest, highest-density and lowest-cost-for-performance enterprise flash drives, helping organisations of all sizes to significantly reduce costs associated with storing and managing their...
SanDisk reaches 2bn microSD card milestone
SanDisk Corporation has announced it has shipped more than two-billion microSD cards since it started commercial shipment of the technology 10 years ago. The company commemorates this milestone on the eve of Mobile World Congress Shanghai. Invented by SanDisk in 2004,...
Tintri announces support for OpenStack
South Africa's leading value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited, has announced that Tintri, its networking product partner, now offers support for OpenStack environments on Tintri’s VMstore storage platform. Support is now available for Tintri’s OpenStack Juno...
Big Success rolls out WD My Cloud EX2
Background Big Success is an advertising agency developing TV ads for ‘challenger brands.’ Founded in 2004 with two offices operating in ten countries, they now manage more than 150 clients, creating and producing thousands of TV and Web commercials for companies that...