Why should you bet on Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud computing services to help organisations meet their business challenges. Azure gives companies have the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using their preferred tools and...
Storage eases digital transformation
Kathy Gibson is at AfricaCom in Cape Town - Huawei has launched a new storage solution to address the needs of customers moving into digital transformation. Andy Xu, vice-president: intelligent storage product line at Huawei, says digital transformation is key to...
Not all storage is created equal …
Modernising your workspace could be as easy as utilising scalable, cost-effective cloud storage for all your unstructured data. Azure Blob storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimised for storing massive amounts of...
Fujitsu delivers next-generation storage performance
Fujitsu has announces its extended line-up of Eternus AF S3 all-flash arrays and Eternus DX S5 hybrid storage systems. Designed to support the new paradigms of digitalization, this new generation of storage systems is performance-optimized to easily manage the immense...
An Introduction to Cloud Computing
As a constantly-evolving field, it can be difficult to keep up with the developments in cloud computing, let alone dive into it. So, let’s take a look at what it is, and what it offers you. What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is when you access computing...
Veritas brings data protection to the edge
Veritas Technologies has unveiled the Veritas Flex 5150 appliance, a complete data protection solution purpose built for the edge of enterprise networks. The Flex 5150 is the first appliance from Veritas to bring the NetBackup enterprise-class data protection to edge,...
PDSA migrates to the cloud
Businesses need the assurance Office 365 will be fully protected when they migrate core infrastructure to the cloud. The need is more pressing when it comes to not-for-profit organisations, the majority of which rely on funding and sponsorship to continue to provide...
Infinidat named a primary storage leader
Infinidat has been named a Leader by Gartner Inc. in the new Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage. The company recently announced its Elastic Data Fabric vision for storing, sharing and generating value out of multi-petabyte datasets across on-premises and cloud...
Commvault named as leader in data resiliency
Commvault has been positioned by Forrester as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2019. In this Forrester Wave, Commvault was top ranked in the Current Offering category, as well as in the Data Sources and Manageability criteria. In addition,...
Spend your backup budget wisely
In increasingly connected world, being able to continuously access mission-critical data is a business necessity. Yet, organisations are often not managing their budgets as effectively as possible when it comes to backup and availability. It all starts with how the...
Data backups: start with what you can’t afford to lose
Toy Story 2 almost didn't happen. Somewhere during the 3D animated movie's production, an administrator accidentally destroyed all of the movie's data assets, including the meticulously crafted models and animations. Were it not for the technical director, who made...
Hyperscale – putting secondary storage to work
It is a myth that organisations have to be huge to leverage hyperscale solutions. The simple truth is that data is growing a lot faster than storage budgets, which is proving challenging to businesses that do not have the resources of their larger counterparts. By...