Virtualisation should be defined by convenience and control
Across South Africa, businesses are rethinking their virtualisation strategies. Rising licensing costs, tightening budgets, and inflexible commercial models are forcing IT leaders to ask a tough question: Are we still getting value from our current virtualisation...
The transformative power of desktop, application virtualisation
Desktop and application virtualisation has become an indispensable technology for businesses aiming to deliver secure and efficient digital workspaces to their hybrid workforce. By Helen Kruger, CEO of Troye By centralising applications and desktops through...
Huawei Cloud targets SA’s virtualisation challenges
Huawei Cloud has moved to help South African businesses overcome soaring costs and licensing challenges in the virtualisation space, offering secure, seamless and highly cost-effective alternatives to legacy virtualisation solutions. A roadshow staged in Johannesburg,...
Stanlib enables remote working with Nutanix
South African financial services company Stanlib is working with Nutanix to secure additional nodes that enable the organisation to provide virtual desktops to employees that have been required to work from home during the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the...
Troye upbeat about next-generation solutions on Google Cloud Platform
Managed IT services provider Troye is upbeat about next-generation networking solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Citrix recently announced that Citrix SD-WAN and Citrix ADC will soon be available on GCP, enabling experience-driven application performance and...
XenServer 7.6 available from Troye
Troye has announced the availability of Citrix XenServer 7.6. While there are several new features in 7.6 that enhance and extend the capabilities of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, support for thin provisioning on block storage for virtual disk storage repositories...
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS certified for SAP HANA
Nutanix has annnounced that its AHV hypervisor and Enterprise Cloud OS platform hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, has met SAP's criteria for running production SAP HANA deployments. SAP has certified the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS platform with AHV...
Availability … the next frontier
The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and business reliance on the ability to analyse and use this data has become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and customer loyalty. By Kate Mollett, regional...
T-Systems teams with VMware on VCN
VMware a leading innovator in enterprise software, has announced that T-Systems has added highly-integrated virtual cloud networking capabilities to its popular DSI vCloud service. Enabled by VMware NSX Data Center, these new functions allow customers of the Deutsche...
Making VM performance management practical
In today's highly-virtualised, hyper-converged technology world, new data centre tools and technologies can become quite abstract and conceptual. "The data centre realm is certainly becoming more complex," says Anton Jacobsz, MD of Networks Unlimited. "Data volumes...
Compliance requires an evolved availability approach
Let's face it, data compliance is hardly a new thing. But given the extent at which the reliance of organisations on data has grown in recent years, its level of importance has increased exponentially. Simply put, fall foul of the regulatory environment and the...
Mauritius Union Group goes web-scale with Nutanix
The Mauritius Union Group (MUA), a financial services company based in Mauritius, recently replaced its core IT infrastructure with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software, enabling the company to incorporate storage, networking and compute in a single infrastructure...