Virtualisation solves productivity problems
VMware South Africa’s partners are providing customers the chance to explore the next evolution of virtualisation through the provision of a vSphere Optimisation Assessment, says Mark Reynolds, partner lead at VMware. With the vSphere Optimisation Assessment customers...
Tintri unveils the future of smart storage
Tintri has announced the industry’s first storage with VM-level data management support for multi-hypervisor platforms. The company will demonstrate Tintri for Hyper-V at booth 109 at Microsoft TechEd in Houston, Texas. Designed from the ground up for virtualised...
SAP, VMware boost SAP HANA
To empower customers to innovate, simplify and move toward a software-defined data centre architecture, SAP AG and VMware have announced that the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production use has been released to customers. By combining the power of SAP...
Veeam MP upgrade adds Hyper-V support
Veeam Software has announced that Veeam Management Pack (MP) v7 for System Centre will add support for Microsoft Hyper-V. In a single product, this Veeam MP release integrates fully with Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager, providing app-to-metal visibility,...
Veeam, NetApp team up for data protection
Veeam Software, innovative provider of Data Protection for the Modern Data Centre, announced it is collaborating with NetApp to create a new data protection solution for the modern data centre to enable the always-on business. Through this partnership, Veeam will...
Debunking virtualisation myths
It can be tempting to think of virtualisation as a magic potion that will automatically allow IT departments to do more with less – but, says Warren Olivier, regional manager at Veeam Software, really making it work requires some changes in attitude, approach and...
The business value of VDI
Jacques Viljoen, solutions arhitect at Datacentrix, says virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or desktop virtualisation, offers the type of technology that can provide real business benefits to South African organisations. But what is the best approach for companies...
Disaster recovery will be easier in 2014
There are a number of changes that this year will bring to organisations - whether the IT group finally gets to retire an old application or happily implements a new piece of hardware. One challenge that has been around forever is disaster recovery (DR). 2014 will see...
VMware Virtual SAN now available
VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN, VMware’s first Software-Defined Storage product. Built directly into the VMware vSphere kernel, VMware Virtual SAN provides a new tier...
Building a distributed global enterprise
The explosion of online, social and mobile technologies has resulted in a 24/7 worldwide workplace. Long gone are the days when business was confined to desktop PCs and a nine-to-five working day. Today, organisations are increasingly operating from multiple locations...
2014 will not be the year of VDI
The time has come to say goodbye to a much loved annual event: declaring the coming year as the “year of VDI”, says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix, South Africa. There is no doubt that VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) deployments will continue to grow,...
VMware broadens support for Virtual SAN
At VMware Partner Exchange 2014, VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, announced broad partner ecosystem support for VMware Virtual SAN, VMware’s first software-defined storage product. Currently available in public beta, VMware Virtual...