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...
Veeam enhances one-click restore feature
Good backups mean that when the CEO accidentally deletes an important e-mail, or a developer deletes an entire server by mistake, there’s no need to panic – things can be restored. But it’s always been at the cost of substantial time and effort, says Veeam South...
Citrix acquires Framehawk
Citrix has announced that it has acquired Framehawk. The Framehawk solution, which optimizes the delivery of virtual desktops and applications to mobile devices, will be combined with HDX technology in the Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop products to deliver an...
VMware updates cloud management solutions
VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has announced the general availability of new and updated offerings to the industry’s leading portfolio of management solutions purpose-built for the cloud era. These solutions – VMware vCloud...
Virtualisation aids disaster recovery
Virtualisation has helped to make disaster recovery and business continuity planning easy and affordable for even the smallest companies, says Warren Olivier, regional corporate account manager at Veeam Software – but many still aren’t taking advantage of the new...
Veeam supports recent hypervisor releases
Veeam Software has announced that its flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication, is the first data protection solution to support the most recent hypervisor releases from both VMware and Microsoft. This sets Veeam apart as the first vendor to support the latest...
KEMP introduces new load balancers
KEMP Technologies has announced the availability of three new virtual load balancers — the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) 200, 2000 and 5000, to the local market. These new virtual load balancers dramatically increases application performance enabling customers to deploy...