Seagate enhances storage portfolio

To address the dramatic growth in data creation and consumption, Seagate has announced a series of significant product updates that support its mission to lead the world in storing, sharing and protecting data. Amongst the releases is a new Cloud Systems and Solutions...

Why cloud falls short for enterprise storage

Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Organisations are looking to the cloud to meet their future data centre needs – but they could run into problems if they store their enterprise data in today’s public cloud. Noam Shendar,...

European firms not rushing to the cloud

A new survey by International Data Corporation (IDC) has discovered that European IT departments still need to make significant improvements before they have fully embraced cloud architectures and transformed themselves into internal (cloud) service providers. When...

African contact centres move to the cloud

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium – Within Africa, the contact centre has been a very slow in moving to the cloud – but that move is starting to happen. Deon Scheepers, sales operations manager: Africa at Interactive Intelligence, warns that there are...

Africa benefits from KEMP certification

KEMP Technologies, the full-featured virtual load balancer software provider, has announced that its Virtual LoadMaster has achieved VMware Ready-vCloud Air status. This designation indicates that the Virtual LoadMaster has undergone technical validation within the...