Look before making the cloud leap
Cloud storage is attractive for many reasons. The amounts of data – e-mails, video, documents, images and so on – that businesses produce is astronomical, and storing this data in a data centre can be prohibitively expensive. Cloud storage costs a fraction of this, a...Cloud brings convenience to Africa
A lot of myths pervade when it comes to cloud in Africa. In the not-so-distant past, to get their technology infrastructure up and running, companies would purchase or license all their business software and run applications from work PCs or access these programs from...Oracle grows its cloud business
Oracle has reported that fiscal 2014 Q4 total revenues were up 3% to $11,3-billion. Software and cloud revenues were up 4% to $8,9-billion.
Mobile Africa is ready for cloud
There is a massive opportunity for cloud service providers (CSPs) to capitalise on Africa’s rapid adoption of mobile network technology.