SMEs brace for change as technology shifts

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa face a dramatic shift in technology use as the triple impact of social media, cloud computing and the “bring your own device” trend transforms the competitive landscape. Are they ready for the coming change? That is...

Cloud spending to triple by 2017

An increasing move on the part of enterprise businesses to migrate their IT services, applications and infrastructure to a cloud-based architecture will cause market revenue in this segment to surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017, according to HIS Technology....

Making sense of the major cloud inhibitors

It’s easy to see why there is so much interest among companies to learn more about how they can benefit from cloud, says Mark Ridley, regional director for Africa, NetApp. The advent of cloud brings great promise for IT organisations to meet increasingly demanding...

Symantec, Pamoja partner on cloud rollout

Pamoja Africa, the cloud services business unit of Seacom, has entered into a partnership with Symantec to distribute Symantec’s suite of cloud services in sub-Saharan Africa. The alliance will ensure that Pamoja’s expanding channel and service provider ecosystem has...

When should users buy into the cloud?

Companies face important IT challenges today. Not only do they have to deploy and run their business applications with agility, their infrastructures need to scale to support growth while maintaining quality of service – all in a cost-efficient manner, says Richard...