Scepticism around cloud adoption in Africa

There is a level of apprehension when it comes to the adoption of cloud services in Africa and publicised data leak issues like the US’ National Security Agency (NSA) Prism programme have not helped. However, the situation calls for perspective say experts and cloud...

PRISM break: US cloud customers defect

In June, thanks to one of its now former and very famous employees blowing the whistle, the news broke that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) was using a programme, code-named PRISM, to spy on e-mails, Internet phone calls, file transfers, photos, videos and...

SA data users need the cloud

The rollout and adoption of cloud services in South Africa is inhibited by extraneous circumstances. And there is currently little optimism that these constraints will soon be overcome, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID). In the world...

Software resellers still needed in cloud era

Ever since the cloud has appeared and rapidly expanded, many have warned that it would rain on the parade of several ICT channel players, even threatening to wash some of them away entirely. Those said to be  especially at risk of extinction due to the advent of the...

SUSE Cloud 2.0 aids cloud deployment

Based on OpenStack Grizzly, SUSE Cloud 2.0 provides users with the capability to set up a mixed hypervisor private cloud evironment which can be rapidly deployed and easily managed. “It is a solution that that helps enterprises to become more agile while reducing IT...