Moving Microsoft Exchange to the cloud

Organisations wanting to move Microsoft Exchange to a private or public cloud need to consider five best practices if they want the transition to be easy and successful. That’s according to Andrew Crosley, Dimension Data’s General Manager for Microsoft, who says while...

Cloud, mobile to drive disruption

Cloud and mobile are expected to continue to gain momentum as the most disruptive technologies in consumer and business markets over the next three years, according to the Global Technology Innovation survey by KPMG. The technology leaders also expect biometrics and...

Oracle transforming into cloud company

Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bunked his keynote today for a climactic America’s Cup, but executive vice-president for product development, Thomas Kurian, ably picked up the ball and made three new cloud announcements he...

Planning for a post-SharePoint world

On-premises SharePoint is slowly on its way out, says Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann – and companies had better start preparing for a cloud-based future. “28% of companies use SharePoint across their entire workforce,” says Mann, “and if you only count companies...

Cloud is about more than cost-cutting

Analysts such as Gartner have long said that the cloud isn’t about recession-busting or cutting costs any more – but perhaps it never was, says 1Stream director, Bruce von Maltitz. “I think there has always been massive confusion about the cloud and cost-savings. Most...