Afrihost adds services, drops cloud costs

Afrihost has extended its cloud hosting services. The company will be offering a more expansive range of dedicated cloud solutions, as well as revising their current offerings to cater for a wider range of options from personal to corporate requirements. Its new...

EMC Isilon NAS supports cloud, analytics

At EMC World 2013, EMC announced that it is preparing the next version of its EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system. Building on the successful late-2012 launch of OneFS 7.0 (“Mavericks”), the next version of Isilon’s industry-leading operating system will...

Creating an African cloud services market

The small to medium sized market is predicted to be one of the fastest and most active adopters of cloud computing services going forward.  This is the view of experts in the field who believe that the African market is ideally conditioned for the establishment and...

Adobe drops boxed products

Adobe is to move away from boxed products entirely, and will make its Creative Suite – to be known as Creative Cloud – available only on a subscription model. The company has said it will not release new versions of the packaged suite, which includes InDesign,...

Mobile development will move to the cloud

By 2016, 40% of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud back-end services, causing development leaders to lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises, predicts Gartner.  Cloud mobile back-end services provide a...