Tag archive for ‘cloud computing’
By Staff Writer On Monday, June 4th, 2012
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The cloud is coming, but what happens until it’s here?

With the cloud computing era promising to take the management burden associated with running an organisation’s infrastructure, software and support environments away, you’d think that CIOs would be looking forward More...

By Charlie Fripp On Friday, May 4th, 2012
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Microsoft supports SA startups with free cloud services

$60 000 of free cloud computing over two years? Sound too good to be true? But it’s exactly what Microsoft will be offering a select few local small software businesses through its BizSpark Plus initiative, a More...

By Charlie Fripp On Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
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Cloud Summit East Africa to kick off in Kenya

The inaugural Cloud Summit East Africa, proudly supported by the Kenyan ICT Board, will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi from 5 to 6 June 2012. The inaugural Cloud Summit East Africa will be held More...

By Charlie Fripp On Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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IT News Africa’s Publisher discusses cloud computing

In an interview with Cloud Computing Live, IT News Africa’s CEO and Executive Editor Abby Wakama discussed the future of cloud computing in Africa, and touched on his guest speaker appearance at the Cloud Computing More...

By Charlie Fripp On Friday, March 9th, 2012
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Q&A: Anglo Platinum’s Head of Information Management

During the IT Leaders Africa Summit which gathered IT and business executives from different African industries, we caught up with Anglo Platinum’s Head of Information Management Shawn Fisher, to find out what More...

By Charlie Fripp On Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
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Cloud outlook getting clearer

Unified communications (UC) cloud delivery outlook is getting brighter as bandwidth supply and costs are addressed. Bennie Langenhoven, Tellumat Communications Solutions Managing Executive, discusses the future More...

By Wakama Abby On Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
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IBM workshop up for grabs

During ITNewsAfrica’s next Innovation Dinner, IBM will give one lucky Innovation Dinner attendee the opportunity to participate in IBM’s one-day Cloud Exploration Workshop for free. This workshop is valued at More...

By Charlie Fripp On Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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Migrating to cloud? Ensure it has a silver lining

Despite international uptake, cloud computing has been slow to gain traction in the local market.  However, no one can dispute cloud computing’s benefits in several Information Communication Technology (ICT) More...

By Wakama Abby On Monday, February 20th, 2012
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IT News Africa partners with IBM on Innovation Dinner

The next IT News Africa Innovation Dinner will be held in partnership with IBM (image: file) Africa’s technology news leader, IT News Africa (www.itnewsafrica.com), today announced that the next Innovation Dinner More...

By Charlie Fripp On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Video: Cisco Unified Data Center

Introducing the Cisco Unified Data Center the integrated approach for compute, network , storage , security and management in the data center which achieves business agility, financial efficiency and IT simplification.  More...