As organisations send more and more data into the cloud and adopt multi-cloud strategies with solutions and services from a wide range of providers, the challenge of managing these environments effectively increases. Disaster recovery (DR) in particular needs to be carefully considered. While multi-cloud offers unprecedented levels of flexibility for DR, it...
Quantum computing exists in a realm where the normal laws of physics do not apply, using qubits instead of binary to deliver unprecedented processing power, and as such potentially limitless applications. Large global entities like Google, IBM and Microsoft...
On Wednesday, 20 November 2019, IBM launched Cloud Pak for Security – featuring industry-first innovations to connect with any security tool, cloud or on-premise system, without moving data from its source. The platform is said to include open-source...
Huawei Cloud released Kunpeng ECS (Elastic Cloud Server) cloud services and Partner Program 2.0 on Wednesday, 13 November 2019. The Kunpeng-powered cloud services will be made available to African customers by the end of December 2019 and aim to offer 15%...
Microsoft Office 365 is indisputably known by many as being one of the top productivity tools for assisting organisations and workers globally. Not everyone realises, however, that Office 365’s native capabilities may not be enough to protect your...
As data moves to the cloud, data volumes continue to explode and become increasingly fragmented across devices, locations and service providers. This exponential growth of data and information ushers in the increased burden of responsibility on organisations...
This week, global tech company, IBM announced that it has designed the world’s first financial services-ready public cloud. The public cloud has been designed to help address the requirements of financial services institutions for regulatory compliance,...
Earlier this week, IBM announced that it’s introducing new capabilities to its public cloud. According to the global tech company, its public cloud uses the only commercially available state-of-art cryptographic technology. Thanks to encryption keys and...
On Wednesday, 16 October 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that South African financial services provider, Old Mutual is using AWS as its preferred cloud provider – meaning more than 1,000 applications, including its digital customer platforms,...
On Thursday, 10 October 2019, Microsoft South Africa announced the availability of Python support in Azure Functions for South Africans. As a result, developers can now build their serverless functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source and...
2019 has quickly become the year of 5G. As service providers race to build the next generation of 5G networks, they’ll need to build entire cloud-native, fully virtualised networks capable of dynamic application and device support as well. To further unpack...
At GITEX 2019, Nokia unveiled that its Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution has been implemented by OmniClouds, a cloud service provider and migrator, to improve and optimise cloud connectivity for enterprise customers throughout the Europe, Middle East and...
October 7, 2019 •
Cloud Computing, Company News •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on GITEX 2019: Batelco and Avaya support SMEs through latest collaboration
Avaya – a global communications and collaboration solutions company – announced on Monday, 7 October 2019, that Batelco – a digital solutions provider – has taken on Avaya’s market-leading portfolio of Contact Center (CC) and Unified...
Global communications company, Avaya took to the GITEX Technology Week stage to announce that it plans on bringing contact centre services to the cloud thanks to its new partnership with Microsoft. The new Avaya IX-CC offering will be available on Azure,...
“The development of the cloud over the last 15 years is one of the most significant convergences of computing and communications technologies in history,” says Alain Sanchez, Senior Evangelist for Fortinet. “It provides unprecedented agility...
September 19, 2019 •
Cloud Computing •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on Oracle, VMware partner to support customers’ hybrid cloud strategies
VMware has announced a new partnership with Oracle in a bid to help customers leverage the companies’ enterprise software and cloud solutions to make the move to the cloud. This partnership will enable customers to support their hybrid cloud strategies...
