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Centrify appoints Mark Oldemeyer as Chief Financial Officer
Centrify, provider of cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege to secure modern enterprises, announced the company has hired Mark Oldemeyer as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Oldemeyer steps into the role previously held by current Centrify CEO, Tim Steinkopf, and will…
NetApp powers data-driven organisations to maximise value of their data
NetApp announced NetApp ONTAP 9.6, the new midrange, end-to-end NVMe AFF A320 storage system and an expanded portfolio of services to help businesses maximise the value of their data. NetApp’s cloud-connected flash solutions, an element of a Data Fabric strategy,…
Veeam and Nutanix announced Nutanix Mine
Nutanix and Veeam Software announced Nutanix Mine with Veeam. Currently, in beta testing with select customers and partners, Nutanix Mine with Veeam combines the best of both companies’ innovation – Nutanix in enterprise cloud computing and Veeam in Cloud…
Industrial automation in data centers – infrastructure of tomorrow and beyond
The dependence on data, computing power and connectivity is increasing exponentially at an unprecedented rate. We all rely on a data centre somewhere and it needs to run efficiently. The approach to energy is becoming significantly more strategic to data…
Westcon-Comstor now NetApp distribution for Sub-Saharan Africa
Westcon-Comstor has announced the appointment by NetApp, the data authority for hybrid cloud, as its distributor for Sub-Saharan Africa effective May 1, 2019. Westcon-Comstor has been a distributor in some territories for many years but can now offer NetApp solutions…
NEC XON increases F5 specialisation to help businesses move to multi-cloud environments
NEC XON is one of the only African organisations capable of maximising customer benefits from F5 Networks solutions since it recently gained rare certifications, which has improved opportunities for African organisations to adopt secure and optimised multi-cloud architectures. F5 Networks…
How communications service providers can maximise revenue with cloud
While cloud adoption among communications service providers (CSPs) in Africa is still at an early stage – with many regional operators only now beginning to implement concrete projects – Hassen Hamza, Pre-Sales & Business Development Manager, Middle East & Africa,…
Veeam announces Q1 results
Veeam Software has announced results from Q1’2019, including the obvious impact from the January launch of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, one of the largest and most anticipated product releases in the history of the company, which is now…
Angola Cables opens new data centre in Brazil
Angola Cables has opened its carrier-neutral data centre, AngoNAP Fortaleza in Fortaleza, Brazil. The Tier III designed data centre will cater for the growing demand in content and data transmission in the Southern hemisphere. This interconnection point will enable African…
HID Global announces new identity and access management platform in the cloud
HID Global has announced the availability of the new HID Authentication Service, which is part of its cloud identity platform, designed to deliver a suite of trusted identity solutions. These services make it easy to manage and use identities through…
The risks and benefits in the race to hyperscale
Organisations are looking to move big data workloads to the cloud in increasing numbers. Andrew Cruise, Managing Director at Routed, Africa’s only vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider, says the hyperscale trend is best explained within a broader push towards OPEX and…
Trend Micro enhances its Deep Security and Cloud App Security products
Trend Micro, a cybersecurity solutions company announced enhancements to its Deep Security and Cloud App Security products designed to extend protection to virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes platform protection, container image scanning integration with the Google Kubernetes…
Lenovo announces data centre portfolio upgrades
Lenovo has announced a series of upgrades to its ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data centre infrastructure portfolios, aligned with Intel’s launch of the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules. Among the solutions included in…
Modern business happens on digital platforms
For many the platform is still a foreign idea and some even consider it a temporary change. But once you wrap your head around the proposition, it is very clear that the futures of commerce and customer interactions are entirely…
Dell EMC advances PowerEdge servers
Dell EMC announced several advancements to Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. According to the company, these advancements to PowerEdge servers and OpenManage systems management enable a secure, scalable compute platform as the ideal foundation for cloud, analytics and software-defined data centre…
F5 cloud portfolio grows with cloud services
F5 Networks is rapidly growing its cloud-native application services portfolio with solutions that address a broad range of modern application development use cases with consumption models that resonate no matter where customers may be in their cloud migration journey. The…
