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Certified Cloud Foundry software improves Kubernetes infrastructure
SUSE Cloud Application Platform has been designated a Certified Cloud Foundry distribution by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The newly certified platform brings the advanced productivity of the Cloud Foundry model to Kubernetes, which is rapidly becoming the de facto standard…
Freshworks Announces Expansion Plans in Africa
Freshworks Inc, a provider of cloud-based business software, recently announced its expansion into the African market. Freshworks plans to substantially increase its commitment with specific investments in marketing, sales and partner resources to better serve its customers in the region.…
MTN and Huawei Launch the First NB-IoT Spectrum Sharing Solution
In a global first, MTN SA have successfully commercially deployed Huawei’s CloudAIR 2.0 solution to share spectrum between 2G, 3G, 4G and NB-IoT radio technologies in the 900MHz band. Following the launch of the first 5G trial in Africa, MTN…
SUSE unveils OpenStack Cloud 8 platform
SUSE has unveiled SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, its latest enterprise-ready OpenStack Cloud platform. Based on OpenStack Pike, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 is the first release to integrate the best of SUSE OpenStack Cloud and HPE OpenStack technology, which was acquired…
Nucleus research ranks Acumatica Cloud ERP highly in ERP
Cloud ERP provider Acumatica has been recognised as the leader in the ERP Technology Value Matrix by Nucleus Research, an annual ranking of ERP companies and their product offerings. Acumatica continued to dominate the highly competitive, fast-growing Cloud ERP category…
Securicom reduces data centre footprint with Cloudistics
Data centres by nature consume a lot of energy and demand for power will continue to grow as the volumes of digital information that companies store and process continue to grow. With this come increasing energy costs and cooling requirements.…
SatADSL, Global Telesat and RascomStar join forces to connect Africa
VSAT services provider SatADSL, Global Telesat – providers of telecommunication services in rural and challenging locations – and satellite operator RascomStar announced a new partnership to offer affordable satellite broadband connectivity across Africa. Under the agreement, Global Telesat will manage…
How safe is “safe” when it comes to the cloud?
Let’s address the invisible elephant in the room – cloud, and the safety debate that goes hand-in-hand with any mention of this new-age concept at the office water cooler. The fear, felt by many, as a result of placing confidential…
Jasco and Avaya to deliver cloud-based communications solutions to SMB customers in East Africa
Jasco announced it is working with Avaya, a global business communications company, to market and sell cloud-based communications solutions powered by Avaya to businesses in Africa, focusing strongly on the Kenyan market. Jasco is an end-to-end ICT provider in Southern…
Understanding the Cloud’s value for South Africa
Cloud technologies are enabling African companies to compete faster and better, for much less cost. It is the business game-changer of the 21st century. So how can businesses start taking advantage of the cloud? Africa is ready to unleash sharp…
7 ways South African enterprise cloud projects fail
South African organisations are really beginning to board the cloud train but they’re running into a number of issues and it’s causing them frustration, costing them time, and resulting in undue expense. Being aware of seven of the most common…
The cloud is nice, but local is “lekker”
Companies are buckling under the strain of ever-burgeoning enterprise data volumes. Cloud based storage trumps traditional storage infrastructure because it enables companies to accommodate expanding data volumes without buying new servers, scrounging for rack space in the server room or…
African businesses increase cloud budgets to scale operations
Cloud computing is reaching ubiquitous adoption among enterprises in Africa. Shrinking IT budgets and increasing pressure to ‘do more with less’ is making cloud computing an attractive option for businesses that want to scale their operations and digitally transform their…
Vox partners Veeam to launch cloud backup solution
Integrated ICT and communications company Vox, has collaborated with Veeam in a bid to help South African business protect their information. As companies digitise more of their operations, the data collected and stored becomes increasingly valuable to running and growing…
Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
The rapid embrace of containers in the past four years is the result of blending old technology (containers) with a new toolchain and workflow (i.e., Docker), and the cloud. In our industry, four years is a long time, but I…
Top four factors shaping the cloud computing landscape
The past few years have seen many businesses migrating to the cloud because of the virtual platform’s exceptional benefits. From shrinking IT budgets to improved data security, it’s no exaggeration to say that the cloud serves as a foundation for…
