According to Oracle Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison, Amazon databases are 20 years behind the latest release of the Oracle Database in the Cloud.
In his keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Ellison shared detailed analysis that claimed that Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is...
The recent appointment of Risna Steenkamp as the General Manager: ESM Division at Networks Unlimited Africa underscores her rise through the ranks within this hard-working IT company, which also recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Steenkamp is well-known in the industry for taking a strongly personal approach in her business dealings...
Extortion and robbery while wearing a disguise are not new crimes in human history, but a threat actor has recently taken this into the online arena on the global stage, using distributed denial of service (DDoS) as the weapon, while pretending to be someone else.
This is as reported in...
Teraco Data Environments Proprietary Limited, one of Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services providers, has announced the completion of the JB3 data centre facility, located within the Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The company says its new billion-dollar facility represents a strategic addition to...
The connectivity space has changed drastically in the last decade mainly due to the decreasing cost of connectivity year on year. While the cost of bandwidth continues to come down, the stability and security of connectivity available to businesses have increased. Thanks to changes in technology from Leased Lines,...
Software AG has entered a strategic innovation partnership with Robert Bosch GmbH (“Bosch”) to develop new joint services and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. Furthermore, both companies today agreed to collaborate on sales activities in order to extend Bosch’s IoT cloud user base. Especially...
It was announced in Johannesburg on Thursday that Datacentrix, a provider of high performance ICT solutions, has attained Gold UNITY Partner certification with F5 Networks. Datacentrix, a market leader in application delivery, is one of only two local companies to hold this level of accreditation.
Some of the prerequisites to...
IBM is introducing a new cloud object storage service that redefines the security, availability and economics of storing, managing and accessing massive amounts of digital information across hybrid clouds. The company’s breakthrough new IBM Cloud Object Storage offering derives from IBM's acquisition of Cleversafe and its significant portfolio of...
Microsoft and SAS have announced an extensive technology and go-to-market strategic partnership that hopes to enable customers to easily run their SAS workloads in the cloud, expanding their business solutions and unlocking critical value from their digital transformation initiatives.
As part of the partnership, the companies will migrate SAS’ analytical...
Nutanix, a leader in private cloud, hybrid, and multicloud computing, has released the local data from its third global Enterprise Cloud Index survey, showing how South African companies compare with the rest of the globe regarding their hybrid cloud adoption in 2020.
South African organisations are still transitioning to a...
