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Why Digital Transformation Needs DRaaS to Succeed
While industries across the world are dominated by digital transformation initiatives, Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed, says that considering a cloud-first strategy is only one of two current imperatives: “Disaster Recovery (DR) planning needs to be a significant part of…
Investment in Digital Transformation is Expected to Reach $7.4 trillion by 2023, says Report
As organizations look to transform their business operations and revolutionize customer service, Digital Transformation (DX) is at the top of most CXOs’ agendas; in fact, DX spending is expected to approach $7.4 trillion between 2020 and 2023, a CAGR of 17.5%. However,…
How Using Cloud Can Increase Security for Remote Working During the Pandemic
The cloud can enable organisations to quickly scale out enhanced security to a suddenly remote workforce, as part of efforts to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery – this is according to Patrick Grillo, Senior Director and Solutions Marketing at…
CIOs Should Embrace the Opportunities of a Post-lockdown Market
As South Africa enters the tenth week of the nationwide lockdown, the business focus has shifted from enabling employees to work remotely to now planning for what the new normal is likely to look like. This requires CIOs to balance…
Use of Cloud Collaboration Tools Surge Across the World and So Do Attacks
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed companies to adapt to new government-mandated restrictions on workforce movement around the world. The immediate response has been a rapid adoption and integration of cloud services, particularly cloud-based tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Slack…
Vodacom Welcomes Launch of AWS Data Centres in South Africa
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – alongside launching its next wave of data centres in South Africa – has partnered with Vodacom to grow the South African mobile networks offering further and deliver improved business, cloud and other solutions to its…
IBM and Red Hat Introduce New Edge Computing Solutions
IBM has introduced a new range of services and solutions backed by a broad ecosystem of partners to help enterprises and telecommunications companies speed their transition to edge computing in the 5G era. This effort combines IBM’s experience and expertise…
Why COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Internet
In the face of a rapid worldwide traffic explosion from private, public and government entities all across the world, there was some worry from experts that the increasing surge in bandwidth would be too much for the internet’s infrastructure to…
AWS Data Centers Launch in South Africa
Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially launched its Cape Town region today, 22 April 2020. According to Amazon, an AWS Region in Africa could enable businesses and government organisations, including those focused on fighting the effects of COVID-19, to build cloud…
Nutanix Appoints New Sales VP and COO
Enterprise cloud computing company, Nutanix has appointed Keith Moran to Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas and Dave Gwyn to Worldwide Sales Chief Operating Officer, both effective May 1, 2020. The role of Senior Vice President of Sales…
CCaaS gaining traction among Kenyan SMEs
Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) is fast becoming the preferred solution for contact centre operators across the globe, as it offers scalability as and when the operational needs of an enterprise change and provides several advantages over traditional on-premise…
The Time for Automating Datacentres is Here
The need to save on day-to-day operational expenses and minimise physical and carbon footprints are driving the move to virtual datacentres – even more so now with the COVID-19 pandemic. This shows that Africa’s cloud services space is evolving and…
Huawei and Tencent Join Chinese National Group on Blockchain
China’s major technology giants are amongst a group of organizations that have joined a national committee focused on creating standards for blockchain technology, reports CNBC. The move is part of a major push by the world’s second-largest economy, China, to…
New Windows Patch Fixes 113 Security Flaws
Microsoft’s new Patch Tuesday update for April fixes 113 vulnerabilities across 11 different Microsoft products. Included in the vulnerability fixes are patches for three unique zero-day bugs that are being exploited on Windows PCs. [Tweet “Included in the vulnerability fixes…
Google Makes Stadia Game-Streaming Service Free
Google is removing the $130 entry fee for its Stadia cloud-gaming service indefinitely. Giving anyone and everyone access to its catalogue of AAA video games during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the NY Times. This move gives people in 14 countries…
Moving to Cloud Could Be a Crucial Business Response to COVID-19
The current lockdown is testing the ability of businesses to adapt quickly to changing market conditions. Companies that have embraced more digital ways of working have been far less impacted. Several slower respondents are turning their focus away from only…
