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The short shift to cloud computing
‘Lift-and-shift’ – the classic approach to cloud migration – means this: take all your existing IT structures, procedures and applications and transfer them to the cloud. On paper, such an approach seems sensible. Yet, while cloud migration may mean the…
South Africa: Liquid Telecom and Huawei to deliver 100G links
African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of Econet Global, and Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced on Wednesday 8 November 2017 at AfricaCom 2017 in Cape Town that the companies have partnered in order…
Rectron adds Microsoft CSP to cloud portfolio
Rectron, a South Africa distributor of IT products, has announced the addition of Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme to its portfolio, enabling clients to drive their Microsoft cloud business. “In a business environment where companies, big and small, are…
The cloud is remaking African business
Africa is primed for a wave of digital innovation. Submarine communication cables now flank both of the continent’s edges, studding the African coastline with a number of fibre termination points. Wireless, copper and fibre last-mile connections are keeping an ever-greater…
Angola Cables becomes Microsoft ExpressRoute partner
Angolan telecommunications multinational, Angola Cables, announced on 3 November 2017 that it has become a Microsoft ExpressRoute partner in an attempt to meet the needs of Africa-based organisations, who are migrating their business applications and IT infrastructures to the cloud.…
Teraco named Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Connectivity Partner
On Thursday 2 November 2017, Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest neutral data centre, announced it will be a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Connectivity partner. This partnership will allow them to provide clients with a private network connection to Microsoft Azure and…
How AI phones can keep your data safe
Not too long ago, only two things were guaranteed – death and taxes. However, in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution, businesses can almost be assured of a cyber-security breech in the near future. Just last week, South Africans…
Using cloud for African insurance expansion
With many insurers looking at business expansion into Africa, the opportunity exists to embrace cloud-based solutions more fully to deliver solutions for these new markets. Patrick Ashton, managing executive of Cirrus, a subsidiary of the SilverBridge Group, examines if this…
Hitachi Vantara launches cloud enabled data recovery solution
Hitachi Vantara, a company that offer data-driven solutions has introduced the latest version of its specialised data recovery platform, Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) v6, which significantly modernises IT environments and how data is protected. According to the company, the…
Report highlights organisations harnessing the cloud for innovation and success
A report spearheaded by HotTopics.ht and sponsored by application security and cloud company F5 Networks, has revealed the top fifty EMEA businesses innovating in the cloud. The Top 50 EMEA Cloud Climbers Report is the first study of its kind…
Study: Moving to IaaS is fundamental to remaining competitive
On Monday 16 October 2017, Oracle, a cloud provider company, revealed the findings of their latest global survey of 1,610 IT professionals. According to the company, the proportion of businesses reaping the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services has increased…
Securing the cloud in a complex threat environment
Although cloud computing can be counted as one of the biggest trends of the moment, it is presenting data and security challenges, particularly in the complex threat landscape we live in today. Cloud brings a new consumption and delivery model…
Local data centres crucial in fight against unemployed
South Africa’s sluggish economic growth continues to be roundly outpaced by our population growth, as business confidence remains uncertain and job creation falters. One of the effects is a rising unemployment level, which according to Stats SA, has now reached…
Leverage analytics to unlock true value of IoT innovation
With analysts estimating that up to 80 billion devices and sensors will be in the market by 2020, the need for real-time processing and analytics has escalated as companies work to realise the up to $8.9 trillion in additional revenue…
Using cloud effectively for disaster recovery – what questions do you need to ask?
Disaster recovery (DR) is synonymous with cost and layers of complexity but cloud – together with a cloud-ready DR solution – can remove a lot of that pain, and provide huge benefits besides. However, to effectively use cloud for DR,…
Paperless gains momentum for mobile millennial customers
The shift toward cloud and paperless is fast gaining momentum as the new global cohort of millennial customers demand digital and mobile business options. According to Craig Leppan, business development manager at Assimilated Information Systems (AIS), an e4 company, digital…
