South Africa is currently battling its worst drought in decades. The drought disaster has a negative impact on social, environmental and economic stability and continues to pose a major threat to food security throughout the world. The ultimate knock-on effect could see farmers closing their farms, which will subsequently lead to labour lay-offs. For […]
According to industry analysts 451 Research, prefabricated modular data centres are evolving rapidly and beginning to win mainstream support, stating: “prefabrication is ready to transform the data centre world”. This is more than likely due to today’s new generation of cloud computing solutions, which demands that data centres are more flexible and scalable, with an […]
Westcon-Comstor expanded its data centre practice to include VMware’s portfolio of cloud infrastructure and business mobility solutions in South Africa, to help its solutions providers in southern Africa improve time-to-revenue and accelerate growth opportunities. The agreement supports partners with pre- and post-sales support, technical support, as well as logistics services from 60 offices across six […]
A recent survey amongst business decision makers on the business impact of application performance revealed a major performance gap between the needs of business and information technology (IT)’s current ability to deliver. It is said that 98% of executives agree that optimal enterprise application performance is critical to achieving optimal business performance. And yet, 94% […]
Seagate Technology is to formally launch a long-term, unlimited capacity cloud-based data storage service in South Africa early this year. At the launch of Seagate Storage Cloud, it was stated that the service will be delivered in association with the company’s well-established and long-time local business partner, Sithabile Technology Services. It was noted that the service […]
Data has become the currency of the always-on world. But on its own, it is not enough. Companies need to make sense of the wealth of data they have. This is where the algorithm economy comes in, according to Veeam. Given the growth of big data, decision-makers are realising it is necessary to extract value […]
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, has received a prestigious DatacenterDynamics Leaders EMEA Award in the modular deployment category for the state-of-the-art customised prefabricated data centre installed at Sagrada Familia church, Barcelona, Spain. The Award was made at an evening ceremony held at London’s Lancaster Hotel and hosted by television […]
Six Telecoms, a leading provider of voice and data access services in Tanzania, has partnered with NewTelco South Africa, a joint venture between the Jasco Group and NewTelco GMBH, to deliver an international point of presence (PoP) through NewTelco’s co-location hub in London. This PoP is located in one of the major global interconnection […]
Talk of market disruption is generally characterised in terms of David toppling Goliath: agility and flight of foot trump sheer heft. While the analogy has some appeal it misses the point that these “disruptors” are probably winning because they are closer to what consumers today really want. Larger organisations, by contrast, have to contend […]
IT has traditionally worked out its storage requirements by looking at data growth levels and making a projection. It has generally paid for increases by replacing old arrays — in an asset management life cycle – and put new costs into specific projects, for example, paying for a storage cost in a new business process […]
