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ICT infrastructure a barrier to data centre adoption in Africa

To help Africa realise the benefits of the data economy, more data centres in the region are urgently needed. However, building data centres starts with enabling access to the ICT infrastructure and ecosystems, and...

A new South African cloud market emerging

Thanks to the arrival of Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa, it is expected that more born-in-the-cloud organisations will start taking root here. And with smaller companies now finding it easier to migrate...

Datacentrix expert on what organisations should be looking for in an IaaS...

Mark Chadwick, Head of Cloud Services, Datacentrix, looks at what organisations should be looking for in an IaaS provider. The term ‘Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)’ has become practically synonymous...

Capitalising on the Software-Defined Data Centre

The Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) combines exceptional performance with unprecedented flexibility, enabling IT assets and IT organisations to operate and change at the speed of business. Accelerating business...

South Africa ‘is well on its way to becoming a cloud-first...

Globally, 85% of enterprises are operating in a multi-cloud environment with most of the balance planning on embracing this methodology by 2021. Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager, Africa, at Veeam, says that, in...

Decision Inc experts on working towards a better data management

Big data is seeing organisations becoming more mindful of aligning their data management practices with newer paradigms such as data lakes, elastic and cluster computing, and real-time data. Stefan Kruger and Peter...

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