Why Hosted Cloud Platforms Are Still Relevant By Japie Botha, Operations Executive, iOCO Despite the global shift to cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, businesses the world over are starting to realise that the cloud can hold immense complexities – and comes at a significant cost for certain types […]
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Transformation in 2024: The Right Approach to Cloud Adoption
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses in South Africa face challenges in harnessing the true power of technology to meet client demands. As innovation continues to press forward, it is essential that businesses keep pace with technological advances. When it comes to moving to the cloud, for example, multicloud seems to be the strategy […]
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The road to Zero Trust not necessarily paved with gold
As discussed in my first article in this series, whilst Zero Trust must be the goal, there are a few potholes to navigate on the journey. Let me expand slightly more on these caveats, but also expose the greatest ally of Zero Trust. Paul Meyer. Peer to peer (P2P) technologies – prevalent in the […]
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CA Southern Africa delivers Symantec Enterprise Cloud to SA’s largest corporations
Symantec Enterprise Cloud, a Broadcom cyber security solution, brings data-centric hybrid security for the largest and most complex organisations in the world. It enables enterprises to meet legal, regulatory and corporate data compliance requirements. Symantec Enterprise Cloud also empowers today’s modern workforce to securely access sensitive company assets from anywhere. “It unifies intelligence across control points, enabling […]
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Take the pain out of moving data to the cloud
The intricacies of cloud data migration can be managed, to navigate this transformative endeavour with confidence It is said that three of the most stressful things in life are death, divorce and moving. While moving to a new house can indeed be a daunting prospect, similar sentiments hold true when considering the migration of data […]
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Powering resilience
In 2022, South Africans experienced 205 days of load-shedding,(1) with a CSIR report stating that businesses and individuals had no electricity for 43% of the hours in the year.(2) January 2023 saw predictions of the same amount of load-shedding this year, but the reality has been far worse. 21 March marked the first full-day suspension […]
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Cloud Adoption in Manufacturing: How to Ensure Successful Cloud Projects
As the desire to move to the cloud continues to rise as a real priority for manufacturers, the last three years have driven a push towards adoption. After years of living off a diet of heavily modified, generic ERP systems and applications, manufacturers have realised that there are other options. Moving to a world with […]
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Why Cloud Is Not Always Enough
It’s time to demystify the different types of cloud currently available. Here’s why the future favours a multi-tenant model. While it’s generally accepted that cloud is the future, clouds still come in many forms, and understanding the respective merits of each can be, well, cloudy, to say the least. Industry analysts sometimes squabble over the […]
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CA Southern Africa delivering Symantec Enterprise Cloud innovations to SA
CA Southern Africa, a representative of Broadcom Software and driving Symantec Enterprise Cloud (SEC) uptake in SA’s enterprise market, reveals Broadcom’s acquisition of Symantec in 2019 reinforced a 50-year history of Symantec innovation, focusing on areas most important to its global client base, including: Compliance; Integration; Work-from-anywhere; and Hybrid and multicloud environments. CA Southern Africa reveals what’s […]
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Solutions Approach, Not Deadlines, Driving Sound Migration
In an ever evolving, fast paced, and constantly innovating world, enterprise software solutions must deliver on one essential element. They must always offer a solution to a customer problem or meet a direct need. To achieve this, embracing the cloud is a must. In many environments, however, customers are still uncertain about cloud solutions – […]
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