US-based SQL database technology provider, NuoDB, has touched ground in SA through a channel partnership with Johannesburg-based consulting and analytics company, BITanium.
"We're hitting the gas pedal in terms of broadening the geographical reach of the company," says NuoDB CEO Barry Morris, adding partnering with BITanium gives NuoDB access to BITanium's relationships and knowledge of the South African landscape.
Morris believes NuoDB's technology will be of benefit to South African businesses because it can run databases on cheap, commodity hardware and networks, and requires little expertise to operate.
NuoDB technology can save South African businesses the cost of running data centres on generators during load-shedding by deploying cloud data centres, adds BITanium MD Chris O'Connell.
A universal shift towards the cloud means data centres are revolutionising, says Morris. Big economies in Europe and the US experience inertia during massive changes like this, as de facto standards take more time to change across larger economies, giving economies like SA the opportunity to "leapfrog" over them, as change can occur more rapidly across smaller economies, says Morris.
Morris, a serial entrepreneur who grew up in SA, believes South Africans "have got a natural entrepreneurial spirit to them", possibly from having to find ways around challenges to innovation such as lack of infrastructure. "Entrepreneurs are people who just don't buy the status quo," Morris elaborates.
However, South African entrepreneurs are greatly limited by the lack of maths and engineering skills in the workforce, says O'Connell.
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