The chip technology will help prepare the US payment infrastructure for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments.
Puleng Technologies will deliver Ping's cloud identity management solutions in SA.
The cloud model increases automation and agility while reducing operational IT costs, say EMC experts.
There has been a strong movement towards using flash for storing all of the organisation's primary data.
The cloud computing service can support around 100 million users, according to Polaris.
With virtual servers, if a disaster takes place, a company's critical systems can be retrieved in tact, says an expert.
The new offering accommodates business change through its flexible and adaptive architecture, a Microsoft partner says.
The company claims it can now provide large-scale data centre solutions to the mid-size market.
Most of enterprises polled for the inaugural quarterly V-index say they are using virtualisation to some degree.
The software giant aims to allow large volumes of data to be presented visually for quicker decisions based on real-time information.
The move comes following a debacle which saw staff overpaid, underpaid or not paid at all.
Security is the major concern and barrier for companies which are yet to adopt cloud.
Proliferation of mobile devices has given rise to new media-rich and bandwidth-hungry apps, say industry players.
