Infinidat recognises Silicon Sky

Every company is now a ‘data’ business, as it really boils down to using its insights to improve decision-making and drive business value, says Datacentrix's Shakeel Jhazbhay .

The South African Social Security Agency looks to tap into the databases of other government departments as it intensifies its fraud prevention and zero tolerance measures.

The engineering firm relocated its data centre, including storage area network, storage and server infrastructure, following the organisation’s move of its head office to Newlands, Pretoria.

Metallic VM & Kubernetes Backup provides simple and scalable SaaS data protection for containers and is part of Metallic’s hybrid cloud data protection portfolio, which doubles Commvault’s portfolio of unique BaaS solutions.

The IT industry is seeing a great deal of focus on the role of the data engineer, where understanding cloud and big data engineering technologies is critical.

When deciding which cloud services to offer, a good place to start is business challenge mapping, says Jason Sharp, director for cloud and hosting at First Distribution.

The PRIMERGY RX4770 M6 achieved top results for the fastest data load, the highest number of query executions per hour, and the shortest runtime for complex query phases.

Companies are aggressively increasing investments in data centre infrastructure in anticipation of increased demand in cloud and hosted services, say analysts.

The storage infrastructure platform addresses the challenges of the data era.

VMware's Dave Funnell will present a keynote entitled ‘The successful cloud’ during a webinar on 10 November.

Native cloud apps are the way to go, says Gavin Ramsay, AWS brand manager at First Distribution.

The company starts the construction of a new hyperscale data centre, with 38MW of critical power load, in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.