ITWeb TV: Where will SA's next jobs come from? | Episode #136
Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati says the nation's catalyst for growth and employment lies in building SMMEs, as well as ensuring people are upskilled at scale for the transition into the world of AI. #Microsoft #AI #Cloud
ITWeb TV: Data centre neutrality key to Africa’s digital growth | Episode 118
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Samuel Mungadze, ITWeb Africa editor, speaks to Prenesh Padayachee, group chief digital infrastructure officer at Seacom, about Africa’s hyperscale economy and connectivity.
The top news headlines for 17 - 22 January 2022
A summary of the top business technology stories shared by ITWeb between 17 - 22 January 2022. Visit www.itweb.co.za for more news. #Microsoft #Oracle #Blockchain
Cloud adoption has increased significantly as it provides considerable value over traditional datacentres, achieving greater scalability, cost efficiency, and improved performance.
Company executives have a lot of big decisions to make when it comes to their datacentres. There is compelling argument to do away with it all together and transfer all the data into some outsourced facility. But there are also reasons to keep the datacentre on-premise. This roundtable dives into the reasons for and against these moves.
Greening up a datacentre makes sense, but there are cost implications.
With the advent of Microsoft's local data centres, latency is set to fall dramatically for Azure users.
Microsoft plans to deliver cloud services from two new South African datacentres.
The new Solaris 10 operating system aims to enable users to lower data warehousing costs by taking advantage of Oracle`s grid technology.