Ever-growing, unpredictable storage requirements – now with the added complication of AI – leave businesses trying to get the balance right.
Under the agreement, CSSi SA has structured an alliance to deploy racks and provide data sovereignty for South African customers, with up to three tiers of redundancy between three data centre footprints.
Many South African ISPs, enterprises and digital platforms are heavily reliant on a single IXP for their traffic flows, says Adil El Youssefi, CEO at Africa Data Centres.
In a webinar hosted by Hitachi Vantara and ITWeb, storage experts outlined how the proliferation of data and complexity of IT environments made data storage and management increasingly challenging.
The data storage platform will allow for rapid scale while lowering power consumption and reducing the physical footprint of hyperscale data centres.
The partnership agreement is inclusive of distribution rights in the sub-Saharan Africa region.
In southern Africa, the annual growth rate (CAGR 2024-2029) of enterprise data storage volume is expected to reach 18.65%, says Chen Wei, director of Huawei Southern Africa Enterprise ICT Marketing & Solution Sales.
Learn how to optimise data storage in your business at a webinar hosted by Cloud Essentials, taking place on 19 November.
Cooling systems are a critical component of data centre operations, accounting for a significant portion of energy consumption, says Matone Ditlhake, CEO of Corridor Africa.
Data doesn’t like to move, but in the cloud, it’s moved multiple times, across several technologies, using multiple services and languages.
Hitachi Vantara is committed to understanding and addressing the evolving needs of businesses when it comes to data storage.
First Distribution is introducing the EBG and HUAWEI SME portfolios in the South African market.
Using your data heritage to win
An executive virtual roundtable was held on 27 October. In partnership with Software AG and ITWeb, the session examined data storage and the ways in which mainframe is still relevant to businesses today.
Future-proof storage
Pinnacle and Huawei, in collaboration with ITWeb, participated in a webinar on 13 October. The session showcased how all-flash storage, using solid-state drives, can help businesses to transform digitally and optimise the value of data.