by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Sustainability
The traditional approach to data management has always been a scale up approach – when you run out of capacity you buy more, writes Hemant Harie, MD at Gabsten Technologies. The trouble is that data is growing exponentially. In fact, according to Statista, data centre...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 24, 2019 | Sustainability
Half the world is now connected to the internet. At the end of 2018, some 3.9 billion people were using the internet to access information and communication technologies, according to the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union, writes Phil Motteram,...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 3, 2019 | Security and Legal
The establishment of local data centres by large global cloud providers has opened up possibilities to many South African businesses. However, moving into the cloud can create some complexities, specifically around software licensing. As you move into the cloud, the...
by Dianne Bayley | May 31, 2016 | ITSM and Application Development
The convergence of IT and energy is opening up a wealth of new opportunities. This is according to Maria de Lurdes Carvalho, vice-president for Data Centre Solutions, EMEA region, Schneider Electric – a specialist in energy management and automation. De Lurdes...
