Enterprise IT
Arthur Goldstuck to Speak at IT News Africa’s Free E-Waste & IT Sustainability Webinar
Register now: https://itnewsafrica.com/events/event/optimise-and-embrace-the-circular-economy/ According to the UN Global E-Waste Monitor, global e-waste will reach 74 metric tonnes by 2030, an increase from the 50-million tonnes of e-waste we have to deal with today. Time is officially running out as the UN’s 2030 deadline for Sustainable Development rapidly approaches and in just 9 years there will no longer be a tolerance for e-waste in the value chain. Sustainability in the IT industry is simply no longer a buzzword, but a new way of life that organisations need to adopt in order to curb the harmful effects of climate change, and the world’s growing e-waste problem that continues to be fuelled by higher electric and electronic consumption rates, as well as shorter hardware lifecycles a...
Embracing the Philosophy of ‘More is More’ with Tintri
Image sourced from Networks Unlimited. The saying ‘Less is more’ was first popularised by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and today minimalism is a movement that extends to many aspects of life, including architecture, lifestyle, home décor, and fashion. But Tintri would argue that, in the arena of IT, sometimes you need to embrace a philosophy of ‘More is more’. So says Michael Donaldson, Tintri Product Manager at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited, who explains, “Tintri, a provider of intelligent infrastructure for virtualised and non-virtualised enterprise IT, brings better insights into systems, as well as improved understandings of workload activity: how your organisation and its users are behaving as regards interaction with data. “Intelligent infrastructure means ...
How to Monitor the Productivity of Your Remote Teams
Sourced from Getty Images. After the effects of the global pandemic, remote work has become a reality for millions of employees. Not only have a large number of companies quickly shifted to the remote work model but many of those companies have decided to keep this structure keep going. To highlight that, a study conducted by the Owl Lab has found that at least 52% of employees are working remotely at least once each week. Despite the numerous benefits of remote work, it also has unique sets of challenges. One of the greatest challenges that businesses have found is that it is difficult to track how your teams are performing and whether they are actually working productively or not. So, How Do Employers Measure Productivity in Remote Teams? While employees were working in...
5 Fresh Data Intelligence Trends that Businesses Ought to Know
Data has undoubtedly permeated every aspect of our modern life, from what we buy to the news we consume to fundamental truths we believe; data has become the bedrock of the modern decision-making process. The data analytics landscape has evolved drastically over the past five years, with Big Data and IoT pushing the limits of what’s possible in data intelligence. But there’s more. The 4th industrial revolution is upon us, a time where people will have more power than ever before to create change. Large volumes of data are moving faster than ever before and the true value lies in being able to look at gigabytes of data and determine trends, at a glance. Using the right tools, you can pull real-time data from sources, to ingest, store, visualise, analyse and predict trends, an all-in-one int...
The New DDoS ‘Normal’ is Not Normal in Any Way
Image sourced from Shutterstock. Threat actors will never turn down an opportunity for innovation, and the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an enormous such opportunity. We are seeing this quite clearly in the numbers coming through – and the new ‘normal’ around distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is not normal at all. So says Carole Hildebrand, Senior Strategic Marketing Writer at NETSCOUT, a leading global provider of service assurance, security and business analytics. Writing in a recent blog, she explains, “After an astonishingly active first quarter of DDoS attack activity, things calmed down a bit for the second quarter of 2021. Unfortunately, ‘calmed down’ is a relative term.” NETSCOUT decided to compare the numbers of DDoS attacks during the COVID-19 era of 2020 and 2021 thu...
Working to Build a Better Connected, More Intelligent Ecosystem in SA
Image sourced from Notebook Check. Clear out your calendar the “Huawei Connect 2021 Virtual Event” takes place on Thursday, 23rd September. One of the many effects of living through a global pandemic is that everything had to go virtual from how we learn to how we earn. That’s why at this year’s Huawei Connect event, we Dive into Digital. While the world is slowly starting to go back to normal, many things are still virtual – including this event. The first keynote of the event is presented by Huawei South Africa CEO, Mr. Spawn Fan, discussing the Road to Digital Transformation in South Africa. Just last year, Mr. Fan attended the launch of Huawei’s free 5G training courses at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU). The program was key in Huawei’s efforts to facilitating digital transformation...
+OneX Partners Teraco to Streamline Journeys into the Hybrid Cloud
Sourced from InfoWorld. New-age solutions and systems integrator, +OneX, has partnered with Teraco Data Environments to provide its enterprise customers with access to secure, resilient infrastructure at the heart of Africa’s largest, vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services provider. +OneX will leverage Teraco’s physical infrastructure and interconnection services to support its customers’ journeys to hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments with access to the richest cloud ecosystem on the continent. The partnership builds on and extends an existing relationship between Triple H Cloud Services, a managed private cloud provider that +OneX acquired earlier this year and integrated into its cloud business. +OneX co-locates its private cloud and data services in Teraco’s carri...
Are Customers Still Connected to Your Business in this Digital World?
Image sourced from ITA Group. The way we communicate socially has changed, thanks to social media and mobile technology. For many, this has also translated to changes in the way we communicate professionally. Digital has removed the typical boundaries associated with geography and time zones, and people expect to be able to use new communication channels not only with their friends but with the businesses they interact with too. Businesses need to embrace these new digital channels, including instant messaging platforms like WhatsApp, so that they can continue to be connected to their customers in a digital world. Digital Transformation Drives Connectedness The increasing usage of and reliance on digital technologies brings a variety of changes in both business and society. As enterprises ...
iOCO Enables Local Legacy Transitions with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Brett van Rensburg, Sales Director for iOCO’s Compute Division. Fortinet’s Secure Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) solution has shone recently as enterprises have had to shift from legacy infrastructure to increase their security and flexibility for remote working. This is according to iOCO-Network Solutions (iOCO-NS), the Compute division of iOCO, the ICT services business of the JSE-listed EOH Group. The iOCO-NS team includes Taya Howell, Head of Sales; Marc du Plessis, Head of Product; Lynton Clamp, CTO; Peter Lamsley, PMO Manager; and Magan Govender, Strategic Sales. Brett van Rensburg, Sales Director, iOCO Compute, adds, “The need to shift from legacy infrastructure, as part of an organisation’s digital transformation strategy, has experienced an acceleration due t...
Huawei Release Industry’s First Data Centre Switch Built for AI: CloudEngine 16800
At the Huawei network product launch event for Spring 2019 titled “A CloudEngine Built for the AI Era,” Huawei revealed the industry’s first data center switch built for Artificial Intelligence (AI) era –– CloudEngine 16800. Huawei identifies three features of data center switches in the AI era: embedded AI chip, 48-port400GE line card per slot, and the potential to grow to a self-driving network, and merges AI technologies into data centre switches in a novel way. Customers will benefit from the widespread usage of AI, which will help them speed intelligent transformation. AI use would rise from 16% in 2015 to 86% by 2025, according to Huawei’s Global IndustryVision (GIV) 2025. The potential to use artificial intelligence to restructure business models, make choices, and improve customer ...
Introducing the DPU from NVIDIA – Is It Time to Embrace Your FOMO?
Is it still true that death and taxes are the only two certainties in life? What about the rise and rise of new acronyms in the IT world? From ADSL to ZIP files, meandering through CAPTCHA, HTML, SASE, SD-WAN and URL, to name just a few, you might be forgiven for suffering eventually from FOMO or else even planning to go AWOL. But please don’t hit the MIA button until we’ve had a chance to chat about DPUs and their relatively recent arrival in the CPU and GPU family. Belinda Duke, Product Manager: NVIDIA Networking at Networks Unlimited, explains, “Certainly it’s true that the information technology field uses a lot of acronyms, but joking aside, there is another acronym in town – we think it’s very exciting to start working with the DPU, or ‘data processing unit’, which, according to NVID...
Machine Learning to Hybrid Cloud: 6 Key Trends Shaping Data Management
Image sourced from Capacity Media. Digital transformation and the increase in remote working means that businesses are faced with unparalleled levels of data being generated daily. Businesses not only have to manage that data, but they also have to address the fact that much of the data created by enterprise systems is ultimately valueless. In fact, it’s estimated that 90% of data is never accessed again 90 days after it is stored. Not only does this unnecessary data fill already-saturated storage systems, but it also becomes a liability requiring ongoing management. The increased pace of the generation of new business information means that data management has become a core priority for IT and non-technical executives alike, and the data management decisions that companies make can have s...
