Storage
Nutanix Accelerates Kubernetes Adoption in the Enterprise
Thomas Cornely, SVP, Product Management, Nutanix Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new features in its Cloud Platform to accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes running both at scale and cost-effectively. The company announced broad support for leading Kubernetes container platforms, built-in infrastructure as code capabilities, and enhanced data services for modern applications. These new features allow DevOps teams to accelerate application delivery with the performance, governance, and flexibility of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, while allowing customers to maintain control of their IT operating costs. “Kubernetes deployments are inherently dynamic and challenging to manage at scale,” said Thomas Cornely, SVP, Product Management, Nutanix. “Running Kubernetes ...
The cloud must prioritise the edge
By George Senzere, solutions architect, Secure Power at Schneider Electric A perfect storm is brewing: the number of IoT devices is doubling every five years, according to analyst firm Gartner, and cloud adoption is exploding. The sheer amount of data is mind boggling which is why organisations are now closer to edge computing. Similarly, to meet data demand, hyperscale cloud providers are developing solutions to distribute their cloud capabilities closer to the edge. And it makes sense; edge computing allows cloud providers to continuously improve the customer experience, safety and security whilst becoming more sustainable. Whilst shrinking in size, it remains vitally important that physical infrastructure such as power, cooling and networking remain resilient and allow emplo...
Minimise your data centre operational costs by choosing the right transceivers
According to SeaCom, which provides telecommunications to businesses across the African continent from undersea cables to an extensive fibre grid, South Africa is experiencing a data centre boom, and this growth in data centres is, in turn, good for the economy. This is because local data facilities enhance internet speeds and processing power for South African businesses, which logically has a positive effect on competitiveness. However, data centres are costly, so choosing the best transceivers available is crucial for the network, while also assisting with an organisation’s budget. Brent Wood, the Vendor Alliance Manager for South Africa at Exclusive Networks Africa, explains: “Simply put, data centres provide the compute power to run applications, the storage capabilities to process da...
Why Storage Lies at the Heart of Effective XaaS Delivery
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What are the Top Storage Trends for 2022?
With 2021 behind us, we look at the storage market to see an exciting 2022 ahead of us. Cyber resilience, AI, supercharged application and workload performance and availability, and reduction of OPEX and CAPEX in today’s world of hybrid cloud and containers – all of these come together to frame up the next 12 months. Understanding these enterprise storage trends will give you an advantage and help you formulate your strategic IT plan going forward. Read what is coming your way in 2022. Trend #1: THE critical nature of data and cyber resilience from the storage estate within the corporate/company cybersecurity strategy The threat of cyber-attacks has reached such a feverish pitch that 66% of Fortune 500 CEOs named it their #1 business threat in the Fortune 500 CEO survey in mid-2021. Simila...
Nigeria’s Andela Achieves $1.5-Billion Valuation in Latest Series E Round
Image sourced from TechCabal. Andela, a global engineering talent outsourcing company launched in Nigeria in 2014 has secured a $200-million investment during a Series E funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the venture capital arm of Japanese mega-corp SoftBank. This latest funding round brings Andela’s total valuation to $1.5-billion, officially making it Africa’s fifth unicorn startup. According to TechCabal, Andela began as an African-focused software developer training and outsourcing company. The firm soon grew to become a top source for talented, well-rounded developers in Africa thanks to the company’s developer training methodology and curriculum. The company received a comfortable $24-million injection from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in 2016. Last year, Andela went complet...
AI & Data Storage: Tintri & DDN Together Enable this Symbiotic Relationship
Image by Mohamed Hassan: Pixabay. In the field of enterprise IT, artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword that we’ve seen used time and again over the past few years, with the promise of making every part of a business better. What does this mean specifically for data storage? This is the question posed in a recent Tintri blog, which clarifies that AI can be considered as any system that can sufficiently process data to augment, mimic or, in some cases, replace human cognitive functions. As outlined by Tintri co-authors Erwin Daria, Ram Narayanan and Kurt Kuckei, AIs perform within a ‘feedback loop’ that can be categorised by the following key stages: Data analysis: where data is fed into the AI. Inference: where the AI infers a condition from that data. Prescription/action: in most case...
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...
Nigerian FinTech Kuda Bank Closes $55-Million Series B Funding Round
Image sourced from Tech Crunch. Kuda Bank, a Nigerian fintech startup has raised $55-million in a Series B funding round at a valuation of $500-million. Previously, the company announced it had raised $25-million during a round of Series A funding a little over four months ago. Co-leading this latest round of funding were existing investors Target Global and Valar Ventures – a firm co-founded and backed by PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel. Joining them were SBI Investment and other previous participants. According to Kuda’s co-founder and CEO, Babs Ogundeyi, the startup aims to build a new take on banking services for “every African on the planet” – in service of these lofty goals, the startup is looking to use the funds raised during this latest round to build on its platform for Nigeria, a...
Addressing Data Storage Challenges in Healthcare Can Empower its Digital Transformation
Sourced from Getty Images. The healthcare industry has been one of the greatest beneficiaries of digital transformation in the last 12 months. Essential remote care services, critical real-time hyper-localised data in tracking pandemic trends, and the rapid rollout of a worldwide vaccine have been facilitated by digitalization. This growing reliance on digital operations brings with it vast amounts of data – according to IDC in May 2020, more than 59 zettabytes (ZB) of data would be created, captured, copied, and consumed in the world last year alone. This sudden and exponential increased digital demand has meant that the essential data infrastructure that healthcare relies on has come under enormous pressure and must handle critical data and workloads. At the same time, improvements in te...
Why You Should Use a RAID to Securely Store Video Surveillance Data
Image sourced from SourceSecurity.com A RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive – or Independent – Disks) is a specialized hardware configuration that offers a tremendous amount of versatility in its usage. Generally used for data storage and, more specifically, to achieve data redundancy, it’s useful in applications that require a large amount of data – such as surveillance. While full-scale surveillance systems were once reserved for large businesses and enterprises, their affordability, as well as the affordability of modern hard drives, now makes them a viable option for home use, too. But a digital home surveillance system requires a lot of data storage space as well as routine management and maintenance of that data – and that’s exactly where RAID comes in. RAID Configurations for Surve...
NCS: Nigerian government to inaugurates Funtua inland dry port November
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, will in November inaugurate the ongoing Funtua Inland Dry Port project in Sokoto State. Also the French government has indicated its interest in collaborating with its Nigerian counterpart and therefore hinted that it will assist the government in form of financial assistance to the sector. The Executive Secretary/CEO Nigerian Shipper’s Council (NSC), Mr. Hassan Bello, made this known Thursday in Abuja during a meeting between the Council, Concessionaires for the Inland Dry Ports and the French Embassy. NSC ES, while highlighting the successes so far recorded by the Council stated that the federal government thought it necessary to bring shipping closer to the people by establishing ports in the hinterland. Hassan told the audien...
