As with the majority of business software, HR and payroll solutions are increasingly available through the cloud as a pay-as-you-use model and are today, considered as mainstream as any other business application. However, a fundamental issue for any user looking to move their HR and payroll systems to the cloud is the common, yet incorrect…
When it comes to scaling a cloud service (and more specifically) a collaboration cloud service – what must-haves comes to mind? For me, it’s a vendor and service that has experience with millions of users, millions of calls and meetings, billions of messages, 99.999% reliability, and a whole lot of geek talk. These are crucial…
Converged ICT Services Provider Internet Solutions has signed a partnership with IT infrastructure company, icolo.io, to boost its data centre and cloud services offering to their clients. The partnership will see Internet Solutions provide colocation and cloud services within iColo’s Nairobi and Mombasa data centres in addition to its existing Nairobi Chancery facility. iColo.io designs builds…
Business leaders now have a choice whether they want to continue using their trusted firewall or move to a next-generation firewall delivered by appliances or as cloud services to protect the outer perimeter security in branch offices. Troye technical director Kurt Goodall says Citrix offers various choices, from the long-established multi-site to the advanced multi-layered…
Telkom is shutting down its ADSL copper network and is ultimately forcing its business customers to move to the cloud. This is part of Telkom’s strategy to migrate customers to a more stable network and similarly-priced products. Local cloud telecom provider Euphoria Telecom is elated by this announcement but warns customers to take action before…
Managed IT services provider Troye has announced new backup solutions for Microsoft Cloud Platforms. These new Veeam solutions provide Microsoft users with additional data protection, scalability, and enhanced control of their cloud-based data. Veeam, the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, recently unveiled its NEW version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office…
Gemalto and Eseye have launched the world’s first IoT ‘device-to-cloud’ solution to simplify the process of onboarding an IoT device into AWS IoT Core securely To realise the benefits of IoT, organisations need to navigate an enormously complex ecosystem and a fragmented value chain. With many development hurdles to cross, typically it can take an…
Cloud migration is typically driven by business demand, cost-savings and IT efficiency. However, to realise the full benefit of cloud migration, business leaders must understand the real business benefits for moving an application to the cloud. One Channel CEO Bernard Ford says companies that have already migrated the majority of their business systems to the…
While cloud technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to innovate as if they were potentially start-ups, the time and approach some are taking to make this decision could ultimately cost them. This is according to Guy Zibi, principal analyst, Xalam Analytics, who was a keynote speaker at Hype, vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, Routed’s recent event…
Many people often confuse the similarities and differences surrounding both web hosting and cloud computing. While many believe that cloud and hosted services are the same, this is not the case. Yes, they are both hosted off-premise and can be accessed remotely through an internet connection, but that is where it begins and ends. The…
