Data Centre Solutions

Data centre investment and Covid-19 - catalysts for accelerated cloud adoption in Africa

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Console Connect has launched the second edition of its Africa Interconnection Report, researched by analyst firm Balancing Act, to understand the drivers and barriers to cloud adoption in the region.

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virtualDCS appoints new channel account executive

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IT backup, recovery and data management expert, Jeniya Klimova, who has spent the past five years working at global software company, Veeam, has joined the team at cloud computing and disaster recovery specialists, virtualDCS, as a channel account executive.

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Old Mutual selects Pluralsight

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Old Mutual, a premium pan-African financial services group headquartered in South Africa, has selected A Cloud Guru, a Pluralsight company, to support its cloud-computing skills development program. With A Cloud Guru, Old Mutual has accelerated its efforts to be fully migrated to the cloud, ensuring the company has the underlying technology needed to provide a superior customer experience for advisors and customers.

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Taxi fares well in the cloud

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In the highly competitive world of the private hire business, innovative IT support services can make a significant difference. Cloud infrastructure and data specialist PeaSoup has partnered with Virtual Rank, a cloud platform, to deliver the secure infrastructure that is powering the spectacular expansion of one taxi firm - which has seen turnover grow six-fold.

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SaaS pricing inflation is growing 4x faster than market inflation

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The rapid increase in SaaS prices has meant that customers are spending 53% more on licensing than they were five years prior.

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Redis extends strategic collaboration agreement with AWS

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Redis to collaborate with AWS on go-to-market activities for Redis Enterprise Cloud on AWS, which is designed to accelerate cloud migration and application development.