Oracle has announced the launch of its new Oracle Johannesburg cloud region, the company’s 37th worldwide and its first on the continent, signalling growing confidence in the future growth of cloud services in Africa, and its long-term faith in Gauteng as the premier regional hub. Demand for enterprise cloud services has been growing rapidly on…
Are you asking your organization the right questions about digital transformation efforts? Center your efforts with this guide. The need to prepare for disruption has become a cliché in the business world. As the last two years have proven, it is becoming even more of an imperative to prepare your organization for possible turbulence and…
What do you think keeps CIOs up at night these days? CIOs are telling me that they function under plenty of constraints—everyone is being asked to do more with less. They must innovate under constraints. Successful CIOs recognize that this is not a bad thing. In fact, a constrained environment is often a source of…
Compare today’s IT landscape to that of a decade ago, and you can see that traditional enterprise IT has been turned inside out. Workers are at home or in other remote locations. Once concentrated in internally managed data centers, applications and data are now distributed across multiple public and private clouds. In this article, we…
Before the pandemic, organizations took a castle-and-moat approach to cybersecurity. They used corporate firewalls to protect the network, ensuring on-premises devices, systems and data were secure. But that approach no longer works. Now enterprise IT teams are adapting to a new IT landscape with a workforce mostly or entirely remote indefinitely. More applications and storage…
Over the years, businesses of all sizes and in all sectors have migrated to the cloud with a vision to reduce infrastructure management and focus on core business activities. With time, all system processes including development, testing, and integration have a ready-to-use module in the cloud. Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) standardizes and fastens…
Considering a knowledge-sharing solution? If so, you have plenty of options to choose from, each with their own unique feature sets. How can you narrow down your choices and find the best solution for your company’s needs? Evaluate your options Start by researching the best-in-class solutions, with your company’s unique use case in mind. For…
By Scott McMaster The essence of meaningful enterprise communications–whether needing to access sensitive data or to send confidential messages–is now going through one of its biggest shifts in decades. Much of this is because of the hybrid workplace, which means different things to different people. It can mean the massive increase in remote sites back…
As companies scramble to adapt to a tight IT job market, they’re doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent. For some that means getting a head start in filling this year’s most in-demand roles, which range from data-focused to security-related positions, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2022 IT salary report. The survey also reveals…
Microsoft’s plan to acquire games developer Activision Blizzard, announced Jan. 18, isn’t just about gaming; it has consequences for CIOs, too. The $68.7 billion value the deal puts on Activision Blizzard is only about 3% of Microsoft’s market capitalization, and the two companies have sales and net incomes in similar proportion, so it’s not going…