Cloud

The rise of Google Cloud

We all know how Google changed the world with search, but what efficiencies does its cloud platform bring?

Intelligent edge: The future of cloud computing?

With so much data being created, the ability to collate and process it at source provides numerous benefits.

Navinder Singh

Kirsten Doyle

How Nedbank is evolving into a digital bank

Cloud is a key part of modernisation, as all banks are finding out.

Matthew Burbidge

The future is multicloud

The idea that your cloud strategy can rely solely on one service provider is outdated. It’s not just thinking about the high-level infrastructure and platforms for the applications developers; what about your shadow IT estate? How can you manage the cloud sprawl?

Kirsten Doyle

Oracle sees cloud growth in its future

Oracle has been in the country for two decades, and is betting its new local cloud region will supercharge its growth.

Matthew Burbidge

Build it and they will come

Dimension Data’s new datacentre is taking shape to the north of Johannesburg, joining a number of others.

Matthew Burbidge

Cloudy, with a chance of malice

Cloud adoption has increased in the past couple of years, fuelled by work-from-home, but so too has growth in cybercrime. What to do about protecting everything the cloud touches?

Kirsten Doyle

The cloud paradox

Cloud offers businesses unprecedented choice, but there are complexities that need to be thought through.

Matthew Burbidge

Setting the data and cloud agenda

Government’s new data and cloud policy has been published in draft form. It’s not to everyone’s liking.

Adrian Hinchcliffe

CLOUD TO THE RESCUE

South Africa’s public sector is waking up to how cloud can help it meet its PoPIA obligations.

Brainstorm Staff Writer

BRINGING CLOUD VALUE TO THE SME SECTOR

In the world of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, even small and medium enterprise (SME) businesses understand that they need to carefully consider their options with regard to digital transformation.

Brainstorm Staff Writer

DON’T ORCHESTRATE YOUR CLOUD, OPTIMISE IT

If there was one bright spot during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was that the cloud finally coming into its own. According to Flexera, 94% of organisations are now using the cloud, with 91% using the public cloud.

Brainstorm Staff Writer

WHEN CLOUD PATTERNS BECOME ANTI-PATTERNS

Cloud patterns, although well-defined, can become problematic if they turn from serving the business outcomes, to becoming counterproductive, adding complexity, and technical debt.

Brainstorm Staff Writer