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Does your company have an integration strategy?

The need to integrate things, people, teams, resources, business units, offices and everything in-between presents itself as a corporate imperative all the time - but integration platform specialist MuleSoft is making a case for a...

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CIOs take a business approach to technical debt

Technical debt is the responsibility of the entire organisation; CIOs and CTOs reveal how to build the business case

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Calling time on enterprise scale real-time services

The enterprise use of real-time applications and data services is growing in importance, but getting it right requires a lot of software engineering time and money – can C-suite executives justify the expense of trying to build home...

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Enterprise infrastructure VPN: Which solution is best?

Peerspot users review the highest reviewed solutions in the enterprise infrastructure VPN market.

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Tracking the revolution: Africa’s 4IR adoption

The pandemic has accelerated the growth of Africa’s digital sector but it’s a long way from the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Steering cloud on manual is dangerous driving

Powering and controlling the internal mechanics of modern cloud networks with manual controls that are potentially subject to a higher degree of human error is a dicey proposition, especially when automatic auto-pilot controls are...

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Overcoming Infrastructure as Code obstacles: It's time for Infrastructure from Code

Infrastructure from Code is taking on the mantle from Infrastructure as Code, overcoming many of the obstacles of delivering on a modern cloud environment.

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Which solution is best?

IT Central Station users review the highest reviewed solutions in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market.

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What will happen around the world of data in 2022?

Data has become critical to businesses, but how will they manage this critical asset in the future? And how will infrastructure, policy and business costs all change in response?

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): Which solution is best?

IT Central Station users review the highest reviewed solutions in the hyperconverged infrastructure market.

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Will China’s single stack IPv6 plans give it an unassailable tech lead?

China’s authorities are pushing to speed up nationwide IPv6 rollout and have a single-stack network running by 2023. At the moment, it is the only country advocating for a single-stack IPv6 network. Could this be a much-needed...

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Cloud-native is from Mars, legacy monitoring tools are from Venus

As the technology infrastructure world moves to embrace cloud-native with wider open arms, the legacy monitoring tools traditionally applied to this new IT substrate do not necessarily always enjoy an easy fit.

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Farmula: Creating B2B digital infrastructure to connect farmers to buyers in Africa

How a Nigerian agri-tech startup is creating a B2B digital infrastructure that allows farmers and customers to directly interact, driving up margins on both ends.

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Gartner: Reducing IT costs... without crippling competitiveness

In an uncertain and pressurised economic environment, organisations often face the challenge of realising immediate IT cost savings. When faced with the challenge, CIOs need to determine how to approach cost cutting in the least...

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News roundup: Dell-VMware spin-off, SAP unveils financial services unit, Alibaba faces record fine, semiconductor industry growth, and more

A round-up of this week's technology news, including Dell's spin-off of VMware, SAP's new financial services unit, a record fine faced by Alibaba, healthy growth in the semiconductor industry, and more.

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Infrastructure's journey to invisibility

Good technology is technology that users don't even notice - and so, in a sense, good technology is invisible. As cloud computing and the compartmentalised world of containers now flourishes, how should we track our IT...

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