OneView becomes one of the first EMEA platforms recognised for secure, scalable FinOps.1Nebula, a pioneering 28-year-old South African SaaS and managed services company, has been awarded Microsoft’s newly launched ‘Solution Partner with Certified Software’ designation for Azure. Its flagship FinOps product, OneView Cloud Expense Management, has also achieved SOC2 certification, further...
Generative AI, also known as gen AI, has the potential to provide enhanced insights, particularly by using plain language to delve into the details. However, there are challenges that we must...
In our first post in this series, we introduced why generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is a potential game changer for telecom expense management software in an enterprise setting. We also...
Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) has set the world alight since the commercial launch of OpenAI’s Chat-GPT in late 2022. Since then, Gen AI has found a wide range of applications in fields...
Most organisations are now deep into their cloud journeys. But despite the benefits the cloud delivers in terms of scalability, flexibility and efficiency, the average IT department is struggling to...
Telecom services and products enable digital lifestyles for consumers and digital transformation for enterprises. Given that there is no digital economy without fixed line and mobile broadband, it’s...
Retailers are ramping up digital transformation to keep pace with the demanding, connected post-COVID consumer and improve operational efficiency in a time of rising inflation. As they accelerate...
Over the past decade, the cloud has played a central role in enterprise digital transformation strategies. As organisations adopted a mix of cutting edge software, platform and infrastructure as a...
Cutting edge as-a-service solutions from public cloud providers and software vendors have helped organisations to accelerate digital transformation over the past 10 years. Whereas the lines between...
Most enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies as they accelerate digital transformation. Forrester research from June 2022 shows 60% of surveyed decision-makers were already using...
OneView becomes one of the first EMEA platforms recognised for secure, scalable FinOps.1Nebula, a pioneering 28-year-old South African SaaS and managed services company, has been awarded Microsoft’s...
As organisations accelerate digital transformation, the complexity of their mobile environments inevitably grows. Hybrid working models, mobile business processes, bring your own device (BYOD)...
Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace is an online store offering cutting edge applications and services built on or designed to integrate with Azure. With more than 4 million monthly active Azure customers...
During this time of digital transformation, it is a priority for most organisations to bring ICT expenditure under tighter control. With the rise of the hybrid workforce, cloud migration, a shift to...
With technology change continuing to accelerate, cloud migration and digital transformation are key priorities for every business. Without making the right investments in technology modernisation,...
Telecom expense management (TEM) isn’t new, but the discipline has become more important than ever in an age of hybrid work, cloud computing and digital transformation. Cutting edge TEM processes and...
The eagerly awaited conclusion of Microsoft Inspire 2023 has arrived, and we are here to bring you the most exciting moments from the event. This highly anticipated annual gathering is a standout...
Telecom expense management (TEM) isn’t new, but the discipline has become more important than ever in an age of hybrid work, cloud computing and digital transformation. Cutting edge TEM processes and...
The plain old telephone service (POTS) is an endangered species in South Africa, with MyBroadband estimating that only around 12,000 ADSL lines were still in use as of late 2023. This marks a sharp...
A cutting edge telecom expense management (TEM) solution is a key enabler for digital transformation at a time your business is under pressure to innovate, reduce costs and support new ways of...
With every organisation facing the need to balance the need to innovate and accelerate digital transformation against pressurised budgets, telecom expense management (TEM) and FinOps disciplines...
IT departments are under pressure to accelerate digital transformation at a time that corporate budgets are under immense pressure. With vast amounts of technology spending required just to keep...
Microsoft is making a host of changes to the Microsoft Partner Network to simplify its partner program and make it smarter. Let’s take a look at the changes to the program, now called the Microsoft...
As a business picks up the pace of digital transformation and cloud migration, cutting edge data strategy is one of the topics that should be top of mind. The journey to the cloud is an opportunity...
Edge computing is on the radar of every cutting-edge company as it looks for smarter ways to use tech to innovate. IDC forecasts that worldwide spending on edge computing will reach $176 billion by...
DevOps transformation and digital transformation go hand in hand, with most organisations looking to accelerate software delivery cycles and improve software quality. According to one study, 83% of...
There’s little doubt that cloud architects are in demand right now, with companies seeking to innovate faster and accelerate digital transformation. But technical skills and the right certifications...
A well-planned and executed strategy for shifting workloads to the cloud can help an enterprise accelerate progress in its digital transformation goals and create a platform on which it can innovate....
With some 4 million monthly users, the Microsoft Azure Marketplace is an important market for independent software vendors (ISVs). It’s where many enterprises seek solutions that help simplify...
As enterprises accelerate their migration to the cloud, they will inevitably find themselves managing services and applications across multiple cloud service providers. Although a multi-cloud...
Most enterprises today operate multi-cloud environments, whether due to ad hoc decisions made by different business units over the years or whether sourcing services from multiple cloud providers is...
In this era of digital transformation, businesses have access to the data they need to make smarter business decisions, the cloud computing power to crunch massive sets of data, and the analytics...
Cloud computing, a new paradigm for acquiring and using computing resources, has already transformed our world in so many ways. During the pandemic, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable...
With companies under continued pressure to innovate, accelerate growth and simplify operations, enterprises are shifting workloads to the cloud faster than most of us would have imagined possible...
As we moved into the second half of 2022, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. There are some global headwinds—inflation is high and...
In this era of digital transformation, most enterprises are running at least some of their workloads in the cloud and planning to migrate most applications and services to the cloud in the years to...
As your company accelerates digital transformation, it will inevitably need to run a mixture of private cloud, public cloud, and on-premises applications and services to address its business needs....
Over the past two and a half years, the cloud has proven its value as a catalyst for business and digital transformation. Today, companies are leveraging the cloud to innovate, accelerating time to...
As they grapple with the urgent imperative of digital transformation, South African CIOs know that cloud computing and cutting-edge everything-as-a-service offerings have a key role to play in the...
The CIO’s role is evolving as enterprises accelerate cloud migration to meet their digital transformation goals. No longer is the CIO’s main job to help reduce infrastructure costs, ensure seamless...
No one knows for sure what the pandemic has in store for us in 2022, but it’s a safe bet that digital transformation and the move to hybrid work will accelerate this year. Recent research from the...
When it comes to cloud, adoption doesn’t always mean optimisation. Especially when you consider that over a quarter of global cloud spend is wasted, according to Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud ...
According to the 2020 Cloud in Africa report, released in September last year, cloud technology helped business across sub-Saharan Africa to better manage the disruptions caused by the coronavirus...
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed cloud computing to the front of decision-maker’s minds. This is according to a new study by World Wide Worx, in partnership with F5, Dell Technologies, Digicloud Africa...
Efficiency is defined as the ability to produce something with a minimum amount of effort. Depending on what you’re doing, efficiency is based on different metrics. In sport, for example, achieving...
During his recent State of the Nation Address (SONA), South African president Cyril Ramaphosa described the digital economy as a very important driver of future growth and an asset in government’s...
According to Gartner, worldwide public cloud revenue will grow to $266.4 billion in 2020, up 17% from $227.8 billion last year.
“For many industrial manufacturers, what was once a clear path to success is now fraught with uncertainty,” PwC’s Industrial Manufacturing Trends report for 2018 and 2019 reads. As more and more...
Manufacturers across the globe were expected to spend $4.2 billion on cloud computing platforms in 2017 and achieve year-over-year growth of 23% in 2018, according to IDC. And this upward trend...
Cloud computing is no longer just a buzzword or a trend; it’s an essential business tool. According to Mark Walker, associate VP for sub-Saharan Africa at IDC Middle East, Africa and Turkey, cloud...
According to Gartner, cost optimisation is a business-focused discipline that aims to drive cost reduction, while maximising business value. Cost optimisation includes everything from obtaining the...
Cloud Computing may have been around for a while but for many of us, it’s still a little confusing. With different models and then different ways of deploying Cloud, you’d be forgiven for mixing up...
When speaking about cloud technology, security often comes up as a concern. Especially as more and more businesses move their data and applications to the cloud. According to Jay Heiser, VP and...
For years, tech experts, economists and business leaders have engaged in a growing debate about how automation will affect the workplace. The “tech-pessimists” worry about how automation will...
PCMag defines cloud computing as: “a means of storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of using your computer’s hard drive”. For something to be considered cloud...
Businesses that were Cloud Computing trailblazers have probably been using this technology for quite some time. Familiar with all the use cases, advantages and disadvantages, they’ve leveraged the...
Nebula’s OneView product suite empowers companies to integrate and automate business unit functions of their choice from both telecommunications and IT on one platform.
Telecom services and products enable digital lifestyles for consumers and digital transformation for enterprises. Given that there is no digital economy without fixed line and mobile broadband, it’s...
Retailers are ramping up digital transformation to keep pace with the demanding, connected post-COVID consumer and improve operational efficiency in a time of rising inflation. As they accelerate...
With inflation and interest rates rising in 2022, many cutting edge software as a service (SaaS) companies are preparing for a potential downturn. In the event that the world economy slows down, they...
As companies accelerate their digital transformation journeys, many discover that the cloud, on its own, isn’t the right fit for every business case. There are still instances where it makes sense to...
Over the past decade, the cloud has played a central role in enterprise digital transformation strategies. As organisations adopted a mix of cutting edge software, platform and infrastructure as a...
Cutting edge as-a-service solutions from public cloud providers and software vendors have helped organisations to accelerate digital transformation over the past 10 years. Whereas the lines between...
Is your enterprise reaping the full business value from its cloud migration strategy? Getting the most from the cloud isn’t simply about trying to shave your monthly cloud bill, but also creating a...
When you run your business on-premises there are certain expenses. These include the cost of employing trained IT professionals, renting or buying space, investing in hardware and paying that...
Economic uncertainty, market instability and changes in buyer preferences are all having an impact on the professional services sector. But their requirements remain the same. These firms...
You want to expand your cloud infrastructure. After doing some research, you find a public cloud provider that offers all the features and functionality you need to host your custom application....
South African businesses are spending a lot of money on IT. In fact, when it comes to IT spend, SA was one of the fastest-growing countries globally, according to Gartner.
When you think cloud computing you probably don’t think about the movie business, do you? But if you ask MTI Film CEO, Larry Chernoff, cloud is proving to be an industry asset amid the coronavirus ...
Leadership can be exhilarating, but it can also drain your energy. As a leader, staying motivated and maintaining energy levels are essential—not just for...