June 2020

Local VMware cloud partner, Routed, appointed as Africa’s first global DRaaS provider

Local vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, Routed, has been listed as one of ten global providers of  VMware’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). As the only South African company to feature on this list, Routed has further established itself as one of the leading VMware cloud service providers. In November 2019, Routed was also the first company within Africa to become a VMware Cloud...

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Digital transformation needs DRaaS to succeed

While the industry is dominated by digital transformation initiatives, Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed, says that considering a cloud-first strategy is only one of two current imperatives: “Disaster Recovery (DR) planning needs to be a significant part of any IT transformation plan. Without these, business transformation will be impacted.”   Thankfully, Cruise says that the evolution of Software as a Service (SaaS) in the cloud has resulted...

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