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    12 Jan

    How the biggest international cloud trends impact Africa

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    The latter half of 2022 was characterised by significant instabilities in the tech industry. E-retailer and cloud giant Amazon announced that it would cut tens of thousands of jobs, social media behemoths Twitter and Meta laid off significant percentages of their workforce, and even Microsoft saw its slowest revenue growth in five years.   “There’s chaos in the industry internationally,” says Andrew Cruise, Managing Director of Routed,...

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    22 Nov

    Staying ahead of the spiralling cost of cloud

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    As most of the working world vacated their premises early in 2020, the cloud market boomed. And it continues to do so today, expanding at around 30% per quarter. In fact, analysts estimate that half of all servers currently being shipped worldwide are being bought by just the top seven cloud providers.   But as the market grows, so do the costs. Public cloud prices are expected...

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    03 Nov

    The cloud conversation has changed. It’s faster, smarter, and better for business

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    At the start of the pandemic, anything that could facilitate remote work for scattered business teams, flourished overnight. Microsoft saw two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. Video calling company Zoom’s sales went up 370%. And communication platform Discord’s value more than doubled.   And cloud is no different. In 2020, 87% of global IT decision-makers concurred that the pandemic would accelerate the shift to...

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    07 Oct

    How SA’s cloud market is finally maturing

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    In 1999, CNN published an article with the headline: “Is the internet maturing?” The author referred to the first airline tickets being sold online and said the internet was ‘going ordinary’ – in other words, no longer the playground of the tech-savvy, but more ubiquitous in the average Joe’s life.   Cloud, say experts, is going ordinary too. “Cloud, just like the internet back in the day,...

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    07 Oct

    How cloud technology can boost economic development in Africa

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    Cloud technology could be a major enabler of economic development on the African continent – but some stubborn barriers need to be cleared first, says Andrew Cruise, Managing Director of vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, Routed.   The African continent represents 60 percent of the world’s arable lands and 30 percent of the earth’s mineral reserves – making it a rich continent in many ways. Yet...

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    15 Aug

    When it comes to growing your cloud solutions business, customers are looking for value, not cheap solutions.

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    Infrastructure is the foundation upon which businesses thrive and managed service providers build their businesses, but in today’s environment you need to offer unique solutions that show your customers value if you intend to grow, says Andrew Cruise, Routed Managing Director. Routed is a leading vendor-neutral specialist VMware Cloud provider in South Africa.   A quick search of the current technology trends for this year and...

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    21 Jul

    The hidden costs of owned infrastructure versus cloud

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    By: Andrew Cruise, MD of VMware Cloud provider Routed   If your business, like many others, is faced with the decision of running your own infrastructure or migrating to the cloud, you’ve likely already done your homework. You know that although the benefits cloud offers are numerous, such as increased agility and efficiency, longer-term hardware efficacy and greater security, it comes at a cost.   And, at first glance,...

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    22 Jun

    The real case for colocation

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    Colocation users growing. ISPs and cloud providers are getting on board due to the huge growth in fibre connectivity and the shift to work from home after the pandemic lockdown. But is it right for everyone? asks Andrew Cruise, MD of VMware Cloud provider Routed.  Colocation facilities (colo), where businesses can rent space and power for servers and other computing hardware, are mushrooming in South Africa....

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    26 May

    How to create a cloud migration strategy for your business

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    The benefits of cloud are clear: increased agility and efficiency, longer-term hardware efficacy, and greater security are just some of the perks. Why, then, has everyone not yet moved their operations to cloud? “Eliminating traditional infrastructure is a major undertaking,” says Andrew Cruise, MD of VMware Cloud provider Routed. “And with all the cloud options available today, decision-making has become more complex.” With all the noise out...

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    03 May

    Routed Achieves Gold Status in Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Program

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    Routed, Africa’s pioneer cloud platform, has earned Gold status in the Veeam® Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) program. The company is now one of the select cloud providers to offer its customers Veeam-powered solutions to build reliable, enterprise-grade Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings.   Veeam Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data...

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