Recently BMW set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons with the announcement of its new subscription-based features set. It is a concept core to SaaS, DRaaS, and every other modern technology offering today – the pay-per-use principle – but as many organisations are now finding out, customers saddled with unacted bills in perpetuity will soon look for alternatives, explains Andrew Cruise, Chief Executive of Routed,...
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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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“Cloud is a limitless resource that can be scaled to meet growing demands,” many cloud providers tell their customers; that is until a surge in resource requirements even at some of the largest providers starts affecting the quality of service. According to this recent article, more than two dozen Microsoft Azure data centres, including key sites in the USA, Europe and Asia, began operating at reduced...
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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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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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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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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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Cloud is a hot topic, with seemingly everyone making the change to cloud. But the numbers don’t add up. What’s happening behind the scenes? In a recent survey by large-scale tech learning platform O’Reilly, 90% of respondents said their organisations are using cloud, and 30% said they’re fully cloud native. This makes it clear why ‘cloud’ is the buzzword on every IT leader’s lips. Seemingly, if...
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If the pandemic taught us one thing, it’s that remote work is a viable alternative to large, expensive offices and IT infrastructure and hardware. “Many South African businesses have slashed their office space after realising that they could save money while still being fully operational remotely,” says Andrew Cruise, Managing Director of vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider, Routed. And though only around 5% of the South African enterprise...
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Vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, Routed, says that the archetypal hybrid or multicloud concept has become needlessly complicated. Managing Director, Andrew Cruise, explains: “Ultimately no-one ever takes a pure route and even pure public cloud does not exist. So, let’s just call it cloud and understand that it covers a variety of scenarios.” Cruise adds that while hybrid cloud is defined as a combination of public...
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