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Moving forward with a hybrid multi-cloud strategy
If you love IT complexity and its associated headaches, stop reading. If, however, you’re tired of your inbox blowing up with alerts because your infrastructure is offline again, please read on. The future of IT is a hybrid multi-cloud, and this is where you should start your journey and explore the options Nutanix has to offer. In short, Nutanix will be...
Testing omni-channel digital services in production
Bugs end up in production all the time, despite our collective best efforts to prevent this. Can you better prepare your DevOps team to handle this? If your organization delivers omni-channel digital services to your customers, then you almost certainly have a CICD pipeline that includes test automation as part of your development and delivery process....
Software-defined DataCenter, your answer to managing multi-generational infrastructure
There are so many aspects to take into account when refreshing your IT infrastructure, even though you might have your requirements pegged down, that is the easy part. The part that isn’t always taken into consideration is that goal posts shift and your business needs...
Tailored Technology Leasing Solutions
Now more than ever, we are faced with the following question from many of our CTO’s and CFO’s...How do we limit our IT expenditure whilst keeping up with the technological demands of our business? IT Investment Even During a Downturn Bigger, better and faster systems...
WhatsApp banking channel monitoring by Apogee
Banking is changing. The way people interact with their banks have fundamentally changed over the last couple of years, and especially since the effects of social distancing have accelerated digital transformation in all organisations. Chat based self service...
Is monitoring important?
What is monitoring? Monitoring, in its simplest form, has been around since the beginning of time. It’s not a new phenomenon developed by engineers to ensure that your application is up and still running. The Oxford dictionary has multiple definitions of the...
Improving the digital experience by dispersing more probes – the case for multiple Apogee sites
A customer calls your help desk with a service issue: how do you tell if the issue is isolated to this customer, to the regional network or entire user base, or whether it’s a problem with this specific service, or applicable to a broader set? Do you wait and see...
It’s not me, it’s you
There’s a multitude of transactions, processing points and interactions that occur between the source and the destination when making a digital transaction via a mobile network or otherwise. What could go wrong? Actually, quite a lot. When it comes to supporting...
Photon – a case for high resolution monitoring
When implementing systems monitoring, many of our customers often demand extremely high resolution system metric gathering, because they feel that a very short sampling interval between data points is required so as to best serve their needs. Fortunately, Breakpoint’s...
Processing log events at scale with Alluvia
Lets face it: processing logs take up loads of cycles - your own, but also heaps of CPU cycles, especially when you need to trawl through complex patterns contained in logs, and most of the log entries don’t have proper context to bind it to a transaction, process,...
In SA’s increasingly tech-savvy climate, what challenges are neo-banks going to face?
There might be a determined need for low-fee, zero-fuss banking in South Africa right now, but to take on the big guns, neo-banks need to earn consumer trust by ensuring a top-notch customer experience. It’s no secret that neo-banks (fully digital banks without a...
Alluvia – recent successes
Deploying innovative near real-time, low footprint analytics solutions for two leading Mobile Network Operators in Africa As governments apply more pressure on MNOS to decrease their rates, operators are forced to become more cost effective and this while improving...