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Breakpoint helps leading university upgrade research HPC – within budget
Breakpoint Solutions has enabled a leading South African university to upgrade its high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support resource-intensive research. The upgrade gives the university cloud-like agility to support researchers, while simplifying management for the small IT team.
Ongoing load shedding: what IT needs to do next
Load shedding will continue for at least another 18 months, dashing hopes of power stability in the short term. 25 independent power projects have been selected to help alleviate pressure on the national grid, but are not expected to start making an impact before 2024. Business continuity depends on uninterrupted power, which means organisations must now take the plunge and consider the best way to assure this, despite the fact that there will be a significant cost involved.
Sweating assets: how to power business growth without new kit
Right now many businesses needs IT innovation, new apps and digital transformation, but there isn’t the budget. Or the new kit needed to support transformation is held up by component shortages and delays. With some careful planning, you can sweat your assets, repurpose existing infrastructure and lean on the cloud to support business and its changing needs.
Stealth attacks as big a risk as ransomware
New disruptive forces are coming at us from all sides, creating a ‘superstorm’ that is already impacting forecasting, budgeting, IT provisioning and overall digital strategy. The semiconductor supply is constrained. It dovetails with inflation, the rand-dollar exchange fluctuations, interest rate hikes, soaring fuel costs and loadshedding. This creates uncertainty about how to manage the hybrid and remote workforce in a future-proof way and makes forecasting, even six months ahead, challenging.
C-suite must become even more adaptable to weather market ‘superstorm’
New disruptive forces are coming at us from all sides, creating a ‘superstorm’ that is already impacting forecasting, budgeting, IT provisioning and overall digital strategy. The semiconductor supply is constrained. It dovetails with inflation, the rand-dollar exchange fluctuations, interest rate hikes, soaring fuel costs and loadshedding. This creates uncertainty about how to manage the hybrid and remote workforce in a future-proof way and makes forecasting, even six months ahead, challenging.
Getting the cloud budget-risk-reward balance right in uncertain times
Predictions that load shedding could worsen are proving to be the last straw for many business leaders who are trying to achieve resilience in uncertain times. For some, assuring continuity amid power outages, floods, riots and economic uncertainty is prompting a...
Inclusive mobile banking slows innovation as telcos meet ongoing need for legacy features
To deliver inclusive mobile services, telcos and financial institutions continue to incorporate USSD functionality in their new products. Developers are constrained by limited functionality on their mobile banking products, in order to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of users who only have access to feature phones. Breakpoint offers insights and examples of how to revolutionise automated testing for continuous QA.
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...
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...
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...