Dell launches Partner First Strategy for Storage

Dell Technologies has announced its Partner First Strategy for Storage, which designates more than 99% of Dell’s customers and potential customers as partner-led for storage sales. The new go-to-market strategy combines partner expertise and reach with Dell’s...

Commvault expands AWS relationship

Commvault has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by joining the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Workload Migration Program (WMP) and attaining multiple AWS Service Ready Program designations. As part of the AWS Service Ready Program,...

Cisco, Nutanix forge global strategic partnership

Cisco and Nutanix have announced a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multicloud deployments by offering a hyperconverged solution for IT modernisation and business transformation. IT organisations continue to face significant operational hurdles and...
DCC scoops Lenovo channel award

DCC scoops Lenovo channel award

For the third year in a row for official distributor, Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has walked away with an award at the annual Lenovo South Africa Channel Awards. This year the distributor won IDG Workstation Distributor of the Year FY22/23 at the awards ceremony...

Axiz joins forces with Pure Storage

Axiz has announced its strategic partnership with Pure Storage, distributing its full portfolio including FlashArray, FlashBlade, Portworx, Pure Cloud Block Store and Fusion, all available on a subscription model. “As organisations advance their deployment of...

Commvault celebrates partners

Commvault hosted its 2023 SADC Partner Awards on 23 August 2023. Kate Mollett, regional director for Commvault Africa, comments: “We understand that our partners are not just stakeholders but integral members of our extended family. The Partner Awards serve as a...

Redington expands into SA

Redington is expanding to the South African market, offering more than 15 global brands and opening support offices in Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Johannesburg. Viswanath Pallasena, CEO of Redington Middle East, and Africa, says: “We are excited to...

Redvine Networks collaborates with Lytn

Redvine Networks has collaborated with French software developer Lytn to combine machine learning (ML) and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to build a solution exclusively for the African continent to proactively optimise network performance for customer...

FICO, LigaData partner in Africa

Global analytics software provider FICO has announced a partnership with LigaData to bring decision management and optimisation tools to telecommunications firms in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. LigaData and FICO will offer hybrid-cloud and SaaS...
Architecting the future of supercomputing

Architecting the future of supercomputing

​As chief architect and principal investigator for the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, Olivier Franza plays a leading role in bringing one of the most ambitious scientific instruments – not to mention the world’s largest GPU cluster –...