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Today, downtime means lost productivity, lost income and potentially lost customers. According to an Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC) survey, 98% of respondents say that a single hour of downtime costs the business over R1.3million.

In IT, two goals that, at first glance, contradict each other are data protection and the ecological protection of our planet.

A lot is being done to keep the ecological footprint of data centers as small as possible; economical and energy-efficient. Server and storage solutions, and the relocation of entire data centers to climatically more suitable zones, is also on the agenda. But with the growing threats from cyber criminals and higher data protection requirements, efforts to ensure a ‘greener’ IT environment can be thwarted.

In IT, there are two goals that contradict each other at first glance: Data protection and the greatest possible consideration for the fragile ecology of our planet.

We live in fast times. So fast in fact that a recent Google study showed that over half of users will abandon a website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Any online business knows if the website goes down, users will simply check out the competition and get the product/service they want elsewhere.

Load-shedding has become synonymous with day to day life in South Africa. But while it’s easy enough for a residence or small business to work around a blackout, larger enterprises face far greater – and pricier – consequences when they don’t have access to critical data.

Load-shedding has become synonymous with day to day life in South Africa. But while it’s easy enough for a residence or small business to work around a blackout, larger enterprises face far greater – and pricier – consequences when they don’t have access to critical data.

Eran Brown, EMEA CTO of Infinidat, argues that AI could - and should - be used to optimise storage environments

Statistics gathered from the Gartner Symposium held in Cape Town in September 2018, stated that 60% of South African organisations use cloud services today. This percentage is expected to increase with the imminent rollout of local data centres by public cloud powerhouses, creating a 'market' where organisations will be able to choose between local or global public cloud and private cloud environments.

Redefining the Datacentre for today's digital world. By Kirsten Doyle.