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Fujitsu drives data centre transformation
Fujitsu has announced new
options for enabling businesses
to run mission-critical SAP
HANA workloads on a hyper-converged
infrastructure. These options will allow
businesses to manage and scale advanced,
fully-virtualised SAP solution environments.
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The Fujitsu Integrated System
PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN unlocks
the benefits of decoupling compute,
storage and networking capabilities
from underlying hardware. This means
businesses can enjoy cloud-like
economies by virtualising entire data
centres running all workloads – including
SAP applications and other business
applications running on SAP HANA – on
a common, software-defined pool of
resources. As a result, high-performance
applications can be scaled according to
demand, with the benefit of a unified
management of resources.
Optimising on-premises resources delivers
cost savings and powers the performance
of data-rich applications. This enables
enterprises to plan for the flexible growth
of SAP solution landscapes in line with
the demands of the digital era – while the
hyper-converged approach builds a bridge
to future cloud integration.
Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN
is an end-to-end infrastructure solution
built on best-in class components,
including high-performance, four-socket
Fujitsu PRIMERGY x86 servers, which
have consistently excelled in benchmark
tests and the market-leading VMware
virtualisation software vSAN.
Microsoft launches first data centres in Africa
icrosoft’s first data centres
in Africa are now open to
customers, with the general
availability of Microsoft Azure from
new cloud regions in Johannesburg and
Cape Town.
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The investment will drive significant
growth, in line with both the
continent’s Digital Transformation
objectives and the realisation of new
economic opportunities.
Dynamics 365, the next generation of
intelligent business applications.
With locally delivered cloud services
from data centres in South Africa,
companies now have the option to
move to the cloud while maintaining
security and meeting compliance
needs in addition to benefiting from
improved performance, afforded by
the closer geographic location of the
new data centres.
Microsoft has
launched data
centres in
Johannesburg
and Cape Town
The launch also makes Microsoft the
first global provider to deliver cloud
services from data centres on the
continent, with these two new regions
joining the 54 available and announced
regions worldwide, more than any
other cloud provider.
Azure is the first of Microsoft’s
intelligent cloud services to be available
from the new Microsoft cloud data
centres in Africa and will be followed in
the future by Microsoft’s cloud-based
productivity solution, Office 365 and
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