Talend, a global leader in data integration and integrity, has announced the hiring of Mark Fazackerley as Regional Vice President of Sales for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Fazackerley is responsible for driving regional business development and growth, including expanding Talend’s partner ecosystem and reporting to Stu Garrow, Senior Vice President of Sales and General […]

Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, has announced the acquisition of erwin to enable organisations to realise the exceptional business benefits of data fully. Erwin’s solutions strengthen Quest’s market-leading data toolset, adding new capabilities to drive significant data initiatives and the deployment of modern applications while ensuring regulatory compliance. […]

Kao Data, a specialist developer and operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has announced two senior director appointments to underpin its next phase of campus growth and bolster its leadership team. Following the recent appointment of CEO, Lee Myall, Rod Faul joins as Senior Client Director from VIRTUS, and Tom […]

Seagate’s expanded hard drive capacity offers flexibility and performance for modern video security system needs. Seagate Technology plc, a global leader in data storage and management solutions, has announced it is shipping 18TB SkyHawk Artificial Intelligence (AI) drives in volume. According to Seagate, SkyHawk AI is the world’s first purpose-built hard drive for Artificial Intelligence-enabled […]

Mass capacity storage and high-performance servers come together in the perfect software-defined storage platform, Exos Application Platform (AP). Seagate Technology plc, a global provider of  data storage and management solutions, has announced it is shipping 18TB helium-based enterprise drives in volume as part of the ExosX18 family. The new drive delivers high performance and mass […]

Quantum has announced it has acquired Square Box Systems, a specialist in data cataloguing, user collaboration and digital asset management software. The acquisition builds on Quantum’s recently expanded portfolio that classifies, manages and protects data across its lifecycle by adding technology advancements to further enrich video, digital images and other forms of unstructured data. This […]

Clinton Scott, MD at TechSoft, explains what he thinks is the most important part of a Digital Transformation strategy. Given the growth of data in recent years, effectively understanding, analysing and using it to drive the business must be considered one of the most critical aspects of a Digital Transformation strategy. After all, not having […]

Talend,  a global leader in data integration and integrity, has announced an expanded partnership with Snowflake, provider of the Data Cloud through Snowflake Partner Connect. The platform offers Snowflake customers a two-week trial through which they can now seamlessly experience Talend Data Fabric, including the recently announced Talend Trust Score that enables companies to easily assess and improve data […]

InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability and speed problems, has been named a visionary in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). Of the 16 vendors included, InterSystems is one of four companies positioned as a Visionary. InterSystems IRIS Data Platform […]

Teraco Data Environments, one of Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre providers, has announced that construction has commenced on a new hyperscale data centre with 38 megawatts (MW) of critical power load in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The facility, known as JB4, is scheduled for completion in Q1 2022 and as a […]