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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Leading cloud providers in South Africa

    Leading cloud providers in South Africa MyBroadband’s business IT decision-maker survey revealed that Google is the preferred cloud provider in South Africa. The survey further showed that Teraco tops the data centre list, and Afrihost reigns supreme in the hosting sector.
    • Hanno Labuschagne
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    • amazon web services (aws) cloud cloud services data centres dimension data google cloud microsoft azure teraco
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  3. Enigmata

    Vacancy - Cloud Infrastructure Presales

    Introduction The incumbent will be responsible for working closely with Sales and Account Management teams and customers to understand their business needs and provide effective technology solutions. The ideal candidate should possess excellent technical knowledge of Microsoft products and...
    • Enigmata
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    • microsoft azure presales
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    • Forum: IT Jobs
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Nvidia launches new AI chips to power AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure

    Nvidia launches new AI chips to power AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure Riding the surge of hype around ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products, Nvidia Corp. introduced new chips, supercomputing services and a raft of high-profile partnerships Tuesday intended to showcase how...
  5. Jan

    MTN deploys 5G Standalone core in Microsoft Azure

    MTN deploys 5G Standalone core in Microsoft cloud MTN has conducted a proof of concept for a 5G Standalone core fully deployed in Microsoft Azure. It said this was a first-of-its-kind deployment. It conducted the proof of concept with all of the 5G Standalone core elements, including the...
    • Jan
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    • amith maharaj microsoft microsoft azure mtn tad brockway
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. Jan

    Cloud service roundup for South Africa - February 2023

    Top cloud services in South Africa South African businesses have five major cloud services to choose from that can make their operations more flexible, efficient, and unlock strategic value. If you've used the Internet in the past few years, you have likely accessed a website or app that runs...
    • Jan
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    • amazon web services (aws) google cloud huawei cloud microsoft microsoft azure oracle cloud
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  7. Jan

    Microsoft gives preliminary post-incident review of cloud outage

    Why Microsoft's whole cloud was broken for hours Microsoft says the major hours-long global outage of its cloud services resulted from packet forwarding issues caused by a planned router IP address update. In a recent post-incident review, the tech giant explained that the packet forwarding...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • microsoft microsoft 365 microsoft azure microsoft teams outlook
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft profits boosted by Azure — but Xbox and Windows sales struggle

    Microsoft profits boosted by Azure — but Xbox and Windows sales struggle Microsoft Corp.’s second-quarter profit topped analysts’ estimates, helped by strength in its Azure cloud-services business even as demand slumped for personal-computer and corporate software. Shares rose more than 4% in...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft Azure is getting ChatGPT

    Microsoft Azure is getting ChatGPT integration Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI’s viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service “soon,” building on an existing relationship between the two companies as Microsoft mulls taking a far larger stake in OpenAI. The...
  10. Jan

    Microsoft confirms Ubuntu 18.04 systemd update caused DNS problems on Azure VMs

    Ubuntu update causes server downtime on Microsoft Azure Ubuntu developers released a patch for a core component, systemd, morning that caused problems for servers hosted in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform on Tuesday morning. The issue was reported by South African Ubuntu user “Pieter” (a.k.a...
  11. Jan

    Microsoft announces general availability of Ampere Altra chips in Azure virtual machines

    Microsoft launches Ampere-powered Azure virtual machines Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Machines featuring the Ampere Altra processor, based on the Arm architecture. From 1 September 2022, Azure customers can launch the virtual machines (VMs) in ten regions...
  12. Jan

    South Africa's data centre growth

    Growth of data centres in South Africa South Africa's data centre market is growing rapidly, with industry players building bigger and more advanced data centres. The list of companies with facilities in the country continues to grow after Teraco kicked off South Africa's carrier-neutral data...
    • Jan
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    • alphabet amazon amazon web services (aws) google huawei microsoft microsoft azure nippon telegraph and telephone (ntt) oracle teraco vantage data centres west indian ocean cable company (wiocc)
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  13. Jan

    Microsoft confirms Teams and Azure problems in South Africa

    Major Microsoft Teams and Azure outage in South Africa Network connectivity issues are affecting Microsoft services in South Africa, the company has reported. Microsoft says that the issues started as early as 10:00 in South Africa.
  14. oldBastard

    Azure network issues

    Anybody else experiencing packet loss from or to Azure? Our peer is fine, but anything in the Azure network we get packet loss. Teams are unusable and logging onto the Azure portal is a mission.
  15. Jan

    Ampere Altra Arm-based processors previewed in Microsoft Azure VMs

    Azure Virtual Machines get Ampere Altra Arm-based processors Microsoft has announced a preview of Ampere Altra Arm-based processors within its Azure Virtual Machine (VM) series. The new Azure VMs are designed to efficiently run scale-out workloads, web servers, application servers, open-source...
  16. Anthro

    Routing issues.. Cybersmart Lightspeed to Azure

    I am again having routing issues, this time on my home ISP to servers and services in Azure. Worked last week, now no longer... What is going on with the network layers between Service Providers these days ? Do Cybersmart or Lightspeed even have a representative on here ? I can SSH to this...
  17. Jan

    Microsoft launches Azure Availability Zones in South Africa North region

    Microsoft Azure Availability Zones launched in South Africa Microsoft has launched Azure Availability Zones in its South Africa North region, the company announced in a short update on its website. "Availability Zones in South Africa North are made up of three unique physically separated...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • azure availability zones distributed denial of service (ddos) microsoft microsoft azure
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  18. I

    Azure Credits for Open Source Projects

    https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/09/28/announcing-azure-credits-for-open-source-projects/ Microsoft are offering one year's Azure credits to Open Source projects. Any projects with an OSI approved license are eligible to apply.
  19. Chris

    Microsoft submerging server racks into boiling liquid

    Microsoft submerging server racks into boiling liquid Microsoft recently revealed a new datacentre cooling process that involves submerging its server racks into boiling liquid to improve power and energy efficiency. This forms part of the company’s multi-purpose approach to make datacentres...
  20. Hanno Labuschagne

    South Africa wants to take on dominant cloud providers

    South Africa wants to take on dominant cloud providers Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, has published a proposed National Data and Cloud Policy, setting out government’s plan to tackle the issue of dominant market powers in the global cloud computing...
  21. ethan

    Azure VPN can't connect

    Hi, I recently spun up a VM for me via Microsoft Azure portal. I am using the VM as a primary workstation because of resource limitations on our office thin client PC's. The VPN fails to connect using PPTP (via Azure VM). My home office PC connects to the office VPN via PPTP without hassles...
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