COVID-19 may grind your business to a halt, but your obligations are alive and well. If only the organization’s constitution had a pandemic clause; one that allowed you to abandon all activities except those deemed essential. Sadly, the constitution template didn’t include that clause. Now you have to figure out how to hold an AGM […]
The path to fully virtualized infrastructure started with VMware virtualizing datacenter infrastructure in 1998. Up until then, at least on the x86 platform, if you wanted to run your workload you had to buy a separate server for it; this was the core reason internet startups in that age needed so much capital, you had […]
Node Africa’s hosted PBX service offering allows companies and remote workers to carry around their office lines with them with the help of the cloud. Long gone are the days when you had to be in the office to receive those important business calls. Now with our voice offering, you can setup your desktop or […]
It’s been 4 years since you implemented your organization’s core system for running operations. Back then, you sized out the environment, did an educated thumb suck for what your needs would be 4 years into the future and bought not only the needed hardware for that moment but also some extra to cater for the […]
Voices from the clouds have, for the better part of human history, been linked directly to spiritual experiences and the heralding of the end times. These vary from a biblical deity’s acknowledgment of paternity to said deity recruiting a young prophet, with several other illustrative examples happening. This will not be what we’re exploring in […]
As a business grows and matures, many harbor the desire to increase efficiency via automation and streamlined processes. They then start to explore what Enterprise Resource Planning system would best fit their processes and budgets then invest in the licences, supporting infrastructure and implementation in the hopes of realizing 10X + performance. The costs of […]
Data Loss Prevention – What is it? DLP stands for Data Loss Prevention, which is a bit of a misleading moniker as most people quickly conjure up thoughts of data being deleted, and whilst this is critical a term that would better capture the gravity of DLP is Data Leak Prevention. In today’s economy, data […]
It is said that, in life, death and taxes are the only certain things but when it comes to IT systems, failure is guaranteed. Disaster recovery is not about IF systems fail but rather WHEN they do. Failure arises from a variety of sources ranging from the fact that we are human(to err is human) […]
At Node Africa, we focus on ensuring that our customers derive value from our service, because we believe that we are not just a supplier, but a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. Once every fortnight going forward, we will, on Thursdays, document customer journeys. We will profile our customers who are using our […]