Claranet | Blog

In his short blog, Arniel de Preez runs through his life as Head of Solution Design at Claranet.

This year we’ve all been disrupted by COVID-19, personally and professionally. The changes have been fast and, in some cases, severe.

As a discipline, FinOps is often seen as a central function of an organisation – something managed by core operations teams and governed by finance. But that is only part of the picture.

Every business has data. Some businesses can spin gold from their data but others merely collect it in the hopes of getting value someday.

Every business has data. Some businesses can spin gold from their data but others merely collect it in the hopes of getting value someday.

Every business has data. Some organisations can spin gold from their data, but others merely collect it in the hopes of getting value someday.

Every business has data. Some organisations can spin gold from their data, but others merely collect it in the hopes of getting value someday.

The beauty of moving everything to the Cloud is that you have it one place. For many, the start of this is the journey into data collection and storage, where we start putting all the data together.

Starting a new job can be nerve-racking at the best of times but doing this during a global pandemic adds an extra layer of uncertainty.

Application modernisation is a new paradigm shift towards how these applications can be delivered in a new cloud landscape.

The pace of adopting cloud is accelerating, as the maturity and benefits of moving to cloud increase.

One of the main benefits to using IaC is being able to have pre-approved, repeatable sets of infrastructure that can be deployed over and over again with minimal deviation between deployments.

With COVID-19 driving up adoption of cloud and remote working, organisations are having to focus significant efforts on securing their cloud footprint. This also means that the hyperscalers...

Increasing acceptance of IoT adoption within organisations is a hurdle that has to be overcome.

For over five years we have worked with many customers with their go-to cloud journeys and in that time, have come across two distinct mindsets.

As businesses look to the cloud to ensure business resiliency and to spur innovation, we continue to see customer migrations to Azure accelerate.

Many business owners using Microsoft 365 believe that their data is totally secure. The reality, however, is a different story.

With the workforce now distributed, we need a more agile, flexible, and security-conscious way of building connectivity between users, sites, and services.