After having gone through the top technology trends that we experienced in 2018, we felt it only right that we look forward to this year, 2019, and place some bets on what we think are going to be the...
Let’s assume that you have taken care of the obvious, which is a business idea, there are several things that are key to providing a professional image that will result in customers and investors in your business. You need to...
Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Startups, Value Add
Amazon Web Services, AWS, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Cloud Technology, Resources, SMB Cloud, Startup
Written by Kevin Derman CEO Kaskade.Cloud I am sure that there is no one who would argue against the notion that the world is getting faster and faster. The rate of technological change is accelerating and most of us...
Amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy
Amazon Web Services, AWS, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Cloud Technology, Consulting, Leadership, management, SMB Cloud
Written by Russell Warne Chief Customer Officer Kaskade.cloud In the first part of this blog post, we covered the analogy of comparing different cloud providers to villages, towns, cities and mega-cities. If you missed it you can read it...
Amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Business Solutions, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, Innovation, SMB
Amazon Web Services, AWS, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Cloud Technology, Consulting, Leadership, SMB Cloud
Part One – What is cloud anyway? By Russell Warne CCO Kaskade Whatever industry you’re in, you tend to forget that what seems obvious to you is Greek to someone who isn’t in the same game. In IT we’re...
Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Cloud Technology, Consulting, SMB Cloud
Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Cloud Technology, Consulting, SMB Cloud
There may be a couple of places left for the CloudHealth Cost Optimisation Masterclass – please check out the links for the Cape Town or Johannesburg event to verify. News – If you’ve been waiting for EC2 server instance size to reach “yowzers!”, you’ll...
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Consulting, Cost Optimisation, events, Machine Learning, Resources
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Consulting, Cost Optimisation, Events, Machine Learning, Resources
In January this year, I made a few predictions on what the top IT topics would be in Africa for 2018. I happened to do something today that few ever actually do, and that is verify if the predictions...
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Consulting, Expo, investment, IT Predictions, Machine Learning, management
Open up any technology article these days and you will find mention of Artificial Intelligence in one or another shape or form. The reference will either be touting one of the amazing benefits we experience with using AI or...
Amazon Web Services, Artificial Intelligence, AWS, Cloud Computing, GoogleML, Machine Learning, MachineLearning
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Strategy, Consulting, Machine Learning
Reserved instances (RI’s and other lesser known reservation options) are a great way to save money. But they can also be quite confusing, especially when it comes to things like cross-account RI float, size flexibility and variable attributes. Let’s...
AWS, Cloud Billing, Cloud Computing, CloudHealth, Cost Assessment, Cost Explorer, Cost Optimisation, CostOptimisation, Value Add
Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Consulting, Cost Optimisation
When it comes to cutting costs on AWS, the biggest chunk to aim for is compute cost. In our experience,compute services – think anything EC2 backed – make up almost 70% of an organization’s AWS spend, which makes it...
Amazon Web Services, AWS, Cloud Billing, CloudHealth, Cost Assessment, Cost Explorer, Cost Optimisation, CostOptimisation, EC2
Cloud Migration, Cloud Strategy, Consulting, Cost Optimisation