Contents
UPFRONT
02
Managing Director’s Welcome Letter
FIRST FOR CLOUD FOCUS
06
A New Dawn: Introducing First for Cloud
16
On Cloud Nine: All the action from the launch of First for
Cloud
22
Cloud Brokerages: A growing trend
24
Taming the Cloud: Cloud brokerages alleviating new issues
relating to BYOD and BYOS
26
Does a Cloud Provider’s Services Have to Comply with
PoPI?: Clarity on the POPI Act and its impact on cloud
30
Moving Your Business to the Cloud: Inherent profitability in
the current market shift
2013 PMG Cloud Sprawl Survey: How the public and private
32
cloud is impacting enterprise IT
FIRST DISTRIBUTION BRAND AND
PRODUCT MANAGER FOCUS
36
A Cut Above: Focusing on First Distribution’s skilled human
capital
FIRST DISTRIBUTION VENDOR
SPONSORSHIP FOCUS
49
SoftLayer, an IBM Company
56 Pamoja
68
McAfee, an Intel Company
70 Oracle
72 VMware
THE FIRST DISTRIBUTION STACK
78
Client Computing
79
Hosted Solutions
80
Security
81
Software
Virtualisation
82
83
Storage
84
Servers
85 Networking