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You want to expand your cloud infrastructure. After doing some research, you find a public cloud provider that offers all the features and functionality you need to host your custom application. Over time, customers start asking for alternatives that are only available via a proprietary public cloud from a different vendor. Now you have aRead more

Companies around the globe are embracing cloud as a key business enabler. During the coronavirus pandemic, cloud deployments accelerated dramatically as businesses searched for ways to keep the lights on despite lockdown restrictions. Going forward, around 95% of organisations plan to increase their cloud spend in 2021. But where are they spending this money? And what cloud computing solutionsRead more

When it comes to cloud, adoption doesn’t always mean optimisation. Especially when you consider that over a quarter of global cloud spend is wasted, according to Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud Report, which is based on a survey of 750 executives from businesses across the globe. The study found that spend went over budget byRead more

When it comes to overall IT spend, South Africa is still far behind its international counterparts. But this doesn’t mean that South African brands aren’t spending money on IT. In recent months, we’ve seen a number of IT trends gaining momentum as a result of the global pandemic and many of these are likely toRead more

For most companies, going digital means moving to the cloud. While the benefits of cloud are clear, what many business leaders don’t realise is that tracking cloud expenses and keeping costs under control can be tricky. As part of our global expansion, Nebula CTO, Andre Witte,  moved to Amsterdam to help European businesses make theRead more

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is expected to reach $116 billion in 2020; driven by a real need to protect worker data as businesses rapidly shift to remote work. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed everything IT-related in the spotlight, especially as businesses search for opportunities to boost efficiency and reduce costs. SaaS solutions are often easyRead more

Last week, Nebula was named ISV partner of the year at the Microsoft Partner Awards South Africa. The award is handed out to the partner who shows excellence in innovation and the implementation of customer solutions using Microsoft technology. Other finalists in the ISV partner award category included customer experience and customer journey analytics softwareRead more

OneView Cloud Expense Management, the latest module available in Nebula’s OneView Technology Expense Management platform has launched in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Given the incredible growth of cloud based SaaS solutions and the rise of self-service B2B Marketplaces – we wrote more about the trend here – this is a no-brainer as the geo-expansion approachRead more

Efficiency is defined as the ability to produce something with a minimum amount of effort. Depending on what you’re doing, efficiency is based on different metrics. In sport, for example, achieving greater efficiency is all about how much energy you expend while performing a certain action – like moving through the water when swimming or travellingRead more

Last year, a survey of 400 local IT decision makers revealed that 77% of South African businesses have embraced cloud. Unsurprisingly, as usage grows, so do cloud-related expenses. This is especially true when businesses don’t have processes or solutions in place to monitor the cloud services they’re using. If you don’t understand the value ofRead more