Global Micro has been named Microsoft’s Hosting Partner of the Year for the second year running at the Microsoft Partner Awards gala dinner held in Durban on 18th October 2011.

It was an incredibly humbling moment, because it means that you, our customers,...

South African businesses are surprisingly well served with their computer needs and are often in the vanguard of what is new, as Alan Swaby learns.

When Y2K was looming down on businesses at the end of the century, no one was really sure if the whole house of cards would crumble or not. JJ Milner, founder and head of South Africa’s largest Microsoft hosting provider, felt that it wouldn’t; but he understood that his many clients preferred something more concrete to go on than just his gut instinct.

Cloud computing is a business model that incorporates software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as service, the functionality of which can be used on a pay-per-use basis. With software as a service users access applications over the internet, and platform as a service provides a platform for delivering applications and services online, says Richard Vester, executive head of hosted services at Vodacom Business...

Johannesburg-based SME technology provider Uthanda says business is booming since it moved its operations to a cloud-based platform. The trigger behind Uthanda’s enhanced business proposition lies in an agreement signed last year with Global Micro.

Johannesburg-based SaaS and managed service provider Global Micro Solutions has stepped up its aggressive drive into the local market by becoming the first South African company to achieve gold status in Microsoft’s Hosting Solutions Competency.

C2C, the leading provider of messaging system enhancements, today announced that it has forged a SaaS partnership with Global Micro in South Africa to provide an archiving solution for their hosted Microsoft Exchange SaaS environment.