Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 14 | Page 9

NEWS Demand accelerates for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 365 users. From Q2 2017 to Q3 2017, sales for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 grew 83%. In the most recent fiscal quarter, from Q3 2017 to Q4 2017, sales grew even faster with the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v1.5, at 327%, accelerating Veeam’s overall momentum; and reporting four consecutive quarters of growth. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides organisations with additional options to protect their data on top of the automatic data replication Microsoft provides across its data centres, as well as native resiliency controls available in Office 365. This combination lets companies have complete control of their data and ensure availability to their users. V eeam Software, the ‘Availability for the Always-On Enterprise.’ innovator, has announced that it has experienced strong and accelerating demand for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 since the product’s initial release. Over 25,000 organisations have downloaded the software, representing in aggregate more than 2.3 million Microsoft Office As enterprises look to place more critical services in the cloud, there is a huge opportunity for those able to deliver the data protection and availability needed in this environment; Veeam is poised to lead this market. “It’s a big mistake to think that enterprises no longer need to be concerned about ensuring availability and protecting their data in the cloud,” said Paul Mattes, Vice President of Global Cloud Group at Veeam. ///////////////// Argility announces acquisition of mobile company Argility CEO, Marko Salic, said that Indaba Mobile leverages social commerce in a way that enables people to use the platform on various levels. “For example, businesses can engage in chat with their customer base and deliver digital content while enabling the distribution of vouchers and coupons to facilitate transactions. Any organisation, large enterprise or SME, can use this platform to connect with customers but most importantly in a secure, private, closed loop in which to deliver information and transact.” Marko Salic, Argility CEO A rgility, an innovator of enterprise software solutions, has announced its latest acquisition following on the heels of its formation of the Argility Technology Group late last year. The acquisition of Indaba Mobile from Capital Eye Investments, concluded at the www.intelligentcio.com end of January 2018, brings the number of companies in the newly formed group to four, with holding company Argility, Cquential Solutions and Fleet Domain. Indaba Mobile is a social mobile commerce platform which delivers content, chat and transacting capabilities via a social network. Salic said that this is the latest step in the group’s acquisition drive. “This is part of our drive to position the Argility group as a leader in disruptive software technologies such as artificial intelligence, prescriptive analytics, IoT and blockchain,” he said. INTELLIGENTCIO 9