What is AWS Marketplace?
Synthesis Head of Marketing and People Howard Feldman sits down with AWS Marketplace Senior Category Manager Kuda Mlingo to discuss what exactly the AWS Marketplace is.
Synthesis at The AWS Summit 2023
Join us and Synthesis Managing Director Michael Shapiro at the 2023 AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Born in Adversity: Start-up Stories
Succeeding as a start-up is about not only having the ability to see what is possible but the drive to persevere when everyone else cannot.
Join our expert panel as they share their startup stories, what it takes to push through adversity, advice for thriving in times of Corona and how they all tapped into one technology (AWS Cloud) that assisted their growth.
AWS Summit Cape Town 2019
Synthesis were gold sponsors at the 2019 AWS Summit in Cape Town held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The event kicked off with a keynote address by Peter DeSantis who spoke about the importance of choosing the right cloud provider as well as the upcoming region in Cape Town. TymeBank, Old Mutual and the University of Pretoria also spoke about how they are using AWS internally to solve business problems.
Synthesis’s CDO Tom Wells, kicked off a session with Standard Bank about real time personalization. Synthesis also participated in the DeepRacer event that was held at the summit
How to Build a Custom Automated Call Center Analytics Solution on AWS
Hugo Loubser, Synthesis Associate Principal Machine Learning Engineer, takes us through the process of how to build a Custom Automated Call Center Analytics Solution on AWS from the 2023 AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Recent IDC report highlights enhanced business value through Amazon Web Services
Darryl Govender, Synthesis’ Head of Cloud Consulting shares his insights on the IDC’s report on Fostering business and organisational transformation to generate business value with Amazon Web Services: “Customers’ increased expectations of always-on systems strongly advocate for the use of cloud-enabled hyperscale technologies. Companies leveraging DevOps approaches on AWS, for example, are able to deliver […]
Synthesis welcomes Amazon Web Services’ Region announcement, expecting this move to boost South African cloud infrastructure
Synthesis Software Technologies welcomes the recent announcement that Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) will be opening an infrastructure region, in Cape Town in the first half of 2020. AWS is the world’s leading cloud platform provider, and the new region, will be its first on the African continent. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region […]
Hyperscale cloud being used to increase scope of financial services
The following excerpt comes from an interview of Michael Shapiro, Managing Director of Synthesis, by Engineering News “Financial services companies in South Africa are using hyperscale cloud systems to increase their range of services, lower costs and reach into new markets, says Michael Shapiro. Financial services firms can innovate by using the many detailed, technical capabilities of […]
Synthesis sponsors IT Web Cloud Summit 2018
Synthesis was a sponsor at the annual IT Web Cloud Summit held on the 8 February at Vodacom World in Midrand. The conference saw participants from a variety of industries ranging from banking to agriculture. Synthesis sponsored the urban café stand, where delegates could order coffee directly with ‘Alexa’, Amazon’s EchoDot. This service would then […]
Synthesis sponsors Mybroadband Cloud Hosting & Security Conference
Synthesis was a sponsor of the annual Mybroadband Cloud Hosting & Security conference held on the 10th of May at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. This year’s conference saw well over 1 500 IT Professionals attending the event from a diverse range of industries and disciplines. This year was the first time Synthesis sponsored the […]