Obsidian becomes Africa’s only Red Hat Specialized Partner for Server/Cloud OS

Obsidian becomes Africa’s only Red Hat Specialized Partner for Server/Cloud OS

Muggie van Staden, CEO of Obsidian Systems. Obsidian Systems has achieved Red Hat Specialized Partner status for Server/Cloud OS, becoming the only partner in Africa to hold this specialisation to date. The designation reflects advanced technical expertise around Red Hat Enterprise Linux, supported by formal Red Hat training and certification together with validated services capability….

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Context is the missing piece in enterprise AI: Obsidian

Context is the missing piece in enterprise AI: Obsidian

Obsidian Systems’ Smarter.tech ’26 brought enterprise technology leaders and practitioners together online to tackle a question that gets harder to answer with every new platform launch: what does working smarter actually mean for organisations already carrying complex infrastructure and stretched teams, and now under pressure to adopt AI responsibly? The answer that ran through the…

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Obsidian leads the shift from Opsgenie to Jira

Obsidian leads the shift from Opsgenie to Jira

Obsidian Systems CEO Muggie van Staden Opsgenie may be reaching its end of life, but for South African IT teams, that marks the beginning of a smarter, more unified incident-management journey. In a recent webinar, Obsidian Systems unpacked what this transition means in practice, showing how to cut through alert noise and improve time-to-restore by…

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Atlassian, Obsidian share 5 game-changing automation hacks in latest Jira webinar

Atlassian, Obsidian share 5 game-changing automation hacks in latest Jira webinar

Obsidian Systems chief marketing officer Angela Ho On 30 June 2025, more than 100 professionals from across South Africa’s leading finance, telecommunications, retail and IT sectors tuned in to the highly anticipated webinar “Automation in Jira: Do More with Less”. This collaborative event was hosted by Obsidian Systems and Atlassian, and powered by TechCentral. In…

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