Cloud now an essential business tool

The recent emergence of Stage 6 loadshedding on the South African business landscape saw added interest in cloud services from local firms eager to insulate themselves from the country’s energy fallout. A 2019 cloud survey shed light on cloud adoption by local...

2020: The technology trends to watch

It is expected that 2020 will see a myriad of innovative technologies starting to enter the mainstream. And while many of them have been around for a while, South African companies will only now start realising the potential benefits they can unlock. By Ian Jansen van...

KES slashes costs with custom print and copier solution

It’s a problem most school administrators face in South Africa: how to cut costs and make the most of tight budgets. At King Edward VII School (KES) in Johannesburg, they’re improving technology and cutting costs by looking in an unconventional direction – the...

Questions to ask before choosing your anti-malware solution

Security vendors such as Kaspersky Lab report that they process as many as 360,000 new malicious file variants a day, making it clear that everyone who uses a computer for personal tasks and work still needs robust protection against viruses and malware. By Alan...

Even the world’s most popular games thrive in Azure

Azure and Azure Storage can handle multiple data types, like the hugely popular Rainbow Six Siege from Ubisoft. Thanks to Azure, Ubisoft has the elastic scalability to deliver play to 3-million players a day engaged in hundreds of thousands of concurrent games....