
New partnership enables SMEs to effortlessly move to the cloud
By Staff Writer 27 November 2020To help SMMEs tackle their transition to the cloud amid the need for remote working, the consulting division of Vox has partnered with Microsoft, to offer Microsoft Azure Kickstart. FULL STORY >

Microsoft, Mastercard collaborate to accelerate innovation
By Staff Writer 31 July 2020Microsoft and Mastercard have announced a new collaboration, aimed at building pathways to financial security and provide tools for sustainable growth FULL STORY >

Microsoft Build 2020 Part 2: Building strategies for a tumultuous present and brighter future
By Ryan Noik 26 May 2020Microsoft's Build 2020 conference unpacked the benefits of Developer Velocity, how businesses can better achieve it, and why analytics is so important now to business agility. FULL STORY >

MultiChoice details how it is unfolding the future of entertainment with Microsoft
By Staff Writer 11 March 2020MultiChoice unpacks how, with Microsoft, it is exploring innovative ways of delivering content to its subscribers using artificial intelligence and big data analytics. FULL STORY >
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Industry Insight - Microsoft Azure one year on
By Industry Contributor 24 February 2020Ryan Jamieson, Solutions and Innovation Officer at Altron Karabina, unpacks the impact of the Microsoft Azure data centre rollout one year on. FULL STORY >

Industry Insight - Welcome to the year of the Multi-DC
By Industry Contributor 3 February 2020Tony Bartlett, Director: Data Centre Compute at Dell Technologies South Africa, explains why the multi-datacentre's time has come. FULL STORY >

Microsoft South Africa kicks Python support for Azure Functions into gear
By Staff Writer 10 October 2019Microsoft South Africa has announced that Python support for Azure Functions is now available locally and ready for production workloads. FULL STORY >

Nedbank and Microsoft announce partnership
By Staff Writer 2 September 2019Microsoft and Nedbank have announced that the financial services provider has partnered with the tech giant to migrate components of its IT infrastructure to the cloud, making Nedbank the first bank in the country to run operations of this scale in the... FULL STORY >

Interview - The impact of Microsoft’s data centres on businesses and the country
By Ryan Noik 7 March 2019In the wake of yesterday’s announcement about Microsoft’s new data centers going live, we sat down with the MD of Microsoft South Africa, Lillian Barnard, and Yousef Khalidi, corporate vice president of Azure... FULL STORY >

Microsoft opens new data centres, details investment programme
By Ryan Noik 6 March 2019It has been a while coming, but Microsoft’s new enterprise grade Azure Cloud regions in Johannesburg and Cape Town were officially announced today at their headquarters in Bryanston along with the details of an investment... FULL STORY >

Organic growth of cloud expected to increase
By Staff Writer 17 July 2018Andrew Cruise, managing director, Routed, a vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider, says that there is still a lot for local businesses to learn about cloud before they see the true benefits. FULL STORY >

Citrix partners with Microsoft to simplify branch office network deployments
By Press Release 16 July 2018Citrix has partnered with Microsoft to provide Citrix SD-WAN solution as the on-ramp to Azure, for the new Azure Virtual WAN service, announced by Microsoft today. FULL STORY >

Microsoft Insider Dev tour highlights innovation
By Ryan Noik 25 June 2018Microsoft’s first Insider Dev Tour in Johannesburg saw a drone and monkey chasing a banana around the stage. Then things really got interesting. FULL STORY >

Microsoft Tech Summit Part 5: The future is here
By Ryan Noik 22 February 2018In the continuation of the exploration of Azure, the conversation turned to the third and fourth pillars of the company’s approach to the cloud, that of artificial intelligence (AI) and trust. FULL STORY >

Microsoft Tech Summit Part 1: Are you ready for a transformation?
By Ryan Noik 15 February 2018Microsoft’s Tech Summit, which took place in Cape Town this week, turned out to be a wellspring of insight and inspiration. FULL STORY >
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