by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
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....
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
With the World Bank forecasting economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa at 3.6% for 2019-20, some of the world’s most fast-growing economies are in Africa. By Pieter Bensch, executive vice-president at Sage Africa & Middle East Rapid urbanisaiton, business friendly...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
In five years, the world will have more than 40-billion devices. Locally, IoT specialist, Eseye, says that South African CIOs are recognising IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (Machine to Machine) technologies as strategic imperatives, but the journey is still in its...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Modern shoppers have retained a primal trait – hunting and the hunting season gathers pace every year on Black Friday easing towards Christmas. In an indoorsy environment of the safe suburbs, shoppers follow the scent of a sale and hunt for deals and discounts. Some...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Reckitt Benckiser (RB) makes a wide range of popular consumer health, hygiene, and home products. To empower its staff to make data-based decisions, RB replaced its existing business intelligence (BI) solution with Microsoft Power BI and Azure. RB is a global consumer...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 11, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Azure Blob Storage is massively scalable object storage designed specifically for unstructured data. With scalable, cost-effective cloud storage, you pay only for what you use, and save money compared with on-premises storage options. In addition, organisations can...
