Africa’s emergence as a growth area is attracting interest from businesses all around the globe. Pete Frielinghaus from ContinuitySA tackles its top risks. FULL STORY >

Peter Greaves, expertise leader for Data and ICT facilities at Aurecon, provides insight on how enterprises can better manage data centres within a technologically relevant African context. FULL STORY >

While businesses are largely under pressure to do more with less, there’s also good news, namely that Agile IT can afford near immediate cost savings. We talked with Trebb Ryan from Dimension Data to find out more. FULL STORY >

Our comic book guru Moray Rhoda believes it would have been too easy to include Saga or The Walking Dead on this list or to sing the praises of Deadly Class again. Instead he picked some books that truly surprised him with their level of art and storytelling. FULL STORY >

NetApp's Insight 2014 conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada not only offered up some eye-opening perspectives on IT, but its ambitious announcements addressed a key concern with hybrid cloud adoption. FULL STORY >

Newly released, Sage's 2014 Business Index characterises the local SME outlook as optimistic amid a state of economic uncertainty with South Africa. FULL STORY >

The rAge gaming expo is undoubtedly an assault on the senses, serving up the biggest gaming titles, latest developments and merchandise aplenty. With untold riches to explore within the Coca Cola Dome's great hall, we run down the most exciting sights and sounds. ... FULL STORY >

With rAge stealing much of the focus this week, there's still plenty gaming nuggets to get excited about; including Bandai Namco's new Star Wars Battle Pod; Lara Croft Temple of Osiris details and Indie gaming bundle from Humble Bundle. FULL STORY >

In this week’s GNR - Dragon Age: Inquisition details character customisation, a new Assassin’s Creed game is revealed and Bloodborne brings a new trailer. FULL STORY >

Movie fundi Spling runs down the latest movie releases, set to hit South African cinemas in October. FULL STORY >

In a fast-changing environment with new applications daily and a surge of data to manage, CIOs are looking to software defined networking to give them a competitive advantage, says Networks Unlimited FULL STORY >

A change in approach appears to be predominant theme in IT at present, and the familiar concept of backups is similarly calling for a different perspective. Warren Olivier, the regional manager of Veeam South Africa explains. FULL STORY >

IT technology analysts, Gartner, have weighed in on data lakes, cautioning users against being swallowed up by hype. FULL STORY >

TechSmart Business recently attended a presentation by Sage VIP’s risk and fraud division manager, Yolande Schoültz, who presented her findings on the key threats facing the payroll environment for both SMEs and large corporates. FULL STORY >

Marrying the analyses of service, cost, revenue, and now, customer experience FULL STORY >