Healthy IT- How Vital Health Foods makes use of IT

How do we deliver a healthy IT service experience at Vital Health Foods?
The problem
Since 2005 Space Age has been providing a fulltime onsite resource to Vital Health Foods (Vital) in order to fulfil their IT support demand. As Vital has over 160 computer users it made sense to have a fulltime onsite IT resource. The [...]

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Would your IT infrastructure be given a clean bill of health?

If you were to compare the health of an IT environment to that of an athlete, you would find some fundamental similarities. Just as the overall health of an athlete’s body would impact his success, so too will the ‘health’ of your IT directly affect the performance benefits to your business.
So what is Healthy IT?
Ideally [...]

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How Billabong ‘surfer giant’ makes use of IT

How Billabong ‘surfer giant’ makes use of IT

With Christmas around the corner we thought it may be interesting to find out how a company in the retail industry would benefit from technology.  Heston Paules one of our solution consultants discusses how technology can benefit a company such as Billabong South Africa.
The problem:
Billabong South Africa was faced with an IT platform that was [...]

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SATlings 2011

SATlings 2011

Another year has come and gone. The SATlings have completed their exams and now eagerly await their school reports. They have worked very hard this year and each group was spoilt with an outing to celebrate the end of another successful year on the SATlings project.

We would also like to officially welcome our new CSI partners [...]

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Online Backup versus Onsite Backup

It’s not about if you lose data, it’s about when you lose critical data.
Whether it’s through hardware or software failure, user error, theft, the chances are that somewhere down the line critical data will be lost in some way, and therefore, it is imperative that a strategy is implemented for the backing up of important [...]

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IT in the Poultry Industry

Following our previous article on how a company in the wine industry makes use of technology, we thought it may be interesting to find out how a company in the poultry industry would benefit from technology. This time we showcase Elgin Free Range Chickens (Pty) Ltd.
Once again, I have decided to keep this article short [...]

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Space Age Rugby World Cup Supporter Challenge 2011

Space Age Rugby World Cup Supporter Challenge 2011

“Tamatie sous, tamatie sous, BOOOOEREWORS!” could be heard bellowing from our kitchen as the winning team presented the South African version of the haka. The team’s offices were decorated with every kind of green and gold rugby paraphernalia you could imagine and there was a definite patriotic vibe pacing through our offices.
It was mostly fun [...]

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Ensuring your CSI contribution has long term effects

Ensuring your CSI contribution has long term effects

If you have yet to realise the long term effect your CSI contribution can make in the lives of deserving children in South Africa, please continue reading further:
As a corporate in South Africa with a keen sense of responsibility towards social development in our community, we recognised that our CSI contribution can be an incredible [...]

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Technologies which are crucial for the Wine Industry

Technologies which are crucial for the Wine Industry

With the Franschhoek Uncorked Festival happening this weekend, we thought it may be interesting to our readers to find out a little more about how a company in the wine industry (such as Graham Beck) makes use of technology, what different Line of Business applications are out there, as well as new technologies which may [...]

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Space Age vindicated for supporting Microsoft’s Hyper-V

I was asked to explain why Space Age Technologies uses virtualisation and the Microsoft implementation of that in the form of Hyper-V recently and I honestly was initially stumped as to how I should reply. Virtualised servers are now so much a part of how I look at server infrastructure that I hardly consider any [...]

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