Roundtables

It's a trap

It’s taken a while, but with the maturing South African ICT market, it won’t be long before all the hyperscale cloud providers will be lighting up their local datacentres. Many South African companies have some kind of cloud strategy in place. What’s less clear is the level of adoption. Where are you on your cloud journey?

30 April 2019

It all boils down to intention. What are you looking for in the move to cloud? Are you trying to reduce costs, or are you trying to become more flexible?

Maria Pienaar, CIO for operations, Blue Label Ventures, says it comes down to the cost argument, or, put another way, tin versus cloud. She also likes the flexibility that cloud brings, and says she’d rather focus her IT team on areas where they can deliver greater value to the business.

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