Abdul Moosa, CTO at CoCre8 (formerly Fujitsu South Africa), says: “Companies in the public and private sectors have bought into the value proposition of cloud, and cloud-first is definitely a long-term strategy. However, as the Covid-19 lockdowns have demonstrated, digital transformation is not something to be achieved in the future – it has to happen now.”

For CIOs and IT managers, Moosa continues, there are so many factors to consider, among them cost and access to skills, as well as the need to sweat existing on-premise assets.