“Covid-19 had a massive impact on cloud,” says Phil Bradley, NetApp Business Manager at CoCre8 Technology Solutions, “especially in South Africa, where remote working was traditionally discouraged, but is now being enforced.” This has had a knock-on effect on the type of servers, storage and networking organisations are investing in.

“The move to remote working has led to organisations spending less on their own infrastructure and more on cloud services, be it Microsoft services or the development of new applications for remote work integration on other public cloud platforms,” Bradley says.