Stop selling me cloud. Start solving my problems

Technology spend needs to move from consumption to accountability, writes Brandon Moodley, chief financial officer at Cloud On Demand. I do not need a utilisation report. Tell me what changed in the business because we spent the money. Too many cloud conversations...

Cloud has grown up. Now businesses need to grow smarter

A short time ago, the main issue in cloud computing was this: How fast could we migrate? By Avinash Gupta, head of centre of excellence at In2IT Technologies In every sector of the business world, moving applications and data into the cloud came to mean digital...
The complexity tax: the cloud cost that survives every budget review

The complexity tax: the cloud cost that survives every budget review

Fragmentation is expensive, writes Oliver Niemandt, GM and head of sales at Cloud On Demand. It is also unowned and unmeasured, which is why it never has to justify itself. For South African organisations heading into next year’s budgets, the cloud conversation is...

The end of cloud-only thinking in SA

For years, “cloud-first” has dominated enterprise technology strategy. But across South Africa, that conversation is beginning to shift. By Dean Wolson, GM: Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo, Southern Africa Today, CIOs are grappling with a more complicated...

Cloud control becomes a resilience issue

South African businesses have become more comfortable with the cloud. Amongst other things, the public cloud has helped organisations access capacity faster, modernise applications, support digital services, and avoid waiting months for infrastructure projects to...