AI infrastructure boom shouldn’t be funded through customer price hikes

Your multi-cloud strategy is a lie. It’s actually a Frankenstack

When cloud first hit mainstream business use, companies were told to move fast. Then they were told to move everything. Now, many organisations are discovering what they actually built, and it’s not a modern platform, or a streamlined architecture, and it certainly...
The hidden cost of cloud complexity (and what to do about it)

The hidden cost of cloud complexity (and what to do about it)

Cloud adoption in South Africa is accelerating. Budgets are being committed, environments are being built, and the channel is busier than it has been in years. Othelo Vieira, technical product manager lead at Cloud On Demand That is genuinely good news. But there is a...

Cloud adoption is accelerating – but so are hidden security risks

As organisations continue to move critical systems and data into the cloud at pace, many are discovering that migration alone does not reduce risk – it simply changes where that risk lives. According to Dariel, the real challenge lies in managing the complexity,...
AI infrastructure boom shouldn’t be funded through customer price hikes

The cloud myth: More platforms do not mean more innovation

For the past decade, technology solution providers sold a seductive story: Move everything to the cloud, add more platforms and more services, and watch costs fall while innovation explodes. By Richard Vester, chief executive: cloud at iOCO Now, the hangover has...
Why cloud efficiency drives business growth

Why cloud efficiency drives business growth

We have done the cloud industry a disservice, writes Oliver Niemandt, GM and head of sales at Cloud On Demand. Somewhere along the way, the conversation about cloud value got replaced by a conversation about cloud cost. I am not sure exactly when it happened, but I...