Jan Hnizdo CEO at Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd.

The adoption of cloud services in South Africa continues to accelerate unabated, with more financial services and enterprises adopting hybrid cloud strategies. This includes deciding which workstreams will be most cost-effective to move to the cloud and which to continue to operate as a highly available private cloud.

As these organisations weigh up their cloud strategy options, a critical component is their choice of datacentre provider to ensure they maintain their competitive advantage. The datacentre provider should be seen as an enablement platform offering reliability, security, ecosystem depth, carrier neutrality, diverse network availability, flexibility, and scalability.