Teraco is Africa’s most interconnected data centre hub, acting as an open-access growth and innovation marketplace. “When an organisation embarks on their move to the cloud, deploying through an open-access platform such as Teraco enables them to do it in the simplest and most affordable way,” Hnizdo explains.

The most significant factors for most organisations moving to the cloud are cost and flexibility. Organisations need to assess the cost structure of cloud applications and decide which workstreams will be cost-effective to move and which can be kept on-premise. This is referred to as a Hybrid-Cloud deployment. The data centre provider must become an enablement platform. Organisations need to assess the ecosystem that the data centre provider can offer.