Public cloud: What's your roadmap?
The public cloud market is now at around $180 billion and is expected to grow at about 22% compound annual growth rate. While IT leaders are toying with how they can better utilise public cloud, which offers security, cost savings and ease of use, there appear to be lingering doubts in South Africa. Meanwhile, Microsoft is scheduled to launch its two Azure datacentres later this year.
23 July 2018
Where are you on the journey to the public cloud?
Willem Bekker, technology governance and services manager, Nampak: The theory of the cloud is that it doesn’t matter where your data is. I’ve got subsidiaries in the UK and Africa and latency is a challenge. Latency will play a role with some applications, no matter what you do. When you think about a production ERP system, it doesn’t like latency.
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