Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and\nresearch report<\/a> found\nthat 84% of respondents in South Africa (compared to 73% globally and 71%\nacross EMEA) are either moving public apps back to on-premise environments or\nplanning to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe local and\nglobal results of the report speak directly to what we are seeing among customers\nwithin the country,\u201d said Paul Ruinaard, Regional Sales Director at Nutanix\nSub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile the\ncloud has not moved off the business agenda completely, SA customers are\nlooking at how they can better modernise their on-premise data centres. In some\ninstances, they are scaling back their use of public, and hybrid clouds. This\nis supported by a stated 9% decrease in public cloud usage by local respondents\nand the staggering amount who are making the move back on to their private IT\ninfrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of the\nrepatriated apps are headed for traditional data centres rather than private\nclouds. In a reversal of its 2018 Enterprise Cloud Index profile, the country\nupped its reported data centre penetration by 48% to 72% last year, catapulting\nit into the highest global data centre usage bracket. By contrast, only 25% of\nlocal respondents reported using private cloud, the lowest across all countries\nexcept Taiwan (21%) and Hong Kong (23%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe fact that\nlocal customers are eyeing the cloud with more caution is in part due to how\nthe costs of scaling workloads to the cloud caught many of them unaware,\u201d added\nRuinaard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSecurity is\nalso a concern, as is performance, and lastly application delivery. The data by\nno means states that companies are halting their cloud journey, but instead\nthey are approaching it more maturely and cautiously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is\nindicative of how cost plays a far more important role in SA cloud\ndecision-making than anywhere else in the world. Most local respondents (76%)\nsaid that cost advantages were the number one factor fuelling their\ndecision-making as compared to 53% of global and EMEA countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is no\nwonder that cost is a major factor when considering that nearly 53% of SA\ncompanies reported being over budget with their public cloud spending in 2019,\na 12- percentage point increase over the previous year,\u201d said Ruinaard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen compared\nto the 35% global average, managing cloud cost must therefore become an\norganisational priority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even though the\nmove away from the public cloud is evident, there remains a significant\ndisconnect between what local businesses deem the ideal IT infrastructure and\nwhat they are deploying today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SA IT\nprofessionals generally agree with their worldwide peers that hybrid cloud\nrepresents the ideal and most secure IT operating model. Still, respondents\nhere reported the third lowest penetration of hybrid clouds today (6%) after\nJapan (3%) and Switzerland (4%). Furthermore, SA\u2019s hybrid usage dropped by nine\npoints in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPerhaps because of this, stated plans by local respondents\nalign with what is happening globally, resulting in hybrid deployments that\nwill as much as quadruple in three to five years, while private cloud usage\nwill decline,\u201d said Ruinaard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSA companies\nare going through an adjustment period as their experience with the public\ncloud matures. The cloud is a much more nuanced place than simply sticking with\na public model. But learnings such as these could only have happened with time.\nHaving said that, local businesses no longer have an excuse to ignore the\nhybrid approach. It is happening now and they must adjust to remain relevant in\na digitally-connected world market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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