Towards connected Clouds

Grazed from Gadget. Author: Editorial Staff.

In South Africa cloud computing is not a new phenomenon, and small startups and large enterprises alike are seeing the cost savings and resource optimization that comes from outsourced IT services. However, concerns remain due to concerns around where data is stored and how it is secured.

Today, the cloud landscape is rapidly changing. In South Africa, businesses understand the benefits of cloud solutions and are willing to adopt this new approach, but adoption rates are still slow. A survey conducted by Symantec revealed that eighty-three percent of respondents in South African are confident that moving to the cloud will have either little impact on or will actually improve their security. However, the same survey revealed that despite a great deal of consideration, many organizations are not ready to adopt cloud due to lack of experience among IT staff. The survey revealed that only 25 percent of IT teams have cloud experience and only the minority (between eight and fifteen percent) rated their staff as extremely prepared for the transition to cloud…

“There is a huge potential for cloud computing for organizations of all sizes in South Africa, particularly with the increasingly challenging threat landscape, the shortage of IT skills and the lack of understanding of cloud technologies”, said Mark Smissen, Business Development Manager for Symantec.cloud in Africa. “Symantec.cloud offers hosted IT services to help ease IT and security concerns and set customers minds at ease knowing their IT is being handled by reputable experts and being hosted out of a data center based in South Africa”…

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