South Africa’s cloud adoption lagging rest of the world, report shows

Networking specialist firm F5 Networks ‘State of App Delivery 2017’ report indicates that 41% of companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will continue to invest in private cloud technologies and services this year, although South Africa’s cloud adoption is lagging significantly behind this worldwide figure, says F5 Networks Africa senior systems engineer Martin Walshaw. A total of 48% of these companies state that private cloud platforms will have the greatest strategic importance for their organisations over the next two to five years, and that 76% of their applications (apps) will be hosted in cloud systems.