Microsoft South Africa

South African organisations have spent the better part of a decade migrating workloads to the cloud. The strategy decks are written. The hyperscaler contracts are signed. The budgets have been approved, sometimes more than once. But what is actually happening inside the server rooms, the FinOps spreadsheets and the security teams? That is the question the TechCentral Cloud Reckoning Survey, sponsored by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft, is built to answer.

Threat actors don’t hack in anymore – they log in. That, in a sentence, is the problem South African IT leaders are still not taking seriously enough. That was the blunt assessment running through Defend Your Cloud, Fortify Your Future – a webinar hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa last week, bringing together three practitioners who work in the space every day.

In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every facet of our lives, Kenya’s public sector stands at a critical juncture. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has advanced and proliferated in recent years, the Kenyan government has grappled with harnessing these benefits while balancing citizen needs and fiscal constraints.