Sub-Saharan African firms fall years behind in cloud, emerging tech adoption, say RedHatEMEA and IDC. CloudComputing EmergingTech RedHat
Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa are two years behind their global counterparts in their public and private cloud journey, and up to five years behind in the deployment of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.
While this helped them accelerate the shift to remote working technologies, it resulted in the majority of firms falling years behind global counterparts in their cloud migration endeavours, as well as meeting their vision in the adoption of emerging technologies. “Cloud migration as a specific function scores low in organisations’ investment priorities, and company leaders tell us it’s difficult for them to hire for specific cloud-related roles,” noted Scheepers.When asked which areas they are likely to invest in to address their business and ICT challenges in 2022, the minority of respondents said cloud migration. On the other hand, 55% said data analytics; 43% said security technologies and skills; while 45% prioritised application management.
“Over the next two years, we expect a 34% decrease in the number of organisations running their applications on-premises in favour of public cloud.” Also speaking at the event, Dion Harvey, regional general manager at Red Hat in Sub-Saharan Africa, pointed out that over the next few years, SSA organisations are expected to accelerate their cloud migration initiatives – a move that will have a significant effect on enterprise application spend.
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