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Where Your Workloads Actually Live

Which best describes where your organisation's core business workloads are hosted today?

Primarily on-premises or private data centre

Primarily public cloud

Hybrid - a deliberate split between cloud and on-premises

Multi-cloud (two or more public cloud providers)

Colocation facility

Still consolidating or in transition

Cloud Strategy: Intent vs Reality

How would you describe the gap between your organisation's stated cloud strategy and where you actually are today?

We are on track and strategy matches reality

We are one to two years behind our original plan

We have a strategy but execution has stalled

We are ahead of plan

We do not have a formal cloud strategy

The Workload Migration Pipeline

Which types of workloads is your organisation actively planning to move to or optimise in the cloud over the next 18 months?

Core business applications such as ERP and CRM

Data and analytics platforms

AI and ML workloads

Development and testing environments

Disaster recovery and backup

Customer-facing applications

Legacy systems modernisation

None - we are focused on optimising existing cloud workloads

The Hyperscaler Question

Which cloud platforms does your organisation currently use, or is actively evaluating for future workloads?

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Huawei Cloud

Local or regional providers such as Liquid Intelligent Technologies or Hetzner

We are currently evaluating options

We use a single provider and have no plans to change

The Cost Visibility Problem

How effectively does your organisation track, allocate, and optimise its cloud spend?

We have a mature FinOps practice with dedicated resources and tooling

We track spend but struggle to optimise or allocate costs accurately

We rely primarily on provider billing dashboards

We have limited visibility into cloud costs

Cloud costs are managed by a third party on our behalf

What Is Actually Breaking

Which of the following cloud challenges is causing the most friction in your organisation right now?

Runaway or unpredictable cloud costs

Security gaps or compliance exposure

Integrating cloud with legacy systems

Lack of internal cloud skills

Governance and policy enforcement

Vendor lock-in

Managing complexity across multiple environments

Getting business buy-in for cloud investment

Security Posture in a Shared-Responsibility World

How confident is your organisation that it fully understands and owns its side of the cloud shared-responsibility model?

1 - Not confident - Significant gaps

5 - Fully confident - Defined, Tested, and Audited

The Sovereignty and Compliance Pressure Test

How is your organisation responding to growing data sovereignty requirements and local compliance obligations such as POPIA, FSCA, and sector-specific regulations?

We have reviewed and updated our architecture specifically for compliance

We are in the process of doing this

We are aware of the requirements but have not yet acted

We believe our current setup is compliant but have not formally verified this

This is not currently a priority for our organisation

How Your Cloud Is Actually Managed

Who is primarily responsible for managing and operating your organisation's cloud environment day-to-day?

An in-house cloud or infrastructure team

A managed services provider

A mix of in-house and external support

The cloud provider's own support services

Individual business units manage their own environments

It varies - with no consistent model

The AI Readiness Gap

How ready is your current cloud infrastructure to support AI and machine learning workloads at scale?

Ready now - we are already running AI workloads in production

Partially ready - we have proofs of concept or pilots running

We are planning for this but have not started

Our infrastructure would need significant work to support AI workloads

We have not assessed this yet

The 2027 Investment Agenda

What are your organisation's top two cloud and infrastructure investment priorities heading into 2027?

AI and ML infrastructure

Security and compliance

Cost optimisation and FinOps

Application modernisation and legacy migration

Data platform and analytics

Disaster recovery and resilience

Cloud governance and architecture

Skills development and training

Sustainability and green cloud

Predicting 2028

In your view, what single development will most fundamentally change how South African organisations use cloud infrastructure by 2028?

AI will reshape workload architecture and cloud economics

Sovereignty laws and data residency requirements will redraw provider choice

FinOps will become a board-level discipline rather than an IT function

The skills shortage will force most organisations to outsource cloud operations entirely

Edge and distributed cloud will dissolve the concept of the data centre

Regulatory pressure will make compliance the primary driver of cloud architecture decisions

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