A smarter approach to cloud for South African businesses

So if we could come back to you, Jonathan, are the trends that we're seeing locally reflected internationally or is South Africa still a little behind on the cloud curve?

Good question.

You'll be surprised how advanced South Africa actually is.

I've heard it from multiple international companies, organizations, hyperscalers and providers that we have a unique situation here is that we have to deliver all these public services and sometimes infrastructure is there.

We're fraught with our own little issues that we have to deal with and that drives innovation.

And some of the most innovative apps are coming out of Africa, coming out of South Africa, being funded internationally and really driving that kind of GDP growth within the region for delivery of solutions.

Specifically around healthcare, right? How do we think about getting medicine to individuals in remote regions? We've got that specific situation right now, right? In South Africa.

So, These types of solutions have been driven by startups about how they can go and change the world for their small community.

And those technologies, you will be surprised, are being replicated internationally and they're using it there.

So I think it's a hand-in-hand process.

Obviously, from the top down, the internationals are driving the technology.

Right.

We are adopting that technologies locally and at a lower scale, we're able to build out faster, more reactive solutions at a much cheaper rate down here because of the employment ability that we have down here with more people being able to engineer and develop actually.

All right.

Joel, if I could bring it back to you, Jonathan mentioned something about startups and new ideas and new things coming to market.

And not every organization has the privilege of being a greenfield project.

Lots of organizations are actually trying to take what they've been implementing over time and adapting it to the cloud.