Cloud computing is one of the biggest shifts in how businesses run technology — but most of what is written about it assumes a context that does not match ours. Unlimited bandwidth, a data centre down the road, billing in your own currency. For a business in Gaborone, Francistown, Maun or anywhere else on the continent, the opportunity is real but the trade-offs are different.
This pillar brings together everything we know about moving to and running in the cloud from a Botswana and African standpoint: what it actually costs once you account for the Pula–dollar exchange rate, how to handle connectivity as a hard dependency, where your data physically lives and why that matters, how to keep it secure, and how to migrate without disrupting the operations you depend on.
Our bias throughout is practical, not fashionable. We move clients to the cloud when it lowers their cost, their risk or their downtime — and we say so plainly when on-premise or a hybrid setup is the better fit. Start with the guides below, and if you would like advice on your specific situation, a cloud assessment is always free.