en.Wedoany.com Reported - South African enterprises are accelerating their migration to the cloud, driven by a sharp increase in local IT hardware prices and significantly extended delivery lead times. Casper van der Walt, Chief Cloud Officer at CipherWave, revealed that hardware procurement costs have now risen to two to three times what they were a year ago, while delivery lead times have stretched from the previous 8 to 12 weeks to three to six months. Against the backdrop of a global component shortage, growing demand makes it difficult for enterprises to deploy private clouds on their own. High costs and delivery delays are constraining enterprise growth and innovation, prompting businesses to turn to cloud infrastructure options.
CipherWave helps customers choose private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud solutions and deploy them quickly. Van der Walt stated that migrating to CipherWave's cloud infrastructure is not merely a replacement but an upgrade—customers benefit from a robust connectivity backbone and gain access to additional cloud products such as backup and disaster recovery, achieving scalability, multi-layered resilience, and security protection.
CipherWave assists customers in designing cloud models that best fit their business needs and budgets. Based on governance, compliance, and cost requirements, customers can run all or part of their systems in a private cloud while placing remaining workloads in a public cloud; they can also integrate public hyperscale cloud services from Microsoft, AWS, Google, or Huawei to form a multi-cloud architecture; or adopt a hybrid cloud model, running both private and public cloud workloads within a data center. Even if customers wish to retain some on-premises hardware, CipherWave can help plan, secure, and achieve best-practice connectivity, balancing efficiency with cost savings.
Partnering with CipherWave reduces customer costs and complexity. Customers gain access to CipherWave's extensive skills and infrastructure, along with scalability, enhanced security, and business resilience, while utilizing its backup, disaster recovery, SD-WAN, and security products. In cloud migration, CipherWave has 15 years of experience in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and has built a comprehensive set of tools and expertise to ensure secure and seamless migration.
Van der Walt emphasized that protecting data and infrastructure is a non-negotiable principle in business. Data is stored immutably and retained offsite for five years to meet compliance requirements; an additional isolated data protection plan is provided, including another set of readily available immutable backups to satisfy virtually any audit requirement. For customers unsure about how to replace hardware, choose a cloud model, or select a hypervisor, CipherWave runs mainstream technology stacks and has experience supporting various technology stacks, offering consulting services.
