Cloud services in South African companies – Here are the latest stats
MyBroadband recently conducted its 2019 Cloud Survey, which shed light on the South African cloud market and the adoption of cloud services in the business market.
The survey was completed by 386 IT decision makers in small, medium, and large businesses across South Africa.
According to the survey results, 77% of South African businesses are currently using cloud services in their IT department.
The most popular cloud services used by local companies are cloud backup solutions and software-as-a-service.
Some of the interesting findings from the 2019 Cloud Survey include:
- 31% of companies use cloud telecoms services.
- 71% of companies back their data up in the cloud.
- Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are the most popular cloud platforms.
2019 Cloud Conference
These findings and many other topics related to cloud computing and hosting will be discussed at the 2019 Cloud Conference.
You can register for the conference at a big discount using the voucher code below.
- Website: 2019 Cloud Conference and Expo
- Promotional Code: MyBroadbandCloud2019
Please note that a limited number of tickets will be available using this discount code.
Results summary
The table below provides an overview of the findings of the 2019 Cloud Survey.
| 2019 Cloud Survey Results | |
| Is your company using any cloud services? | |
| Answer | Percentage |
| Yes | 77.03% |
| No | 22.97% |
| Which cloud services are you using? | |
| Answer | Percentage |
| Backup as a service | 53.24% |
| Software as a service | 42.16% |
| Infrastructure as a service | 26.76% |
| Platform as a service | 26.22% |
| Recovery as a service | 20.54% |
| Other | 0.81% |
| Is your company using any cloud telecoms service, like a cloud PBX? | |
| Answer | Percentage |
| Yes | 31.32% |
| No | 68.68% |
| Are you backing up your company’s data in the cloud? | |
| Answer | Percentage |
| Yes | 70.92% |
| No | 29.08% |
| Which cloud providers are you using? | |
| Answer | Percentage |
| Google Cloud | 39.19% |
| Microsoft Azure | 32.16% |
| AWS | 12.97% |
| Other | 12.43% |
| VMWare Cloud | 5.41% |
| IBM Cloud | 3.51% |
| Oracle Cloud | 2.70% |
| What does your organisation see as the biggest benefits of cloud services? | |
| Answer | Percentage |
| Data backup | 68.11% |
| Disaster recovery | 60.00% |
| Cost savings | 53.51% |
| Flexibility and scalability | 52.16% |
| Security | 50.81% |
| Data mobility | 44.86% |
| Operational efficiency | 44.59% |
| Automatic software updates | 23.51% |
| Competitive edge | 20.27% |
| Other | 2.16% |
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