Large South African enterprises are modernising fast, but cloud adoption does not remove infrastructure complexity overnight.
For many organisations, cloud and legacy environments continue to run in parallel. This makes it harder to understand total cost of ownership, track migration impact and create accountability across departments.
This was the challenge facing a global petrochem enterprise operating a complex Microsoft Azure environment with an average monthly cloud spend of $900K.
As the organisation expanded its cloud environment, it needed clearer visibility, stronger governance and better cost accountability across both cloud and on-premise infrastructure. Key challenges included limited visibility, inconsistent tagging, no chargeback/showback capability, limited anomaly detection and no clear cloud vs legacy TCO comparison.