“ When we started to crunch the numbers , it seemed like we could reduce our costs quite drastically . That was very appealing to us ”
ROBERT HENEKE HEAD OF CLOUD , SAP TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT , PICK N PAY
“ We chose AWS at that point in time , so we had some sort of a relationship with them .
“ We went to the cloud for the whole of our environment because we used to have an on-premise data centre with a hardware supplier that would stock it with infrastructure such as servers and storage . They would always try to be one step ahead of the requirement curve so , when we required a machine , we would only pay for what we used .
“ The problem was , that contract was nearing its end and we had to make a decision : whether we were going to extend the contract and be tied down for another seven years , or whether we would go for something else .
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