The datacentre is the foundation upon which enterprises are built.

Company executives have a lot of big decisions to make when it comes to their datacentres. There is compelling argument to do away with it all together and transfer all the data into some outsourced facility. But there are also reasons to keep the datacentre on-premise. This roundtable dives into the reasons for and against these moves.

South African enterprises are holding back from heading to the cloud or outsourcing their data centres because they're trying to extract return on their investments in existing infrastructure.

Energy-efficient hardware, converged infrastructure and better management tools are just some of the approaches South African data centres are using to reduce operational costs.

South African enterprises may reap indirect benefit from the Open Compute Project - eventually.