Cloud computing is the answer to so many questions, especially in South Africa where we risk load shedding daily, facing skyrocketing hardware costs and finding the right skills to support your infrastructure.I am a Datacenter Specialist with a core focus on leading my customers on the journey to adopt cloud in their environments. Fast paced or slow, the time is ripe to start thinking about cloud services today.I’m a knowledgeable person with more than 15 years experience in the IT infrastructure realm and aim to stay up-to-date with new technologies. Cloud services offered by Microsoft fits so many requirements. Office 365 negates the need to have any on premise Exchange-, Lync-, Yammer-, SharePoint servers and OneDrive for Business. Office 365 provides the benefit of Office ProPlus, a subscription service, and one never has to worry about true-up costs associated with Microsoft Office again. By having planned, deployed and managed the complete System Center suite of products, I am in the privileged position to help any datacenter to transform. Combining experience and the various toolsets, transformation is achieved through first building Private Clouds, then mixing Hybrid Cloud and ultimately using a Public/Partner cloud. During this time, the need to have on-site servers and other hardware is reduced, and becomes someone else's problem.In my years of service in IT, I have helped many customers with the planning, deployment and managing of their infrastructure. Planning, deployment and consumption of Office 365 and Windows Azure services is a new passion that I want to share with everyone. Don't be left trailing industry practices, I can help with the transformation.