Biscay Mulaudzi on building South Africa's own cloud

South African cloud services are gaining importance as businesses focus more closely on data sovereignty, cybersecurity, predictable costs, and local support.

Biscay Mulaudzi, Chief Executive Officer at Gole Cloud and Bottomline IT, explains why he built a locally hosted cloud platform designed for South African businesses, SMMEs, and individual consumers.

Mulaudzi discusses how Gole Cloud keeps customer data within South African data centres while offering predictable rand-based pricing and locally supported services. He also explains why smaller businesses need access to secure cloud infrastructure without the large capital investment required to build and maintain their own environments.

Cybersecurity is another major focus. Mulaudzi outlines Gole Cloud's 24/7 security monitoring, information security controls, backup services, and ransomware recovery approach, while stressing the importance of protecting customer data and complying with POPIA.

The conversation also explores Gole Cloud's AI ambitions, including automated cloud migrations and plans to expand local AI infrastructure.

0:00 Intro

3:07 Building a South African cloud platform

7:00 Cloud services for SMMEs

9:01 What makes Gole Cloud different

12:19 Why small businesses need the cloud

16:21 Protecting customer data

20:47 Gole Cloud's AI plans