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Publication Date: 2025-12-11 06:32:00
Kurt Goodall, technical director, Troye. (Image: Troye)
Businesses are losing millions every year by clinging to outdated infrastructure. What many CIOs still treat as ‘stable legacy systems’ have quietly become the single biggest threat to competitiveness.
New research on the Nutanix Cloud Platform reveals the brutal truth: companies that modernise are seeing a 391% return on investment with payback in just seven months, while those that delay continue to bleed efficiency, money and opportunity.
Legacy environments are no longer harmless or merely ‘old’. They are actively slowing down business transformation, creating operational drag and consuming budgets that should be driving innovation. For a market as competitive and cost-pressured as South Africa, this is not a technical concern. It is a strategic liability.
The real cost of staying legacy
Traditional three-tier architectures have served their time, but they now create more problems than value. They are expensive to maintain, complex to manage and painfully slow to scale. Every additional server, storage array or licensing renewal pushes costs higher. Every upgrade window risks downtime. Every manual administrative task steals time from teams who should be focusing on delivering value.
This is precisely why the latest IDC research into Nutanix deployments is so revealing. Organisations that replace legacy infrastructure with a unified platform experience:
- 391% ROI over three years
- A seven-month payback period
- 42%…
