LSD OPEN

We are LSD Open, a revolutionary technology partner with a focus on delivering cutting edge solutions that fast-track digital innovation.

We deliver managed Platform, Data and Cloud Services and software licenses. South Africa | Mauritius | UAE LSD OPEN was founded in 2001 and wants to inspire the world by embracing OPEN philosophy and technology, empowering people to be their authentic best selves, all while having fun. Specializing in containers and cloud native, the company aims to digitally accelerate clients through a framework called the LSDTrip. To learn more about the LSDtrip, visit us at www.lsdopen.io

02/06/2026

Huge congratulations to Lehlohonono Malomane for passing the exam and earning the HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate certification!

29/04/2026

L*D Open had the privilege of being a Red sponsor of Red Hat Innovate Together in Cape Town.

The event was hosted at the Hazendal wine estate, and provided an engaging look at how open-source innovation is solving the biggest hurdles in , , and IT today.

L*D Open Chief Technology Officer Julian Gericke took to the keynote stage to present 'AI Diffusion: Building the Enterprise', taking a closer look at the value of hybrid AI infrastructure.

Thank you to everyone who came by the L*D Open booth to say hello! Thank you to Samantha Harper, Red Hat SSA team, Tamica Kim de Gee, and The Marketing Hub team for the amazing opportunity to be part of this day.

28/04/2026

Huge congratulations to Mpho Mawela for passing the exam and earning the Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate certification! 🎉

27/04/2026

Welcome to the L*D Open team, Thapelo Mabaso! 💚 🐧

Thapelo joins the sales team as an account executive.

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24/04/2026

Huge congratulations to Bongani Romeo Gaanabo for passing the exam and earning the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation! 🥳

23/04/2026

Huge congratulations to Tapiwanashe Kanda for passing the exam and earning the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional certification! 🎉

16/03/2026

What is your most powerful asset?

About four years ago, L*D Open was a team of just over 30 people, all brilliant at what they did; however, the company had yet to become the unified machine that it is today.

Navigating strategic changes, including a leadership structure overhaul, adopting new technologies, and understanding what it truly means to take care of your people, were just some of the insights that Neil White, L*D Open CEO, encountered while growing the business to 70+ people.

Over the years, the company has evolved from a Linux/open source technology services company that took on the new frontier of cloud native in the 2010s, into an internationally trusted AI systems integrator with the launch of L*D Open Middle East. During this growth, L*D Open's leadership realised that its most important asset was never technology.

➡️ Learn about Neil's experience by reading the full article on L*D Open's maturation: https://zurl.co/Wwala

13/03/2026

Welcome to the team Michael de Sousa! 💚🐧

Michael joins the cloud team as Cloud Business Development Manager and is based in Durban, South Africa.

12/03/2026

For agentic AI to deliver real value, enterprises need hybrid infrastructure balancing cloud with sovereignty. Truly unlocking that value and being successful at harnessing large language models for business, the requirement has evolved from 'AI that chats' into 'AI that acts'.

L*D Open CTO Julian Gericke makes a case for hybrid AI, and explains the impact on the enterprise as a whole, from understanding the unit economics to creating a platform with an agentic AI layer that serves as the foundation for all future AI projects.

➡️ Read the article on TechCentral: https://zurl.co/yVCYm

10/03/2026

"The EBA approach has demonstrated just how capable our people are when supported by the right process, the right partners and the right skills".

Experience-based acceleration (EBA) is breaking the cloud migration deadlock through rapid ex*****on.

In this article, Deon Stroebel, CIO at L*D Open, discusses the EBA methodology and how 'learning by doing' is enabling customer teams to modernise for the cloud faster, reducing the time from months to days.

The article also distinguishes between different kinds of EBA workshops and where they will add the most value to customers experiencing specific pain points and cloud maturity scenarios.

As an example, Deon discusses the recent successful EBA workshop with the Purple Group (the company behind the award-winning EasyEquities platform) and L*D Open, where a legacy application was refactored to a modern architecture in just three days.

Paul Jansen van Vuuren, CTO of the Purple Group Limited , summarised the experience:
- "The EBA approach has demonstrated just how capable our people are when supported by the right process, the right partners and the right skills".
- "The speed at which they delivered secure, high-impact business value was nothing short of extraordinary."
- "AWS and L*D Open played a critical role across every stage, and we're eager to build on this success."

➡️ Learn more about the EBA by reading the article on TechCentral : https://zurl.co/53LUA

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