COUNTRY
COUNTRY
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KENYA
“
OUR
INFRASTRUCTURE HAD
COME TO ITS END OF
LIFE, WHICH WAS A HUGE
CHALLENGE FOR THE
BUSINESS, BUT AT THE
SAME TIME PROVIDED
US WITH A UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITY.
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Because the organisation deals with sensitive financial data, its
environment was made up of a host of ringfenced servers that would
look after independent services.
Downtime was not just a business challenge but was severely
impeding customer service – a simple Internet disruption or
unplanned reboot would stop all access to data. Power issues, a
common place problem in Africa, would impede the air conditioners
in the environment and using generators to keep the lights and
power on was costly.
After extensive investigations, the decision was reached that the
cloud would be the most cost-effective solution for the business.
The company shortlisted 10 cloud providers and finally decided
that specialist cloud services company Node Africa would be the
best fit for the company due to its infrastructure being built on the
VMware platform.
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