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THIS INNOVATIVE SOLUTION
SUCCESSFULLY MEETS OUR OBJECTIVE OF
ACCELERATING GROWTH, CONTINUALLY
INNOVATING AND DELIVERING SERVICES
THAT CATER TO THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING
DIGITAL ECONOMY.
with this new integrated IT environment
we aim to become the engine of digital
transformation for our organisation.
This new infrastructure is designed to
improve our ability to respond, and meet
and exceed the needs of our business, while
making our cost structure transparent,
consolidated and controlled. The system is
future-ready and is capable of hosting future
requirements by developing, testing and
deploying applications and services to the
market at a faster rate and delivering instant,
self-service resources needed to accelerate
our success. Moreover, this also helps us in re-
allocating and re-investing resources towards
driving our business forward.
How will DAFZA Cloud function as an
enabling platform?
Ultimately, DAFZA Cloud platform will
allow IT to transform how they approach
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service delivery and create an environment
that enables the creation of disruptive
tools that fit into new business models,
increase customer engagement and enable
better social experiences. DAFZA Cloud
will act as a critical enabler for both IT and
business transformation and will enable
organisations to shift to a pull model for
technology that is built based on enhanced
services, consumption models and end-
to-end automation of IT services and
operation workflows to guarantee fast time
to market.
How is DAFZA automating its
internal processes?
DAFZA’s cloud platform delivers automated
infrastructure services for traditional
enterprise applications with greater speed,
scalability and agility, while reducing
costs and minimising risks. Automated
operations workflows and application
blueprints that are designed, tested and
integrated by Dell EMC will transform
what was once manual into automated
infrastructure provisioning, on-demand,
with management insights and cost
transparency. The DAFZA Cloud will deliver
IT-as-a-Service to meet required business
needs with add-on options for data
protection, disaster recovery and more.
How will a new and integrated cloud
infrastructure be introduced?
Introducing the new face of IT, DAFZA will
offer an expandable service catalogue,
presented through a simple self-service
portal that includes all of the services that
DAFZA has chosen to deliver. Beneath the
covers a full software defined datacentre will
be deployed based on VMware and hyper-
converged technology but as with any cloud
service provider, the self-service portal will be
the main interface.
What smart cloud services will
be introduced?
Besides the ‘Office in the Cloud”, multiple
service packages are planned to be
part of DAFZA’s Cloud offering such as
‘Infrastructure as a Service’, ‘Backup as a
Service’, ‘Disaster Recovery as a Service’,
‘Software as a Service’, ‘Database as a
Service’, ‘Video Surveillance as a Service’,
‘Desktop as a Service’, ‘Security as a Service’
and much more to be offered on this third
generation enabled platform. n
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