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OUR PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED ON
TIME AND ON BUDGET AND WE ARE A
DIGITALLY DRIVEN BUSINESS.
of racks’ in its data centre, but now only
houses three racks. According to Kibret, the
legacy air conditioner in the environment
is actually bigger than the entire new data
centre, and it has been able to downscale
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its air conditioning and power requirements
profoundly, reducing the costs of both.
“Core to all of this is that I can quickly
support and respond to the business,
because of the flexibility of the system,”
said Kibret. “Notably the end of the month
processing in a bank puts enormous pressure
on the business, now it is invisible to the end
user who is experiencing business as usual. I
have also reduced our reliance on hardware
providers completely and don’t have to
be concerned with six to eight-month
delivery times for infrastructure. We are a no
longer hardware reliant – we are software
driven business. We can plan IT projects
in advance and don’t have the headache
of trying to cobble together services on
different hardware versions. Our projects are
completed on time and on budget and we
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