Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 41 | Page 23

dy Syrex and Hystax to revolutionise cloud migration in Africa Syrex has entered into a strategic partnership with cloud migration and Disaster Recovery specialists, Hystax, to radically reduce the complexities businesses face across industry sectors typically face when transitioning to the cloud. Through this, Syrex can now deliver a complete suite of cloud migration and high availability solutions to its customers. Using Hystax, Syrex introduces an automation layer when moving workloads into the cloud that also manages both cloud infrastructure and Disaster Recovery more effectively. This will reduce organisational risk and cost for customers as they continue their Digital Transformation drives. “As innovation and agility become essential to succeed in today’s competitive business environment, organisations have shown an increased interest in smart cloud technologies. Hystax is happy to further expand our business with Syrex to provide our strategic partner and its customers in the region with a robust live cloud migration and Disaster Recovery solution,” said Nick Smirnov, CEO at Hystax. A Whole New is driving the anking in the indicates that hly conscious xclusion and ose to their ge consumer hyperking experiences, er demands as by 2020 (35%). ng executives identify new I, as the most sector by 2025. To this end, the Hystax Acura solution facilitates migration to public, private or hybrid clouds. It also delivers Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS). The fully automated solution supports all target and source platforms and helps to implement any cloud migration strategy to modernise IT infrastructure. “While other migration tools focus on specific platforms, Hystax empowers us to deliver a complete technology agnostic offering to companies across the continent,” said Ralph Berndt, Director of Sales at Syrex. www.intelligentcio.com