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THE USEFUL FEATURES AND THE DISASTER RECOVERY OPTIONS , THE EXPERT TEAM RSAWEB EMPLOYS AND THE ADVANCED NETWORKING SOLUTIONS RSAWEB CAN PRODUCE , DUE TO THE EXPERT TEAM , HAS INCREDIBLE VALUE TO US AT COMAIR .
Comair Limited is a South African aviation and travel company offering scheduled and nonscheduled airline services within South Africa , sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands . The company is managed and owned by South Africans through its listing on the JSE and has been operating successfully in the country since 1946 . business . Riaan Olivier , IT Operations Manager , Comair , explained that : “ We knew we had to become innovative with our approach to the online services we deliver in order to remain competitive . Therefore , the need arose to build an environment that can keep up with the pace of our fast-moving and everchanging business environment .”
In 1996 , the company underwent major changes when it became a franchise partner with British Airways . From this point , Comair became known as British Airways Comair and took on the colours and livery of British Airways International . In 2001 , Comair launched South Africa ’ s first ‘ no-frills ’ carrier in the form of kulula . com – kulula means ‘ easily ’ in Zulu .
kulula is more than just an airline brand and aims to make the complete travel experience easy and affordable for all South Africans . Today , the services on their website include not only flights but car hire , hotel bookings , travel packages and more . Currently , kulula averages about 35,000 unique visitors to their website per day and has 10 content uploaders constantly updating their website and making sure the site is always up-to-date . Comair is the only known airline to have achieved operating profits for 69 years and has a safety record which is internationally recognised .
Evolving business demands
Over the years as demand for their online services grew , Comair recognised that Information Technology had to become an enabler for better
In searching for a solution they identified that the core requirements were to create an environment for the Disaster Recovery ( DR ) site and a user acceptance testing ( UAT ) environment that could scale quickly and perform well . Riaan stresses that ; “ it ’ s important to offer our customers a website experience that is out of this world while at the same time providing a cost saving to Comair ’ s stakeholders .”
Industry-leading technology
After searching for a solution Comair chose to adopt the Virtual Data Centre services offered by Enterprise Cloud . Enterprise Cloud is built on the VMware virtualisation stack , an industry leading technology trusted by service providers and companies worldwide and includes the VMware vCloud Director , vSphere , vCentre and vCNS . Enterprise Cloud makes use of the Virtual Data Centre in VMware ’ s vCloud Director stack to isolate private networks using VxLANs . Added to this is the fact that Enterprise Cloud makes use of SolidFire storage which is designed with a highly fault-tolerant modular architecture to protect against any kind of hardware failure , with guaranteed sustained input / output per second ( IOPS ) ensuring that performance and continuity is maintained and guaranteed .
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