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With RSAWEB ’ s Enterprise Cloud , Comair now has all the benefits of owning a Virtual Data Centre ( VDC ) without any of the maintenance or capital costs making their business ’ online infrastructure secure , blazing fast and infinitely scalable . Most importantly for Comair , Enterprise Cloud has automated Disaster Recovery , advanced networking and they have access to RSAWEB ’ s team of Cloud experts for assistance . “ 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 ,” said Riaan .
PREVIOUSLY WE WERE UNABLE TO PROVIDE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION PERFORMANCE AND PENETRATION TESTING THROUGH OUR CERTIFICATION ENVIRONMENT , BUT WITH ENTERPRISE CLOUD WE PROVIDE 100 % OF THE PERFORMANCE OF OUR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT .
The transition to Enterprise Cloud was seamless as the deployment is incredibly quick and easy . Riaan noted that : “ Deploying the solution took a few minutes , after the required governance and purchasing documents were signed we received our access details and were able to start deploying services within minutes .”
The adoption of Enterprise Cloud also presented the IT department with a unique opportunity to get their various teams to communicate across functions and not just within their own silos . Enterprise Cloud provides visibility of resources and allows full control with the ability to increase and decrease performance requirements on demand . It also creates a logically isolated private environment and provides secure , modular architecture using VMware ’ s vCNS and VApps as part of the platform to protect against any kind of hardware failure . This has been immensely beneficial to Comair ’ s IT team as Riaan remarks ; “ Our IT Operations Team no longer worries about hardware upgrades or VM performance , now they can focus on delivering virtual infrastructure for new projects .”
Comair has also experienced the benefit of software developers no longer having to wait for IT Operations to provide the necessary hardware and infrastructure to build a certification environment . Now the software development teams can complete their deployments in Enterprise Cloud . This has led to Comair re-designing their UAT and certification environments into Enterprise Cloud for increased efficiency .
With Enterprise Cloud , websites and web applications are all guaranteed to have their performance boosted by the superior functionality of the system which leads to notable increases in productivity and efficiency . When commenting on the improvement in online services Riaan said that , “ Previously we were unable to provide successful application performance and penetration testing through our certification environment , but with Enterprise Cloud we provide 100 % of the performance of our production environment . We also now have a geographically isolated DR environment also with 100 % of the performance capacity of our production environment ,” he said .
The IT department at Comair now has 10 people using Enterprise Cloud daily and Riaan commented : “ Of course , the plan is to service all internal Comair applications in Enterprise Cloud in the future .” p
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