AFRICA
REGIONAL
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AFRICA
Syrex, which specialises in the
installation and support of Linux,
Microsoft, virtualised and hybrid
network infrastructures, has
partnered with cloud migration
and disaster recovery specialists,
Hystax, to reduce the complexities
businesses face.
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 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.
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.
Because of its automation capabilities,
Hystax Acura delivers consistent replication
of any type of workload, provides the ability
to run unlimited number of test migrations
and facilitates an orchestrated launch of
business applications on a target site,” said
Ralph Berndt, Director of Sales at Syrex.
He said that Hystax is capable of
completely assimilating the client
environment on a per server basis and
locking that into the orchestrator interface.
Using Hystax, the company can build in
all the required commands that include
security patching and the required network
layers in the environment to create a high
availability replica of the server. This can
be activated when needed and provides an
exact duplicate of the environment prior to
the restore.
This will reduce organisational
risk and cost for customers
as they continue their Digital
Transformation drives.
“This means the business can seamlessly
switch between on-premises and cloud
environments with zero impact on
performance or operations. Hystax is a
unique global vendor that delivers services
to ease migration in a staged way. In doing
so, the customer can run both environments
in sync and have the freedom to choose
which side becomes active and which is
passive,” said Berndt.
Hystax Acura provides the quickest
automated way to evolve into a cloud-centric
organisation. There is no risk of failing or
any data loss occurring using the solution.
It is about getting the business cloud-ready
through completely digital means.
“The initial focus will be on Azure, but
AWS support is expected to be available later
this year. Migrating to the cloud is a massive
undertaking, even for dedicated IT personnel.
With a myriad of options available on Azure,
there is no real way to guarantee that the
environment will be the same as with the onpremises
one. This also does not account for
the unique security, accessibility and other
settings specific to the business. Hystax
Acura changes all that with a completely
automated way to provide the peace of mind
that what is available in the cloud is exactly
as what is on-premises. This partnership will
radically transform how companies embrace
the cloud in Africa,” concluded Berndt. •
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