FIBRE VISIONARIES TAKE BUSINESSES INTO THE CLOUD
By Wayne D’ sa, Managing Director at CipherWave
No longer a buzzword, South African businesses are reaping the many tangible and quantifiable benefits that Cloud brings.
T he connectivity landscape for businesses( and consumers) looked lacklustre in 2010 – unreliable, slow, and expensive. While the rest of the country was at fever pitch for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a dynamic team of visionary entrepreneurs founded CipherWave with the mission of enabling South African businesses to do more, grow faster, and thrive with fast and reliable Internet.
The world becomes more bandwidth hungry every day as the Internet continues to transform the way we live and work. For a business customer, it is essential that its provider has the right capacity to deliver the bandwidth required to meet its needs and those of its customers. CipherWave partners with leading carrier providers to ensure that it can meet the requirements of customers – to stay connected 24 / 7 and to have a failover option in the case that something might go wrong.
Cloudy, with a chance of increased productivity and profits
A natural progression of CipherWave’ s business has been towards the Cloud. No longer a buzzword, South African businesses are reaping the many tangible( and quantifiable) benefits it brings. This includes not having to own or maintain server infrastructure, directing working capital to other strategic areas, deploying new business services much quicker, and enabling employees to be more productive by accessing business systems and applications from anywhere.
Identifying the right Cloud partners has been key to enabling CipherWave to deliver enterprise-class Cloud offerings. It has built its Cloud offering on the back of partnerships with industry leaders such as Microsoft, VMWare, and Veeam. This is supported by a Cloud infrastructure built on industry-leading hardware.
CipherWave snubbed traditional copper technology and, instead, hedged its bets on the future: Fibre. It created a worldclass fibre ring network in the country’ s main business hubs – the big three, plus Bloemfontein and East London. CipherWave partnered with network infrastructure players to enable its customers to benefit off its network. Fibre connectivity is quick to deploy and easy to scale, which makes it the ideal option for the SME that is gearing for growth.
CipherWave owns and manages a state-of-the-art data centre in Midrand, with full replication and redundancy to a secondary data centre in Isando. This allows CipherWave to provide secure facilities for businesses to store or backup their data or host their productivity applications in the CipherWave Cloud environment.
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