Case Study
Node Africa leads Africa to be a ‘Cloud First’ continent – deploying a greenfi eld data centre infrastructure in six weeks
Node Africa leads Africa to be a ‘Cloud First’ continent – deploying a greenfi eld data centre infrastructure in six weeks
VMWARE CASE STUDY CUSTOMER Node Africa WEB SITE www.nodeafrica.com INDUSTRY Information Technology – Service Provider LOCATION Nairobi, Kenya KEY CHALLENGES • Deploy data centre in <two months • Create hybrid off ering • Reduce bandwidth challenges SOLUTION Deploying the vCloud Architecture Toolkit, a scalable cloud infrastructure was built in six weeks, utilising vSphere, vCloud Director and NSX. Leveraging the vCAN model customers only pay for what they use. BUSINESS BENEFITS • Commodity networking equipment • Replication under six hours • Reduced latency for service providers Node Africa leads Africa to be a ‘Cloud First’ continent – deploying a greenfi eld data centre infrastructure in six weeks When cloud service provider and cloud broker Node Africa decided to set up