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Internet Solutions begins prefabricated
Parklands DC extension
The extension is the first of its kind at this scale in sub-Saharan
Africa. Its design accommodates flexible modules, tailored
to specific market requirements, contained within a modern
exterior structure.
Phase One, due to come online in July 2018, will contain
130 racks while subsequent modules will be ordered in
configurations best suited to client demands. At a total cost of
approximately half a billion rand, the data centre will provide
a total capacity of 572 racks and 2.2 megawatts of IT power.
equipment is no longer as state of the art as when it was
procured. The Parklands extension will open its doors in well
under a year.
“The modular design future-proofs our investment in the
facility, and provides our clients with a service that can adapt
to their changing business requirements,” says Saki Missaikos,
Managing Director of Internet Solutions.
“On completion of the Parklands expansion project, Internet
Solutions will boast the most ideally located, carrier-neutral
data centre in South Africa,” says Matthew Ashe, Executive:
Data Centres at Internet Solutions. “It hosts the Johannesburg
Internet Exchange, and is in close proximity to some of the
continent’s most important business centres, which makes
this data centre the obvious choice for local and multinational
enterprises alike.”
Traditional bricks and mortar facilities require substantial
initial capital outlay and typically take at least 24 months
to build and bring online, with the risk that design and
One Channel partners with 2Interact to
expand into HRMS
with commercially available ERP solutions popular in the
African market.
“We’ve followed the evolution of business software from
core accounting to ERP and now to extended ERP, HRMS and
multi-cloud and have adapted our business model to enable
us to deliver these modern extensible systems. Interact HRMS
is the perfect fit, a pure web-based application,” says One
Channel CEO, Bernard Ford.
Cloud specialist One Channel has partnered with 2Interact,
a global human resources management system (HRMS)
provider, as part of One Channel’s strategy to provide
complete cloud-based solutions to mid-sized and larger
customers on the African continent.
Interact HRMS provides a complete suite of seamlessly
integrated applications that encompass the full scope of HR
and payroll. The solution is a pure web application which
can be deployed in both a public or private cloud. It can also
function as a standalone HRMS application or be integrated
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HRMS solutions are constantly evolving to meet the changing
needs of customers across various industries including
banking and finance, construction, manufacturing, oil and
gas, healthcare, education, logistics, packaging, shipping,
consulting services and government.
Ford says once the HR department becomes a strategic
player in an organisation instead of playing a back-office role,
management will realise the importance of HRMS. “We can
give you the tools to be able to achieve this transformation
by procuring and implementing the optimal HRMS solution.
HRMS must become one of the backbone mission critical
systems for any organisation,” he concludes.
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