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TOOLS
ARE VITAL
Why companies must
have the right tools for
performance optimisation
COMMITMENT
IS GROWING
Egypt has become one of
global company Oracle’s
top markets
ENHANCING
THE EXPERIENCE
EDITOR’S
NOTE
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ello and welcome to the latest
edition of Intelligent CIO Africa. This
month’s cover story focuses on the
Mauritius Union Group and how it turned
to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to
replace its core IT infrastructure.
The company operates within the
financial services industry, specialising in
insurance, corporate pension schemes,
investment and loans. Backed by 65 years
of experience and the combined expertise
of five district business entities, Mauritius
Union Group offers customised and tailor-
made solutions. The company first looked
at hyperconvergence as an alternative
to continual investment into siloed and
three-tiered legacy systems because of
needs to consistently integrate the legacy
environments from merges and acquisitions
over the last 10 years. However, they were
introduced to Nutanix HCI by Service Services
(Mauritius) Ltd (SSML), who pioneered
the solution. Nutanix enables IT teams to
build and operate powerful multi-cloud
architectures, with its Enterprise Cloud OS
software providing a single point of control
to manage IT infrastructure and applications
at any scale. And as Rishi Sewnundun, Head
of Information Systems at Mauritius Union
Group testifies, deploying Nutanix was ‘a
simple, out-of-the-box experience’.
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Cloud adoption is certainly on the rise in
Egypt and this month’s country focus looks
at why it is one of Oracle’s top markets.
Unlike any other cloud vendor, Oracle offers
a complete range of services in all three
primary layers of the cloud: Software as a
Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)
and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). And
as Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban, Senior
Vice President (Technology), Middle East
and Africa, Oracle explains, organisations in
Egypt have initiated major transformation
projects to offer new products, expand into
new markets, hire and retain best talent or
deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Having the right tools in place when it
comes to performance optimisation is vital
and that is the focus of one of our features.
ManageEngine has more than 90 products
and free tools that help cover everything that
IT needs. We spoke to Vice President Sridhar
Ivenga, who explains that companies should
not just focus on network performance, they
must look at all the components of the entire
business, such as the servers, applications
and devices. He provides the example of
streaming applications and how it has an
impact on your bandwidth, causing the
applications to slow down because people
are using them for their personal need. That
led to one of ManageEngine’s customers
Hoteliers must embrace
IoT devices to enable next-
generation guest experiences
GOING WEBSCALE
Leading financial services company The
Mauritius Union Group turns to cloud
software to replace its core IT infrastructure.
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using one of its products to identify the
specific IP address or the user who was
running these applications because the
network was slowing down.
Many people – and the organisations
that employ them – find business growth
stressful, even though many firms are
constantly looking to grow their businesses
by expanding into new territories, developing
new product lines or boosting their profits. In
Talking Business, Terri Hiskey, Vice-President,
Manufacturing Product Marketing, Epicor
Software Corporation, looks at this how
research shows that businesses turn to a
variety of methods to help them keep on
top of the stresses and challenges they face
while growing and different members of the
workforce have conflicting opinions on how to
make business growth a better experience.
We also have all our usual features and latest
news from across the continent. If you want
to get in touch, please email:
paul@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
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