FEATURE: PRINTING SOLUTIONS
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Hyperconvergence
has enabled a leading
South African printing
company to improve
performance, scalability
and significantly reduced
management time.
K
emtek Imaging Systems (Kemtek)
is based in Johannesburg, South
Africa and has over 30 years of
experience in providing quality
driven technologies to well established brands
in the commercial and industrial print, 3D/
additive manufacturing, auto identification,
barcoding, and labelling industries.
The company’s focus is on the supply of
fully integrated equipment solutions coupled
with a highly skilled service and post-sales
support philosophy. Through its portfolio,
the company offers print solutions, rapid 3D
printing, bar coding, and labelling solutions.
IT challenges
Providing leading technology services, it was
fundamental to the company that it had a
robust IT system in place that could meet
customer demands. IT plays a major role in
the day to day operations of the company,
so when its existing environment began to
reach the end of its lifespan, Kemtek saw this
as an opportunity to upgrade.
As a growing business, it was essential
that Kemtek could grow IT infrastructure
when required without cost and capacity
challenges. Alongside this, the company
wanted to invest in a platform that offered
performance, replication capabilities, and
easy management – all at a competitive
price point.
Andre Theron, IT Manager at Kegmtek,
said: “Our IT environment is pivotal to
the way we work, and it’s important that
any platform can support our customer
demands. When our existing system
reached the end of its life-span, we
wanted to take the time to ensure any
new investment could not only meet
requirements now but also in the future.
“One of the main things we looked for was
scalability, this was a major selling point for us.
But it was also critical that we could benefit
from flexibility and improved performance.”
Finding the right solution
Kemtek worked with its long-term partner
Edgetec Systems to evaluate the market
and find a new solution that would meet
its requirements.
The company needed a solution that would
provide high availability, was able to scale,
offer performance and was easy to use. With
this in mind, Edgetec Systems immediately
understood a hyperconverged platform
would be the ideal fit.
Kemtek deploys
Scale Computing
to meet growing
business demands
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