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Oracle opens first cloud region in Africa
Johannesburg Region will boost cloud adoption across Africa while also helping businesses achieve better performance and drive continuous innovation . The opening marks Oracle ’ s 37th loud region worldwide with plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022 , continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider .
“ The Fourth Industrial Revolution , which is powered by cloud-led technologies , has significantly accelerated in South Africa and the wider African continent . In recent months , cloud technologies have played a vital role in helping African public and private sector organisations ensure business continuity , deliver essential services , and meet evolving customer expectations . The Oracle Johannesburg region offers a next-generation cloud to run any application faster and more securely for less , helping businesses build resilience , agility and achieve improved ROI ,” said Richard Smith , Executive Vice President , EMEA , Oracle .
Richard Smith , Executive Vice President , EMEA , Oracle
Tech giant Oracle has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Africa to meet the rapidly growing demand for enterprise cloud services on the continent . The Oracle Cloud
The Johannesburg Region is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ( OCI ), which enables customers to easily migrate IT workloads and data platforms to the cloud or build new cloud native applications . In addition , Oracle offers a wide range of application modernisation and cloud strategies to help African organisations operate with global competitiveness .
DAC Systems assists Two Mountains in migrating to Office 365
Two Mountains , a South African group of companies operating in both the financial and burial services industries since 1999 , has contracted Microsoft Gold Certified systems integrator DAC Systems to migrate the organisation to Office 365 as it was looking for a more cost-effective and integrated productivity suite that could also deliver telephony features .
“ Our emails were hosted by a third-party provider that was unable to deliver on our growing capacity requirements . Furthermore , their email system did not have many of the features that have become commonplace today like a corporate global calendar and meeting scheduler ,” said Lindani Ngema , CIO , Two Mountains .
Two Mountains has a national footprint spanning the Eastern Cape , Gauteng , KwaZulu-Natal , Limpopo and Mpumalanga . It has 19 parlours and 64 satellite offices serving more than 1,500 employees . In the last year , Two Mountains opened nine parlours to cater for demand . But while not every employee requires Office 365 , the organisation needed a solution that could enable better collaboration .
“ Added to this , the management of our software licences was chaotic to say the least . Our licensing model was not sufficient to deliver on
Lindani Ngema , CIO , Two Mountains
our requirements . This resulted in Two Mountains soliciting proposals from various providers with DAC Systems being appointed to assist with the modernisation and automation of business processes ,” Ngema said .
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