EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Greetings to the readers of Intelligent CIO Africa . As African enterprises embrace the world of digital business one of the primary and immediate challenges they will face is investing in the right infrastructure and right technology platforms . And it is not just ecommerce businesses that witness exponential growth in traffic and transactions .
African enterprises that successfully move their business offerings from on-premises to cloud and focus on their digital customer experience can witness rapid demands to scale their infrastructure to host their fast growing digital traffic and demands for value services .
In this month ’ s cover feature we present how South African travel management company BIDTravel , with nine legal entities , has modernised travel services by upgrading its Nutanix private cloud resulting in centralised management , simplified migration , automatic firmware upgrades , elimination of infrastructure downtime , rapid deployment of servers , enhanced IT efficiency , and business agility .
BIDTravel began a complete upgrade of its entire Nutanix ecosystem in February 2024 . It successfully migrated 80 servers within a month to the new Nutanix environment . It also moved away from Microsoft hypervisor , Hyper-V to Nutanix hypervisor , AHV as its hypervisor of choice . solution , and its on-premises ERP environment are powered by Nutanix infrastructure . Nutanix has become a critical part of BIDTravel ’ s business .
The business benefits of using Nutanix have also become clear . The current modern Nutanix infrastructure requires only one person . Using the management capabilities provided by Nutanix and the simplicity of the environment , BIDTravel has complete visibility of its infrastructure from a centralised dashboard . This is a key value benefit provided by the Nutanix platform .
Turn these pages to read more about the digital transformation that is taking place across Africa .
As Africa focusses on development of skills in technology there is also the challenge of inclusion and diversity in the field of technology . What steps can African enterprises take to build an inclusive and diverse technology workforce driving greater women ’ s participation in technology career roles ? Executives from Mukuru , ESET and Duxbury Networking , share their experiences in boosting diversity and inclusion in their workplace .
Wishing you the best of business success in the month ahead .
At present , BIDTravel is running its entire data estate on modern Nutanix infrastructure . One of BIDTravel ’ s key business applications , a Java-based load balancing
Arun Shankar Managing Editor arun @ lynchpinmedia . com
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