Telecoms: Vodacom promises more efficiency at lower cost
Speaking at the customer forum held in Lagos, Head of Product and Services, Vodacom Business Africa, Mr. Wale Odeyemi said that Vodacom’s Virtual Hosting Service is cost efficient and guarantees bottom line IT investments with reduction on both capital and operational costs.
“This is based on the fact that customers do not need to purchase their own hosting equipment but use shared infrastructure which lowers cost thus allowing each customer to only pay for the resources used. Customers can expect a server consolidation ratio of 13:1 when moving to a virtual environment,” he said.
He said the Virtual Hosting solutions are built specifically for companies wishing to establish effective and efficient environments. “This solution gives businesses the ability to host their web and mission critical applications on the high speed Internet, allowing the end users uninterrupted access to content.
These hosting solutions include providing for complex hosting utilities using VMware technology while increasing processor efficiency, address the skyrocketing energy costs, ensure hardware availability, comprehensive server monitoring, SAN storage and 24 hours support. This service is available in Nigeria and other West African Regions,” he said.
In his remark, Product Manager, Hosting, Vodacom Business Africa, Mr. Andre Gouws reiterated that customers do not need to modify their operating system while using the Virtual Hosting Service which guarantees efficiency, control and security which over time has been of great concern to customers. He assured customers of secured data, adding that Vodacom’s Virtual Hosting Service ensures that nobody gets unauthorized access to their data.
Endorsing the service, the Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, Mr. Tosin Amusa said with Vodacom’s Virtual Hosting Service, all communications are certificated based and encrypted, as he called on all to make use of the new service from Vodacom for better data storage.
