March 29, 2023
East African enterprises can benefit from SEACOM’s CloudWorx
Cloud computing has become a crucial aspect of organisational strategy in today’s digitally-driven world. Its importance lies in its ability to provide greater flexibility, scalability and agility, enabling African companies to deliver innovative solutions and accelerate the pace of building a brighter future for Africa.
Large enterprises in East Africa looking for private and secure cloud environments should consider CloudWorx. This service bridges the gap between companies and the cloud by providing direct connectivity to major cloud service providers, like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. The service is provisioned across SEACOM’s global IP/MPLS network, which is interconnected via the African Cloud Exchange in South Africa and Equinix Data Centres in Europe.
What is CloudWorx?
As a member of the African Cloud Exchange, our CloudWorx service is the de-facto vehicle connecting businesses across the continent directly to leading cloud providers. This allows for dedicated, secure and private access in Africa and beyond.
CloudWorx includes all the necessary connectivity components to deliver a secure link between the business and its chosen cloud providers. It also includes a virtual local area network (VLAN) between your company and the cloud provider, as well as SEACOM fibre from the nearest point of presence (PoP) directly to your premises.
CloudWorx also provides companies with dedicated and reliable access to essential business applications and programs via their own cloud networks, which helps to boost overall business productivity. These services are always-on and provide business continuity by allowing employees to quickly and easily access various cloud-based applications.
Key business benefits of CloudWorx
CloudWorx services are scalable, fully symmetrical, secure, capable of delivering low latency and upgradeable, with various last-mile connectivity options. Importantly, this service delivers highly secure connectivity as CloudWorx traffic does not traverse over the internet. Traffic is never throttled and there is no contention.
This increases the speed and reliability of the connection as data is transferred via the lowest latency path to the cloud provider. What’s more, SEACOM offers no fair use policy and there are no surprise out-of-bundle charges.
SEACOM offers multiple variants of CloudWorx, which cater for both international and local cloud providers, as well as hybrid and multi-cloud options. These services are burstable as ethernet interfaces allow for rapid capacity upgrades and the ability for customers to expand above their committed line rate.
Why enterprises need cloud computing
Cloud computing continues to grow at an exponential rate and is rapidly being adopted by companies in East Africa. Business leaders are realising that it’s time to direct their attention towards their core businesses, which means transforming IT infrastructure into utilities which enable faster provisioning of IT services.
This results in an increase in the efficiency of achieving business goals are achieved. This transformation is enabled through the cloud and cloud service providers. Companies now need fast, reliable, dedicated, secure and private connectivity to the various cloud instances, if they are to remain competitive in the modern business landscape.
SEACOM provides CloudWorx to enterprises in East Africa, which ensures that employees enjoy the very best in online accessibility, making it easier to perform multiple tasks seamlessly and maintain high productivity levels. For more information or to get a quote for our CloudWorx solutions, email us at marketing@seacom.com or leave us a message.
SEACOM owns Africa’s largest network of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, including fibre optic networks and subsea cables. We offer a wide range of industry-leading scalable ICT solutions for large companies that operate throughout the region.
SEACOM is privately owned - making it adaptable to the needs of the client. We are the preferred ICT and internet connectivity supplier for African enterprises. We can guarantee fast, reliable and secure internet and networking services at affordable prices.
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