Revolutionize Your Data Center Strategy with GDS Africa
As organizations refocus their teams on digital transformation and adopt a multi-cloud strategy, there is growing attention on driving down data center infrastructure costs and managing the new normal of hybrid cloud.
GDS Africa brings extensive practice expertise across enterprise storage, servers, virtualization, data protection, and automation along with a consulting-led approach to enhance agility and better meet business demands.
- Optimize Infrastructure Costs
- Hybrid Cloud Expertise
- Enhanced Agility
- Consulting-Led Approach
Stay Ahead of the Demands of Your Mission-Critical, High-Value Workloads
As all-flash storage has become the mainstay in the data center, the resource bottleneck has commonly shifted back to server infrastructure. High-performance workloads are increasingly driving higher resource utilization and putting more pressure on you to scale-out server infrastructure and refresh into the latest technology for faster operations, security, and scalability.
GDS Africa experts and our market-leading partners can help you stay ahead of the curve—and ahead of your business IT demands.
Delivering Faster Time to Value with Best-of-Breed Solutions
GDS Africa has a long history as a top partner designing and delivering converged infrastructure solutions for our customers. Our integration facilities and top-tier talent are uniquely equipped to help you get infrastructure in place in order to meet the rapid demands of your business.
The converged and hyper-converged infrastructure markets are increasingly competitive with many great options. GDS Africa has solution design expertise and managed services capabilities to help you navigate this complexity so you can focus on quickly meeting business outcomes.
HPE Converged System
A factory integrated predictive converged infrastructure system that simplifies your environment, resolving 86% of issues beforehand and allowing scalable compute, network and storage resources
Dell EMC PowerOne
Released in late 2019, Dell EMC PowerOne combines compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and data protection into one streamlined, autonomous infrastructure system.
NetApp FlexPod
FlexPod builds on NetApp FAS/AFF Storage platforms, Cisco UCS Compute, and Cisco Networking to provide a fully-integrated infrastructure solution.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Data is becoming the most valuable asset to many organizations, but often times the right level of care into protecting that data is lacking. GDS Africa provides comprehensive backup, recovery, and disaster recovery data protection planning, solution design, and managed services to modernize your strategy and help make sure your business is appropriately protected.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Services
GDS Africa GRC advisory services allow you to manage IT operations; comply with CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA or PCI-DSS; align to NIST or ISO; and evaluate risk.
Data Security
Protect your data and maintain its confidentiality, integrity, and availability no matter where it resides. With effective governance, visibility and control, encryption, and structured monitoring and management, you can secure mission critical data and keep your most important assets safe.
GDS Africa Cloud Hosted Services
Complementing our data protection offerings, GDS Africa provides Cloud Hosted Services with white-glove managed services hosted on the latest enterprise platforms. Leverage flexible consumption-based cost models to better meet the cyclical demands of your business and limit upfront capital investments with Cloud Hosted Infrastructure, Cloud Managed Backup, and Cloud Disaster Recovery.
Our top partners in the industry include:
Finding Your Way in a DevOps World
Undergoing a DevOps transformation can introduce hurdles when initially making the change. These can include skillset gaps, process adaptation, modification of KPIs, and effective organizational governance challenges. But once you’ve cleared these potential roadblocks, DevOps allows you to align to your business outcomes to improve communication, reduce human error, strengthen teamwork, and establish a more agile and responsive overall approach to how you meet customer needs.
GDS Africa provides a suite of offerings to assist you along your DevOps transformation, including container orchestration and automation, integration, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Our education, workshop, and custom project-based services help your business reap the benefits of DevOps—if you are just dipping your toe in the DevOps waters or have a mature DevOps practice.
Container Orchestration and Automation
As organizations continue to look towards multi-cloud architectures to gain advantages on where and when they move and scale workloads, portability is an absolute requirement. Containerization lends itself perfectly to this by allowing applications to be deployed across private and public clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure) in an automated and standardized fashion. Efforts to test, validate, and release have never been easier.
Our offerings include:
- Trainings: Docker/Kubernetes/Ansible Fundamentals
- Workshops: Automation/Container Explorations
- Customized Design/Build/Deployment Services
Integration
As development, test, and production environments continue to grow and incorporate a bevy of specialized tools, the need for platforms offering a single management interface becomes hyper critical. Whether the platform of choice be ServiceNow or JIRA, for example, open API integrations to existing tools and infrastructure ensure users can manage their environments and task effectively. Agile architectures that include flexible integration allow a path to reduce complexity and lessen interconnected dependencies. GDS Africa offerings include custom evaluation, integration, and optimization services.
Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
When following effective DevOps practices, the value of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) becomes evident—with the ability to manage infrastructure environments the way development manages code releases. Scaling with push button-based deployment allows for an accelerated means to gain a consistent, scheduled, tested, and version-controlled infrastructure. GDS Africa offers custom IAC architecture services, tool implementation/integration, micro segmentation, and containerization services.
Building a Customized Roadmap on Your Journey to the Hybrid Cloud
Combining our long history of data center excellence with our dedicated cloud practice, GDS Africa can develop a hybrid cloud solution tailored to your business needs. Whether through pre-packaged or custom architectures, our experts help to build a consistent, secure platform for application delivery in a multi-cloud world.
GDS Africa provides a suite of consulting and advisory services through our talented team of engineers to design, architect, and deploy hybrid cloud solutions on a range of infrastructure platforms and software solutions. Key technology focus areas include:
- Cloud Strategy and Migration Services
- Hybrid Cloud Platforms (such as Nutanix Hybrid Cloud and VMware Cloud Foundations)
- Software-Defined Networking
- Hybrid Cloud Mobility
- Security
- Container Technologies
Leverage the Latest Advancements in Software-Defined Data Center Infrastructure
The hyper-converged infrastructure market is rapidly changing with rich feature functionality, mature automation controls, and hybrid cloud integrations. GDS Africa builds on our demonstrated experience designing and deploying converged infrastructure (CI) solutions to help organizations understand how both CI and HCI can fit in your environment—from new ways to manage your infrastructure, leverage integrated data services, and perform automated lifecycle management. We provide best-in-class technical services to get you up and running faster with training enablement, data migration services, and day 2 operations.
GDS Africa partners with leaders in the hyper-converged market and matches your business needs to the best solution:
Expertise to Design, Build, and Manage Your Enterprise Private Cloud
Many organizations are adopting a data-first business strategy as part of digital transformation initiatives, which involves building systems around data placement. Public cloud has constraints on data including latency, data privacy, regulation, and ingest/egress costs. Trends show that moving the cloud experience to the data along with true private cloud controls and enablement provides more value to the business over long-term. GDS Africa brings deep technical knowledge and experience to architect a wide range of infrastructure and private cloud management solutions from the industry’s top manufacturers.
The experts at GDS Africa will help translate your business requirements into an on-premise private cloud solution, featuring solutions such as:
- Cloud Data Management
- Converged or Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
- Software-Defined Networking
- Orchestration and Automation
- Comprehensive Software Lifecycle Management
- Managed Services
- Consumption-Based Cost Models
Data is a Critically Valuable Asset. How Are You Effectively Storing and Protecting It?
Storing and protecting your data requires a measured approach that considers many factors—carefully matching the requirements of your applications with the appropriate storage platform, tier of storage, storage data services, and cost for each workload. GDS Africa is at the forefront of helping customers with data management, private cloud storage solutions, and custom hybrid cloud strategies, including:
- Purpose-built storage platforms as a core component of converged infrastructure and differences with software-defined storage in hyper-converged infrastructure, helping you determine the best platform based on your needs
- The latest next-gen innovations in NVMe and Storage Class Memory (SCM), identifying the workloads best suited to benefit from these technologies
- Hybrid cloud data store solutions helping you bridge the gap between private and public clouds while maintaining tight control of the data
- Identifying data management strategies that provide agility to your business application leaders, such as copy data management, snapshots, and cloud storage snapshot/tiering capabilities
- The latest innovations in disaster recovery replication and automation solutions built into primary storage solutions, providing consistency and protection to other location(s) in the event of a site failure
- Use cases for massively scalable file and object storage platforms in the private cloud, such as application data, media, log data, archive, long-term backup retention, and big data analytics
- Secondary storage use cases for archive, data protection, and best ways to leverage data reduction technologies
GDS Africa partners with leaders in the hyper-converged market and matches your business needs to the best solution: