Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies business, has announced its first customer and partner in Africa. BCX, Africa\u2019s premier end-to-end digital solutions partner, providing advanced information and communications technology, will implement Virtustream\u00ae xStream\u00ae and Virtustream Viewtrust\u2122 software to further orchestrate, automate and secure BCX\u2019s cloud capabilities.<\/p>\n
Virtustream xStream is an integrated cloud management platform that enables service providers such as BCX to deliver enterprise-class, IT-as-a-Service to their customers. BCX\u2019s cloud capabilities are strengthened by the addition of Virtustream Viewtrust enterprise risk management and continuous compliance monitoring solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to support BCX\u2019s extension of their cloud solutions into mission-critical applications to serve the market needs across South Africa,\u201d said Steve Midgely, Vice President, Virtustream. \u201cOur relationship with BCX is further evidence that Virtustream\u2019s platform is the preferred solution for enterprise cloud services delivering mission-critical applications for customers throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
BCX, a fully owned Telkom Group subsidiary, serves Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed enterprises, public sector organisations, state-owned entities and medium-sized businesses in Africa, Dubai and the UK. Virtustream\u2019s cloud capabilities will be deployed in two BCX Tier IV data centres, one in Johannesburg and the other in Cape Town, for the coverage BCX requires to meet their growing business needs supported by Telkom Group\u2019s reliable Metro Ethernet connectivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnterprise cloud is a high priority for businesses in South Africa and we undertook a rigorous selection process to find the right solution to offer business-critical workloads in the cloud for our customers and enhance our existing cloud capabilities,\u201d said Jacques Loubser, Chief of Infrastructure Solutions, BCX Group. \u201cIn the end, Virtustream was a good fit for us, because we already manage many major private company and government workloads. These organisations deeply value the agility and performance of the Virtustream cloud solution. The additional benefits accrued from Virtustream Viewtrust for security and compliance make the new service a compelling and unique offering within South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Virtustream cloud solutions are expected to go into service within the BCX data centres in July 2017.<\/p>\n
About Virtustream<\/strong><\/p>\n Virtustream, a Dell Technologies business, is the enterprise-class cloud service and software provider trusted by enterprises worldwide to migrate and run their mission-critical applications in the cloud. For enterprises, service providers and government agencies, Virtustream\u2019s xStream management platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) meets the security, compliance, performance, efficiency and consumption-based billing requirements of complex production applications in the cloud, whether private, public or hybrid. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies business, has announced its first customer and partner in Africa. BCX, Africa\u2019s premier end-to-end digital solutions partner, providing advanced information and communications technology, will implement Virtustream\u00ae xStream\u00ae and Virtustream Viewtrust\u2122 software to further orchestrate, automate and secure BCX\u2019s cloud capabilities. Virtustream xStream is an integrated cloud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,399,19],"tags":[700,321,125,1526,1236,745,453,2558],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-more-news","category-regional-news","tag-bcx","tag-cape-town","tag-data-centre","tag-dell-technologies","tag-enterprise-cloud","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa","tag-virtustream"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}