Private Cloud Hosting

Different businesses require different cloud strategies, but one thing is consistent across the board: the cloud is sure to play an important role in your organisation’s future. Enterprises which are slow to adopt cloud strategies risk being left behind in this rapidly-changing digital landscape.

You need a well-designed, secure cloud hosting solution that aligns with your business and infrastructure needs.

In addition to our global partnerships with AWS and Microsoft Azure, we offer a private cloud platform. This means we can offer a flexible approach to providing Infrastructure and Platform as a service (IaaS/PaaS), along with the benefit of our proprietary products and services.

What is our private cloud hosting option?

Our private cloud hosting option is a secure, cost-effective, flexible option for enterprise systems and cloud migrations. Our dedicated private cloud is built on industry-leading hardware and software, and offered across multiple geographic regions. We provide simple-to-use, simple-to-consume cloud resources, plus geo-redundancy for the most critical workloads.

We build your cloud around your requirements, your workloads and your jurisdiction. Each deployment is dedicated to your organisation, anchored in your chosen jurisdiction, and fully managed by our engineering team across every layer of the stack.

Get fully managed IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service, built with optimal cost reduction and increase in performance as the key foundations. Implement SAP® in the cloud with uniform and consistent management of classical operations and SAP HANA infrastructure.

Which top-tier global data centers do we use?

Our partners for hosting data centers are Equinix and Teraco. Equinix provides top-tier data centers that meet or exceed Tier III standards, the highest commercially available data center rating as measured by the Uptime Institute. Teraco is the only provider of resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in Africa.

We use Fujitsu to provide shared IT infrastructure resources for all x86 SAP workloads and any possible non-SAP workloads. Fujitsu provides pre-defined, validated and pre-tested reference architecture combining Fujitsu Servers, storage, network connectivity and infrastructure management software.

Is our private cloud hosting secure and compliant?

We have adopted the Information Security Management Systems and Controls from ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 that govern the management, development, and operations of SAP platforms. We’ve undergone multiple, rigorous independent audits by an accredited certification registrar. We have been awarded ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 certification and SOC 2 assurance reports, or Service Organization Control 2, and have also implemented the requirements of the HIPAA/Hitech(AT-C 105 and AT-C 205) legislation.

ISO27701 is an extension of the ISO27001 standard which outlines a framework to manage Personally Identifiable Information (PII). EPI-USE Labs has successfully implemented all the controls as a Data Processor and currently maintains the ISO27701 certification for Cloud Hosting, Managed Services and XCentral stack of solutions. EPI-USE Labs has also obtained ISO27017 certification which is a further extension of ISO27001 that focuses on information security controls applicable to the provision, security and use of cloud services.

EPI-USE Labs sparks off S/4HANA for Aberdare

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EPI-USE Labs helped us implement our SAP roadmap, and the team is always available when we need them. We achieved upgrades into the HANA space within short timelines and at low costs; the migration was seamless with no interruptions in work. We now have efficient technical support and effective IT management tools.

Raven Mahabeer, General Manager: Information Management at Aberdare Cables

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The Isle of Wight Council: Smooth migration to the EPI-USE Labs cloud

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I would genuinely say there is a large percentage of the users that didn’t know it happened. So it was the ideal project, with an improvement of performance and little to no interruption to access because the migration was that smooth.

Gavin Muncaster, Strategic Manager of ICT & Digital Services, Isle of Wight Council

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DGB distils its SAP challenges

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We contracted EPI-USE Labs to upgrade our SAP environment, and then thereafter to do our Basis support. They make sure that there are no performance issues with our system, and then they also provide us with a copy of our production environment.

Carel van der Merwe, Group IT Manager, DGB (Pty) Ltd

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Purdue University transforms the future with S/4HANA

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We could not be more pleased with the initial outcomes of Finance transformation and our partnership with EPI-USE and EPI-USE Labs. Together we were able to take a vision for simplified finance structures and processes and build technology that significantly enhances our financial transparency, while creating automated, efficient and paperless workflow.

Timothy Werth, Senior Director, Business Process Re-engineering, Purdue University

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