A presentation of Utande Internet Services at the Cloud Computing breakfast briefing in Harare (01 November 2011) by Colin Franco

1. Utande Internet Services @
the EMC Cloud Computing
Breakfast
1st November 2011
CTO: Colin Franco

2. Presentation Overview
About Utande Internet
Utande Cloud and Data Centre
Cloud Product Offerings
Question & Answer session

3. About Utande Internet
Internet Access Provider Class A licence holder since 2009.
Previously operated as Corporate Solutions Provider since 1997
Project Success
- Delta WAN - ± 250 nodes
- SEACOM link
- Tier 3 Dark Data Centre
SEACOM interconnection

4. About Utande (continued)
Internet
- Internet access services for corporates and SMEs
- Premium Internet experience with high availability and
consistency
- Uncapped un-contentioned bandwidth
Connectivity
- provision of fibre last mile through agency relationships with
other providers or using the company’s own WiMAX wireless
broadband or VSAT offerings

5. About Utande (continued)
Data Centre
- state of the art data centre for accommodating our own
infrastructure and provision of co-location and cloud services
Cloud Services
- infrastructure based on the VMware, Cisco and EMC trinity
- the future of IT infrastructure based on these best of class
technologies

6. Cloud Product offerings
Numerous Storage Offerings and being developed to leverage the
power of our EMC VNX, which was the first of it’s kind installed in
Africa.
 Single Server Deployments
 Virtual Data Centres
 Storage as a Service
 Data Backup to the cloud for personal, SME and corporate users

7. Complete back-up solution for up to 2TB of data
Client Side Data Deduplication significantly reduces back-up
windows and bandwidth requirements
Ideal for automated back-up for business laptops, work stations and
servers
Includes state-of-the-art software

8. Purpose built and scalable cloud storage platform to provide
Individual and SOHO users with on-demand back-up and recovery
Web enabled - access and manage through GUI
Policy managed - set and forget policies to decide what to back-up
For unstructured data – files, documents, images
Back-up data available from any where

9. Deduplication storage systems for backup and recovery using your
existing back-up software.
A single system can protect up to 28 petabytes through integration
with existing virtual of physical server environment while reducing
storage requirements by 10-30x as primary on-site back-up
High speed deduplication of up 26TB per hour
Replicate data efficiently into Utande cloud infrastructure for reliable
offsite back-up

10. Questions & Answers

11. Introducing….
Mike Weeden
GM Cloud Computing