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As Seidor Networks underwent significant growth and rapid expansion on the African continent, the company faced increasingly complex SAP workloads and growing demand for a variety of solutions. The company was challenged by increasing operational costs and low-profit margins and limited O&M control and required a dedicated local support team. Through the United VARs alliance, Seidor teamed up with HUAWEI CLOUD to weigh off Seidor's shoulders, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

The HUAWEI CLOUD South Africa team worked closely with the Seidor infrastructure team and finalised Huawei Cloud IaaS architecture for SAP and SAP B1. HUAWEI CLOUD provided a dedicated infrastructure team of IT experts to advise on best practices to simplify operations, reduce deployment time and slash operational and hosting costs.

• Create new value through a multi-cloud strategy, which meant running workloads on AWS, Azure, and HUAWEI CLOUD. It also required logical multi-tenant billing to bill its customers for both the HUAWEI CLOUD resources consumed and the SAP B1 SaaS services used.
• Integrated its platform with Morpheus, allowing Seidor to have a single pane of glass when managing its customers across multiple cloud platforms

• Availability: Comprising Elastic Cloud Servers, Object Storage Service, network services, and database services, provides full security and regulatory compliance.
• Easier operations and control
• Maintenance time was shortened by 30%.
• Seidor Networks went on to move ERP workloads to HUAWEI CLOUD, leading to a 20% reduction in operations and management costs compared to when using similar infrastructure services from AWS.

With the second availability zone launched locally in Africa, Seidor can use other integrated services such as disaster recovery, backup, and load balancing to increase the availability of services even further.

Seidor Networks is now positioned to quickly expand into East and West Africa, and this year, Seidor uses HUAWEI CLOUD’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to create a fully integrated control model. Seidor is also pursuing some other ambitious plans like multi-cloud orchestration, and it will potentially use more HUAWEI CLOUD services to drive its business forward.

Why United VARs and Huawei Cloud?

• HUAWEI CLOUD provided Seidor with dedicated business development and technical team, providing guidance and recommendations when required. It also provides Seidor with continuous training and enablement sessions for hands-on experience and certification all as value-added services.

“We needed a more agile and elastic solution, but we didn't have time for all of the discussions involving architectural planning, machine sizing, and procurement processes. Huawei Cloud assigned a professional business development and technical team to suit our requirements. That is why we decided to adopt Huawei Cloud,” - Darryl Maroun, Managing Director of Seidor Networks South Africa.

“These systems are critical. If they go down, it results in high financial losses. That’s why the move to HUAWEI CLOUD marked a real milestone for us. Everything has been running smoothly and safely ever since,” said Juan Pierre Prinsloo, Infrastructure Manager of Seidor Networks.

"We were safe in the knowledge that our systems would be stable and available at all times. The speed of the cloud made it possible to effectively and efficiently manage systems while working from home,” said Terrence Chowles, Project Director of Seidor Networks South Africa.