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Top-tier global data centers

SLA excellence

Flexible service offerings

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SAP in the cloud optimized for HANA

Proprietary cloud

Fully managed IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service

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Different businesses require different cloud strategies, but the cloud is sure to play an important role in your organization’s future. Our private cloud hosting option is a secure, cost-effective, flexible option for enterprise systems and cloud migrations. Our iHost and iHANA offerings (optimised for HANA) are built on industry-leading hardware and software, across multiple geographic regions. We provide simple-to-use, simple-to-consume cloud resources, plus geo-redundancy for the most critical workloads.

iHost: Get fully managed IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service, built with optimal cost reduction and increase in performance as the key foundations.

iHANA: Implement SAP® in the cloud with uniform and consistent management of classical operations and SAP HANA infrastructure.

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Top-tier global data centers

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 and VMWare 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.
  • Private cloud infrastructure powered by Equinix/Teraco and Fujitsu
  • Leveraging eight Equinix datacenters globally
  • Equinix data centers meet or exceed Tier III standards
  • Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX® SAP-certified architecture
  • Support for other public clouds as needed
  • Disaster Recovery and Backups Service including Geo-Redundancy

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Flexible service offerings
Hybrid Cloud

VDC-leveraged Private Cloud

Self-Service Portal | Consumption-Based | Infrastructure-aaS | Hypervisor
OS Monitoring

OS Monitoring & Management Services

Managed Services | Choice of OS | Updates & Patches | Logic Monitor
Network & Security

Network & Security Services

Managed Services | NSX | IPSEC & VPN | Edge Firewall
Backup Monitoring

Backup Monitoring & Management Services

Managed Services | VEEAM Enterprise | Backup-aaS | Flexible Retention
Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Services

Managed Services | DR-aaS | VEEAM | Replication | Dedicated or Syndicated
Advanced Services

Advanced Services

Optional Services | Advanced | Networking | Advanced Security
Assessment & Migration Services

Assessment & Migration Services

Cold, Warm and Live migration | Optional Services

Choose your preferred cloud hosting services

Dedicated Private Cloud

  • Private Cloud provided on dedicated infrastructure owned by client or EPI-USE Labs
  • EPI-USE Labs manages all license consumption and reporting
  • Hosted in client, partner or colocation facility
  • EPI-USE Labs provides full Managed Services support, including all required IaaS-related support, Networking and Security management and support, and Operating System management and monitoring.

Leveraged Private Cloud

  • Private Cloud provided on shared infrastructure owned by EPI-USE Labs
  • All services are consumed as-a-service from EPI-USE Labs through a self-service portal
  • Hosted in partner or colocation facility
  • EPI-USE Labs provides full Managed Services support, including all required IaaS-related support, Networking and Security management and support, and Operating System management and monitoring.

Backup-as-a-service

  • Backup-as-a-Service on dedicated infrastructure owned by client or EPI-USE Labs
  • EPI-USE Labs manages all license consumption and reporting
  • Hosted in client, partner or colocation facility
  • EPI-USE Labs provides a full Backup-as-a-Service offering, including all required backup-related support, monitoring, and reporting
  • Fast restores as and when required.

DR-as-a-service

  • Disaster Recovery (DR)-as-a-Service on dedicated or syndicated infrastructure owned by client or EPI-USE Labs
  • EPI-USE Labs manages all replication and restores
  • Hosted in partner or colocation facility
  • EPI-USE Labs provides full Managed Services support, including all required Disaster Recovery-related support, failovers, and DR testing.

Platform partnerships

Microsoft gold partner

vmware cloud verified

Veeam goal partner

suse partner

fujitsu partner

fortinet partner

SAP-certified solutions with strict security and compliance

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.

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Benefits of our private cloud hosting

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How our clients succeed

Aberdare

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

"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

"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

DGB distils its SAP challenges

"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

"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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