Johannesburg: AfricUpdate – News Desk
Transnet SOC Ltd ambitions of a hybrid cloud future has received a major boost following the completion of two critical facilities which will modernise its data centre and hosting capabilities. This move will ensure that the company navigates the increasingly complex digital landscapes, thus ensuring that the foundational operations are resilient, secure, and capable of supporting next-generation business applications. This initiative is one of the four strategic pillars of Transnet’s forward-looking ICT Digital Modernisation Strategy.
The completion of two key facilities forms a strong foundation alongside the public cloud. These facilities include the private cloud data centre in Durban, which is designed to serve as a secure and scalable hub for business-critical systems. While a colocation environment in Gauteng with Vodacom, provides geographic redundancy and resilience while extending reach into one of the country’s primary ICT corridors.
Supported by a public cloud on Microsoft Azure through its strategic partners, Microsoft and the Cloud Service Provider, Liquid Intelligence Technologies, these facilities provide the necessary capacity, flexibility, and operational resilience to migrate core business applications and decades of data into a hybrid cloud architecture.
These technological improvements aim to enhance business continuity by ensuring a robust and resilient infrastructure that withstands downtime or disruptions while building environments capable of scaling to meet future business demands and enabling rapid provisioning of ICT resources. It will also streamline operations by reducing complexity and inefficiencies associated with legacy systems while ensuring compliance with industry-leading standards and regulations to protect both data and business processes.
Ultimately, this groundbreaking initiative will establish a platform that seamlessly bridges private cloud, colocation, and public cloud services for a true hybrid approach. Critical to this transformation has been the collaboration with Altron, with its Original Equipment Manufacturer, Huawei, the technology partner responsible for configuring and preparing the two private cloud environments.
Their expertise in data centre and cloud solutions has accelerated readiness, ensuring that the environments are optimised for migration and future integration into the broader hybrid cloud strategy. By partnering with Vodacom for colocation services in Gauteng, Transnet has also ensured strong network integration and high availability within South Africa’s ICT ecosystem.
With the Data Centre and infrastructure foundation in place, the organisation is now well positioned to migrate core business applications and vast repositories of historical data into its new hybrid cloud environment. This will not only modernise ICT operations, but it will also unlock opportunities for advanced analytics, digital platforms, and innovation across the business.
