South Africa: Busamed migrates to private cloud environment with DataCentrix

Private South African hospital group Busamed has migrated to a private cloud environment with Datacentrix, consolidating seven on-premise data centers into a single central environment.

“Due to our acquisitions, the organization had not only attained new businesses but had inherited the technologies used at those sites too. These were not simple ‘rip and replace’ environments, so Busamed had to phase in migration opportunities over a period of four to five years, ultimately leaving the business with multiple minor data centers," said Moodley.

“Add to this capex complexities, as each hospital operates as its own entity, and we were left with a siloed infrastructure that was inefficient, particularly from a running cost and licensing perspective, with tasks that were duplicated across the seven sites, and a complicated cyber security set-up.”

Dinesh Maharaj, account manager at Datacentrix added, “Our calculations showed that, by moving to a hosted cloud model, Busamed would be able to cover 46 percent of the project cost on power savings alone with normal Eskom electricity usage. This scaled up to 73 percent savings on stage four load-shedding, factoring in diesel generator usage, and again to 92 percent on a stage six schedule."