20/11/2015
ANGANI POWERS BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL...
Press Release – For Immediate Release
20th November 2015
Premier Cloud computing giant Angani has confirmed that they now 95% up on all their operations following a system outage that occurred on 4th November 2015. Confirming the business environment, the new CEO Riyaz Bachani stated “Yes it is true we had systems challenges but for the past 10 days the Angani team has been working tirelessly to get all systems back up and I am proud to say we are now at 95% up and will seek to close the remaining 5% within the next couple of days”.
Riyaz Bachani, recently replaced Mr. Phares Kariuki as CEO of the fast growing Start Up, who left on 19th October alongside Mr. Brian Muita, the immediate former CTO.
Building high quality infrastructure isn’t new to the Mombasa-born MIT educated IT Professional. He was the founding CTO of Kenya Data Networks (now known as Liquid Telecom) and later CTO for Wananchi Group as they built the Zuku Triple Play Network.
Speaking on the outage, Waikwa Wambugu of Angani further stated; “Our main concern has always been maintaining the integrity of our client data and we’ve been able to guarantee this”. He also highlighted, “We must therefore thank our clients who have stood by us as we rebuilt our platform during this period. We also take pride in the fact that we did not lose customer data during this outage period, which also underscores the value we attach to building secure, robust and scalable infrastructure for our customers”.
To avoid a recurrence of a similar nature in future, Angani has rebuilt its cloud platform with a standard back up service integrated into it’s services that is hosted separately from its core network, making it the first Public Cloud Service Operator to offer this in Africa. This marks a milestone in redundancy for Public Cloud Services in Kenya, and Africa in general.
Mr. Bachani further stated that they feel confident about the ability of Angani to continue to deliver world class cloud computing services at an affordable price, reducing the cost of IT infrastructure for Kenyan Businesses.
Notes on Angani Ltd:
-Angani is Kenya’s first company dedicated exclusively to the provision of Public Cloud Services. Formed in 2013, Angani has grown significantly hosts major companies across multiple industry sectors, like Finance, Transport, Health, Telecoms and Media
-Angani aspires to be the African Cloud, by encouraging local data transfer while offering affordable computing infrastructure
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