08 April 2015

Khatib and Alami (K&A) is said to have reduced costs by 40 per cent following a migration from private to public cloud. The international design consultancy is leveraging Iland’s enterprise cloud and disaster recovery services as the IT backbone that runs and protects its mission-critical applications. 

K&A offers services in a number of areas including architecture and engineering, power and electrical utilities, telecoms, and others. It has operations in the Middle East, Africa, Western Europe and North America. K&A

The firm initially made the move to a private cloud hosted in an Iland data centre as part of its strategy to consolidate the IT environments that supported its numerous global offices. During the transition, K&A also experimented with public cloud by implementing Iland’s Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service to support business continuity, should anything happen to its private cloud.

But the firm says its rapid growth began to outpace the efficiency and scalability capabilities of a private cloud. “All of the maintenance and management headaches and the fact we needed rapid scalability helped us come to the decision that having our own private cloud infrastructure was just too much of a hassle,” says corporate IT manager Mohamed Saad. 

As a result, K&A migrated its production global IT operations to Iland’s public Enterprise Cloud Services in London. It also implemented a disaster recovery plan with failover to the vendor’s Manchester cloud data centre.