Load Shedding, Remote Working and COVID related Cyber-threats

Load Shedding, Remote Working and COVID related Cyber-threats...

These businesses barely noticed!

Rakesh Sivparsad, Group Head Information Systems & Technology – Nigeria & South Africa, GZ Industries South Africa

“Office 365 was our first port of call for cloud productivity and Turrito were instrumental in driving the migration. When we decided to move all employees to remote working in April, it took a quick meeting and a simple message to all employees and thereafter it was business as usual. Our business-critical servers are hosted in Microsoft Azure, supported by Turrito, and serve our offices in South Africa and Nigeria. Regardless of whether there’s load shedding, remote working conditions, or connectivity problems these servers are up and running at full speed and always accessible. This has been a huge relief in an otherwise turbulent year!”

Chris Botha, Group IT Executive, Famous Brands

“Turrito Networks designed our national Wide Area Network 7 years ago and has kept us up-to-date and resilient ever since. During the chaos of 2020 it’s been incredibly important having a partner that is agile and has our best interests at heart and ensure that our network is always available.”

Phillip Potgieter, Group IT Manager, NOSA

“With Turrito Networks’ help we moved to the Microsoft stack of products many years ago. This was already a highly worthwhile investment but during the last few months of remote working it’s proven itself many times over. Our staff have continued to work from homes or remote sites, on Teams, Email, SharePoint and OneDrive, without missing a beat and without compromising on security or compliance.”

Izak Crafford, IT Infrastructure Manager, Afrimat

“We were always told that some of our rural sites would never get connectivity. What a relief to find Turrito Networks and have them connect all our 45 sites across Southern Africa. In today’s world having robust connectivity is everything and having a partner like Turrito Networks means it’s not only possible, it’s easy.”

Adrian Kemp, Director, Perspex

“Perspex had already embraced the Cloud ‘vision’ before COVID-19 but during the last few months of load shedding and enforced work-from-home policies the Cloud value has skyrocketed. With Turrito’s help our business carries on in all digital respects with negligible impact to productivity or security.”

Pierre Van Eeden, Director of Group Finance, Sebata

“Sebata moved to the Microsoft stack of products years ago but really recognized the full benefits when lockdown hit. Our staff have continued to work from home without hassle and we’ve been able to massively reduce our physical server infrastructure for big savings. With Turrito’s help our business could carry on in all digital respects with negligible impact to productivity or security.”

2020 has delivered surprises, stumbling blocks and barriers to business at an unprecedented rate! Despite these challenges, Turrito customers have managed to carry on working with minimal fuss and in some cases more productively than they ever have. With redundant connectivity, efficient power solutions, always-available applications and security and compliance built-in. The move to Work-from-Home for these customers has been seamless and it hasn’t compromised efficiency in any way.

There are a multitude of challenges in 2022 and your IT and telecoms should be an investment that helps you overcome them. Speak to Turrito to find out how.

To find out how Turrito can help your business achieve maximum resiliency in 2022 contact us now.

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