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The top 100 international design firm first turned to iland to help deliver business continuity across its private cloud and then again as the company faced rapid growth that required the scalability and efficiency of public cloud.

Originally established in 1964 as an architecture consultancy, K&A has grown to attain international status with operations in the Middle East, Africa, Western Europe and North America. K&A manages complex, high-value projects with aggressive deadlines, making it vital for the company to guarantee the availability of its mission critical systems and meet performance targets.

The IT team 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 that transition, the company 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. "We requested proposals from multiple providers, but the solution that iland presented seemed more logical for our business and a much better fit for us than the others," said Mohamed Saad, corporate IT manager at Khatib & Alami.

After several years, the company's growth began to outpace the efficiency and scalability capabilities of its private cloud. K&A's IT team found themselves spending exorbitant budgetary and personnel resources purchasing, deploying and maintaining hardware to support its infrastructure. K&A migrated its production global IT operations to iland's public Enterprise Cloud Services in London and implemented a solid disaster recovery plan with failover to iland's Manchester cloud data centre.

"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," said Saad. "What's more, iland's public cloud was considerably more economical than using our own equipment. We're getting close to 35-40% cost savings with iland's cloud. iland now hosts all of our mission critical applications, allowing us to focus our IT efforts on activities that drive our business forward."
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