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Eric Gbeho: Hello! Hello!
Ecoband: Good morning. All.
Lenon Motsomotso: We have just a couple more people that we're waiting for, and we'll start.
Ecoband: Just a few minutes, just a few minutes. Thank you all for joining.
Ecoband: Get going here.
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Alexander Sulzberger: Good morning!
Ecoband: Something I don't.
Alexander Sulzberger: Only once.
Ecoband: No, we we have 60. Something attendees register
Ecoband: from pretty much every corner of the globe.
Alexander Sulzberger: That's good.
Ecoband: Including Australia.
Alexander Sulzberger: There we go.
Alexander Sulzberger: Morning, Eric.
Ecoband: Yeah, so.
Alexander Sulzberger: Good, good.
Ecoband: Okay. So we are about to begin.
Ecoband: and as as is customary, I'm going to start off with an ago.
Emmanuel Gbidi: Yeah.
Ecoband: Hello.
Ecoband: okay, for those of you who are unfamiliar. What you just heard is actually a centuries old. Traditional call and response. Here in Ghana. It it's commonly used to open up gatherings, you know, ceremonies meetings and the such. And it signals respect and readiness to engage
Ecoband: And yeah, the ago chant that I say
Ecoband: means listen, or or may I have your attention? And the Amir is the response, and that means we are listening, or you have our attention.
Ecoband: So just to kick off today's session, I'd love to invite you all to a little cultural ghana here, and I'm going to start with the ago. You respond, Ame. We'll do it 3 times, as is customary ago.
Emmanuel Gbidi: I'm a.
Emmanuel Gbidi: Dude.
Velile Mtwa: I'm mad!
Velile Mtwa: May.
Velile Mtwa: Oh, man!
Ecoband: Of applause for everybody here, you know. Thank you really, for that most powerful response for us it's a reminder of how unity and shared purpose drive our collective progress.
Ecoband: I'd like to say good morning, good afternoon or evening.
Ecoband: My name is Kublag, Byho. I'm the commercial director of Echo band.
Ecoband: and on the behalf of Echo Band, our partners at Pex data centers, Adara and Touchnet.
Ecoband: I'd like to say we are honored to welcome you to today's webinar, titled
Ecoband: cloud and digital transformation in Ghana.
Ecoband: How nextgen local cloud solutions drive agility, security and competitive edge.
Ecoband: So again, thank you so much for taking time out of your day this morning to join us. we promise it's going to be a riveting session, and
Ecoband: let me move on here and just tell you a little bit about why we're here
Ecoband: for us partners today marks a milestone for Ghana, for Ghana's digital ecosystem.
Ecoband: Zadara cloud hosted locally at Pex Data Center is the country's 1st public private sovereign cloud solution.
Ecoband: This partnership between Ecoband, Zadara and Pegs delivers world class
Ecoband: low latency cloud services designed for your business needs.
Ecoband: because the solution is hosted in Ghana.
Ecoband: It boasts lightning, fast performance, and is
Ecoband: in full compliance with local data regulations.
Ecoband: Think speed and sovereignty.
Ecoband: Zadara offers a enterprise, grade reliability.
Ecoband: Here I'm talking about a resilient infrastructure with scalable compute
Ecoband: storage and aws compatible apis for hybrid flexibility.
Ecoband: 24, 7, local support. We offer that as well. As a matter of fact, we have, dedicated experts
Ecoband: to help you optimize your cloud environments, whether you're in telecom and ISP or scaling digital services.
Ecoband: This, this session will show how next Gen. Cloud solutions can transform your organization infusing agility security and growth into your digital transformation.
Ecoband: Let me let me introduce the team batting today. And I'll start off with Alexander Alexander Ulzberger. I know a number of you I know a number of you know him.
Ecoband: but he's a co-founder and CTO at Echo Band.
Ecoband: and as a decision maker. He will talk to us about echo band strategic vision for its digital growth. And as decision makers yourself. I'm sure
Ecoband: his comments may resonate with you as as you can.
Ecoband: As you've heard, this is a sovereign cloud solution.
Ecoband: It requires a international grid infrastructure.
Ecoband: and we are delighted to be in partnership with Ghana's longest running data center, Pex.
Ecoband: where the Zadara cloud is currently running. Live
Ecoband: knowledge and experience is everything here, and Walter Van Holton
Ecoband: is the founder of Pex Data Center.
Ecoband: and he will be talking to us about infrastructure's role in Ghana's ecosystem. And and not just only Ghana's ecosystem but really, what's happening at Pecs Data Center and also in relation to the Zadara node.
Ecoband: We also have a Bida, and she's the head of operations at Touchnet, and she's gonna highlight our partnership value.
Ecoband: Over the past few months I've had the opportunity to work with Abida, and I got to tell you her roll up your sleeves coupled with subject matter. Expertise attitude to our partnership has honestly made things quite successful thus far. So we're looking forward to getting some comments from her.
Ecoband: The piece de resistance you will be hearing from Yaron Saudi, and he's a
Ecoband: Zadara solutions architect on cutting edge, cloud and edge. Storage innovations Yaron comes to us with a wealth of experience.
Ecoband: And not only on Zadara, but on cloud solutions and what
Ecoband: they may look like in your organization. So so look out for that one we'll spend a little time there and then.
Ecoband: After that we're going to actually have a QA session.
Ecoband: where, you know you'll get to table some of your questions. Last, but not least, we'll hear from our fearless leader. Here. Echo band! That's Eric Eric Bear, who is our CEO? Who will wrap things up for us with a vote of thanks
Ecoband: also with us. I shouldn't forget. We do have some sales and technical staff members with us. We have
Ecoband: We have Jennifer with us.
Ecoband: We Jennifer Dono? She specializes in our cloud solutions. And she's on this webinar with us. We also have our enterprise sales manager. Haruna patera. He's on the call with us.
Ecoband: and we do have some of our technical staff members Enoch Aqua Samuel Bd, sorry, Manuel Bd with us today, so we would like to encourage you to speak with them. You're more than welcome to chat with them during the course of the webinar. However, though we're looking to schedule, some follow up
Ecoband: one on one meeting, so we can take a a slightly deeper dive into tailored solutions for you and
Ecoband: your respective organizations.
Ecoband: Let's talk about a little housekeeping here. We're we're gonna move quite swiftly through the presence presentation. So we understand everybody's a little pressed for time and would like to respect that. We're gonna save about 25 to 30 min for a live Q&A
Ecoband: as I said, after we've heard from Yare, and at that time you, you're more than welcome to use the raise hand feature to actually ask a question. I would encourage you all to ask questions. No, no question would be shied away from. And we have all of the people online here to answer any questions that you may have, and and no question will be too big, no question too small. So we encourage that
Ecoband: this session is being recorded and so follow up. Email will be passed along to you where we're going to have copies, obviously, of the meeting and additional collateral, including the contact details for both technical and sales staff. So your next steps would be quite clear in terms of should you need to have any further questions answered, or if you need to speak to us in further detail.
Ecoband: So without any further ado, I'm going to pass the mic to Alex Alexander Seulzberger, and he will lead us off on our 1st segment, which is the decision makers perspective. As I said before, Alex ago.
Alexander Sulzberger: Thank you very much. Thank you for the nice introduction and for organizing this webinar today. I'm Alexander Ulzberger. As Copla said, I'm the co-founder, together with Eric Berrow of Ecoban networks. We started the business in 2,001, but prior to that I came to Ghana 1st in 1999.
Alexander Sulzberger: And I was part of a Undp group that evaluated the computerization of a dozen Ghana government institutions. So at the time we assessed how we can put computers into Ghana government institutions. Now, 25 years later.
Alexander Sulzberger: Ghana has developed tremendously. I mean, when we started in 2,001, Eric and I founded echo band networks. We were actually a reseller for satellite solution from an Israeli provider. And again, we are having an Israeli solution. We are launching here together.
Alexander Sulzberger: we have a very close relationship with our Israeli friends, and they are very forward thinking and great when it comes to new technology developments. So back in 2,001, we had only satellite connectivity available. 2,005. With the advent of Sat 3. We became a licensed ISP, and we started
Alexander Sulzberger: to buy international capacity over the sat 3 submarine cable and then retailed it to large institutions, corporate networks with mainly wireless technologies. So from Vsat, we went to radio technology.
Alexander Sulzberger: And then, about 6, 7 years ago, when the 1st metro fiber operators entered the Ghanaian market together with C squared, we embarked in a rollout of last mile fiber, optic connectivity to our customers.
Alexander Sulzberger: Now, in 2,005, we take the next step. We're bringing a sovereign cloud solution to Ghana and help
Alexander Sulzberger: financial corporate institutions to abide by the regulations of not only the Data Protection Agency, but also by Bank of Ghana, to keep
Alexander Sulzberger: Ghanaian data locally in Ghana. So with our fiber optic connectivities to our customers and
Alexander Sulzberger: our data centers, the cable landing stations in in Ghana we are able to provide you with low latency connectivity to a cloud node hosted in the Pex data center and a little word about Pex. We were one of the 1st customers of then busy Internet's launch of rock Africa, which was later acquired by Pex.
Alexander Sulzberger: And we have a very close friendship relationship with Walter Van Holton and his team. And we are really proud that we together be able today to launch this new facility in the state of the art facility of pecs.
Alexander Sulzberger: So I don't want to take too much of the time. Thank you very much for attending today, and I am also looking forward to hear more from our partners, from Touchnet, and from Zadara themselves, to see and explain to you what are the benefits, what are the features, what you can gain by signing up to this solution that we launched today in Ghana. Thank you very much for your time, and I echo.
Ecoband: Wonderful wonderful.
Ecoband: Alex, thank you very much. We appreciate it. I think we're gonna carry on now. And we have Abda from Touchnet, who will speak to us a little bit about the relationship. And Zadar itself.
Ecoband: Abda.
Abyda Aziz: Hi, Kobi, thank you so much, and thank you all for having me. I think it's a great pleasure to be here, and a really big one for Ghana today. So well done to you and the team for putting this together.
Abyda Aziz: I think what's important for us to know that we're here today to to bring the partnership together, but also to maintain this as we say, a marriage, and that's for the years to come.
Abyda Aziz: So thank you very much to everyone that's attending, and it's just a pleasure to be here, and we look forward to the next steps of what this partnership can do for us, and I'd like to share my screen and just give you a little bit more highlight about what we do for Zadara and the next steps for Ghana this year for 2025, and the years to come.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, let me know if you can see my screen.
Ecoband: Yes, we can.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, brilliant. So to introduce myself. My name is, and I am the head of operations for Touchnet and also part of the team that takes sodara and digital transformation into Africa and the Middle East.
Abyda Aziz: Once again, I think. Welcome to everyone. And it's just a pleasure to be here and thank you, Ghana, for having us. What's important about this session for today is just why are we doing this? And what's the the commitment from us
Abyda Aziz: and Zodara to echo band and pikes, and taking this partnership to the next level, and really just enabling the digital transformation and the digitization of Ghana and the future of what that looks like. So just gonna minimize this.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, so let's talk a little bit about Zadara. And what is the mission and acceleration across Africa, and especially in Ghana.
Abyda Aziz: So the mission is really to look at edge cloud adoption, right? And what we brought in the partnership across the global enterprises. And we provide access to reliable and secure and innovative cloud edge technologies. But what does that mean? It means that you have the ability being in Ghana to really be a part of this transformation.
Abyda Aziz: and you have the team like echo band and pikes that are there to support you throughout your journey of transformation, and they have the backing of Touchnet for Africa and the Zadara team.
Abyda Aziz: And we're just here to simplify it. Make it easy. Let you understand what the technology is all about, and how best you can utilize it in your environment to actually give you the best business strategic approach for you to focus on your businesses
Abyda Aziz: and let us do the back end and focusing on how can we digitize your business and give you the best business outcome? So the solution is very much designed for innovative cloud technology. And this is to provide a lot of you know.
Abyda Aziz: the benefit and the values of this is to all business types and all industries, and I'll share more about that in my later slide.
Abyda Aziz: But just to understand what drove this and what are the key representations of the opportunity. As we all know, these big investments made in data centers, especially in Ghana and across the globe, and really very much across Africa and the AI and data analytics around it. So workloads and larger content.
Abyda Aziz: Where does that sit? And the initiative is to really look at how best can we take this across to the closest point of where you are, and we bring this to you in Africa, in your country of choice. So you have the best access. And really it's about the adoption of how does the Telco space? So how does Echoband make this easy for you? And how does the Pikes data center make this accessible to you?
Abyda Aziz: And this is what we're going to talk about a little bit more. But let's really talk a deep dive into what the data, sovereignty and digital transformation policies are for your country. And the 27. And now it's actually 33 African countries. Have the data protection legislation.
Abyda Aziz: we're really driving the initiative to have that data closest to you and closest to your country and closest to the city that you're in. And what does this mean? It means that the legislation says, I don't want my data to reside outside Africa anymore. Don't want it to reside outside Ghana. I actually want it in Ghana, because now I'm able to control the data, and I'm able to adhere to the governmental
Abyda Aziz: requirements to have that data closest to the country, and this really supports the growth of government initiatives, really supports the growth of banking sectors and everything else around the landscapes of just creating more opportunities, mitigating risk and having that data flow across the borders.
Abyda Aziz: Okay.
Abyda Aziz: I think just to put you into perspective of who we are and where we've come from along the years. I'm sure you must be knowing about the 19 sixties, the mainframe Ibm where a lot of it was the big big system and the big server. And this is where it all started right of storing that data into a specific place. And then I think over the years 19 eighties to 2 thousands, we really moved across as a country, as a.
Abyda Aziz: as a global network. And and we thought, Okay, what's best, and then Dell and HP. Came into play, and they really took it to the next step of offering client the opportunities to have these servers in place
Abyda Aziz: where they could store the information, and it really worked well, and they, after public cloud was really introduced. And this is very much a centralized type of database storage, and was accessible to everybody
Abyda Aziz: and the likes and the names of like Aws, Microsoft, Azure, Google Cloud, some of the hyperscalers names that you'd be familiar with. They really took this to the market, and they went big, and it was it was really great
Abyda Aziz: when it was the and a lot of our clientele are moving over to Zadara for the very specific reasons that it doesn't sit in the countries where the data legislation lies, and that's where we come into play. So over the 2,020 s. More into the 2,040 s. We saying, this is the next big thing, you know, it's Edge cloud adoption. It's having the data reside closest to you. And that's what we do best.
Abyda Aziz: And really, seeing the benefit and the adoption across Africa. And now we're proud to say that we are in Ghana with the partnership enabled this to be possible with echo band and the pikes
Abyda Aziz: data centers so
Abyda Aziz: high level. I'd like to introduce you to some of the clients that we have globally and we work with, and that if you can see the many different types of industries. So you have the motor industry here, and it's the Bmws Vws hondas of the world. They in certain countries utilize Zadara.
Abyda Aziz: Okay? And then you have content creators and and the Sdn providers who are really into Zadar as well. In certain countries the likes of Netflix and Samsung. And if you look
Abyda Aziz: at the middle column where it's the banking sector, and right at the bottom, it's the government entities. It's just examples of who our clients are across the Globe and China Bank, Union Bank, Atlanticus. Financial institutions that utilize the Dara. So what does this actually mean? Right at the bottom you can see the State of Colorado, Texas, and there's many others in Africa as well. But we just unfortunately cannot disclose just yet
Abyda Aziz: what does this mean? It means that the system itself has enough compliance to run for a bank and to run for a government. It means that it really is something that can be utilized across all entities and all sectors. So let me explain to you how
Abyda Aziz: and why. So what you're seeing here is a list of compliance and certifications.
Abyda Aziz: and the hipaa compliant is very much something that we have in South Africa or Africa, called the Poppy Act, and the Ue. The Gdpr compliance. It's all about the data privacy. But then we backed by the Soc one and Soc 2, which is
Abyda Aziz: formalized compliance and governance that runs across the banking sector. Okay? And this really covers the security of all the information and the data. And it really does cover how best we are protected and all the data is protected.
Abyda Aziz: If you know a little bit about Iso iso certification, the 27 0 17 and the 27,000 series. Zadara is definitely Iso certified. Okay. And these compliance makes the system and makes Zadara effective enough to provide solutions
Abyda Aziz: to the likes of government sectors, banking sectors, and any other industries that really require the information and the data to have that privacy in place. And the data privacy is relevant.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, some of our partners across and echo band is definitely needs to be on here. But if you can see the different types of data centers and definitely pikes as well.
Abyda Aziz: well, some of our other partners that our solution powered by across the globe.
Abyda Aziz: I'm going to move over to the next slide, maybe talk a little bit about the values of Zadara. And what does this mean for us? And we often say that it's like having your own Mini aws Cloud. But it's actually not me anymore, because Zadara actually has up to 600 nodes across the globe. And I think Yuan will definitely high level highlight that for you in his presentation, and we're proud to say that it's actually now hosted in the Pegs data center.
Abyda Aziz: And it's definitely with the right partners like Echo Band. And it's all the security and all the regulations from the Aws platform Vmware platform where we really put that together. And it's and it's focused on the features and the services from both. And we give you an output like Zadara. So it's very user friendly. And the system is there to to really provide the kind of support and service that
Abyda Aziz: that you know you guys would really benefit from, I think important to know when it comes to an sla with the storage and availability. This is key. Because, you want to know that you're able to access your data at any time, and you want to know that it is in its best position. And you you're backed by something called an sla, that if
Abyda Aziz: for whatever point, or whatever time that you are not able to access it. There's something that you will get back in return from Zadara because the sla is not maintained and touch word until today. We've never really had that issue that way. Zadara has not met the Sla based on relationships and partnerships that we hold with the likes of pikes, data centers.
Abyda Aziz: Okay? So if I, if I go into a little bit of an sla, so aws I like to do the comparison, but sometimes I don't. But.
Ecoband: Okay, I think we've lost some. Okay.
Ecoband: there you go. Yeah, there you go. We can.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. So where did you last get me at the Sla.
Ecoband: Yes, right there.
Abyda Aziz: Okay.
Abyda Aziz: perfect. So I was, I was talking about a comparison with Aws and the 99.9 9% sla that aws provides to the clientele across the globe. We proud to say that we provide a 99.9 9% sla on availability on the storage. What does this mean that for 99.9 9% of the time you would have access to the data
Abyda Aziz: and to whatever information that you have stored in the cloud. And this is all thanks to our fabulous relationship
Abyda Aziz: with the Pikes data center where you are hosted or where the cloud node is hosted, and our partnership with the Echo Band team who supports this node and supports all the clients in Ghana.
Abyda Aziz: I think from a flexibility perspective. It's very important to understand that from a chassis swap out the system itself really allows for compatibility.
Abyda Aziz: and it allows, for you know, how can we tune it better to fit the clients expectations. And that's what it's about. It's about looking at. What are the clients needs, and how best can we customize it to ensure that the client you guys, are actually taken into consideration when providing you with a service like cloud or storage elements.
Abyda Aziz: There's something called the Zadara Vpsa, and this just allows for virtual private storage arrays, and and your run will definitely give you more details on this from a technical perspective. But what it allows for is to have you know, multiple
Abyda Aziz: different customers on the virtual private storage area, and one will never understand what's going on with the next. We often use the comparison between the Coke and Pepsi, but you are able to have the likes of Coca-cola and Pepsi on the same dpsa, and there's 0 noise. One will never be able to understand or know of the other.
Abyda Aziz: And these are just some of the values that Zadara offers, and just where we're heading in terms of the services we'd like to provide into Africa and definitely with Ghana and our our Ghanaian partnerships. So just a little bit more high level. If we do a comparison again, some of you might know of the Aws S. 3 buckets.
Abyda Aziz: while Zadara has been awarded to be the best alternative to the Aws S. 3 buckets from a Z storage element. So what does this mean? It means I can either utilize
Abyda Aziz: aws, s. 3. That does not sit in in Accra in a data center, or you know, in in a specific country that you would require. But or I can use the data that's sitting currently in the data center that has the data, privacy, legislation met
Abyda Aziz: and also fairly, very affordable. And they've also been named and awarded the storage leaders over pure storage hps and many, many more. So it's really well recognized. And I think it's time for Africa now where we really have to drive this innovative way of accessing the cloud and really being a part of the transformation.
Abyda Aziz: a high level. I'd like to take you through some of the services that Zadara Portal offers. And, as you can see, the platform is rather user, friendly, and with saying that you know, it's very important to understand. Adoption is not something that's always easy. But hence you have the relationship with echo band and pikes, data centers and ourselves with the Zadara team.
Abyda Aziz: So that gives you a full support of enabling you to get there. So we'd really like you to focus on what's your business initiatives and your business strategies, and we can assist you in how to get digitized and digitalize
Abyda Aziz: your platforms. And it's all about the skilled enablement, because it's something that the world is driving to. Everyone's talking about AI, everyone's talking about digital transformation. And sometimes, we're trying to catch up. And what's happening, you know. And at this point. I think it's better to be there and ahead of the game than just be in a catch up situation. And I think this is where the value comes in from these kind of partnerships that
Abyda Aziz: you really are offered a full on skilled enablement program, where we train the trainer where we afford you the time and the and the effort put in from both sides, from the customer side and from echo, band, and touchnet. To say, This is the solutions we offer?
Abyda Aziz: How do you adopt it in your environment? And we provide you with multiple training sectors in how do you get there? How do you utilize it? What makes it easy for adoption which ways to go, and from the simple stuff to the very complicated things? And it's really that support, and knowing that you have someone at home that you can call a 24 by 7 standby, and they're there to support you.
Abyda Aziz: and if they can't come right with. Whatever the requirements are, they're happy to contact Touchnet, based in South Africa, and we would then provide that support. And if not, we go all the way to our teams in either Us. Israel, where they provide the support. So it's a well connected, supported environment that really offers you
Abyda Aziz: a full on transformed service delivery, where you actually feeling like you have someone you can call. You don't have to sit on a call center.
Abyda Aziz: And with that in mind the system is very much accessible from an edge perspective. You have the elastic vms and compute side. We offer the storage and the block storage. There's the Vpc. Which is the virtual. Private clouds also have the options of the load balance, and this all sits in our compute, and everything is very much compatible from an Ec 2. Perspective on the Apis, and really can integrate into whatever other platforms.
Abyda Aziz: That you have going on in your current environment. And we can look at that. It's easily accessible and very much simplified from an aggregation. And and
Abyda Aziz: just getting you there in terms of integration from a storage perspective. We offer 3 simple storage platforms and and services, which is a block storage file storage, and definitely the object storage mentioned to you as a 24 by 7 support. And yeah, we just there to make sure that you are comfortable with how you'd like to go forward and
Abyda Aziz: Echo Bank team is waiting for you. 24 by 7. You have the pikes data centers there. You have the likes of Touchnet, and it's a very much enterprise grade performance and the security you can. You just pay only for what you utilize. And you're getting an expert, fully managed solution. That's 24 by 7, 3, 65 days a week, very much proactive. And we offer seamless migration, and really anything that you require on your 1st step to the last step.
Abyda Aziz: It's it's given to you. Okay?
Abyda Aziz: And it's just quick comparison around where we see ourselves in terms of Zatara, we find ourselves very affordable, and having the ability for predictable cost. I think that's key. You're not just getting slammed with a bull at the end of the month there is no egress or ingress charges because it's a very much solution that's based in a data center in Accra, you're able to even access it viatu and plug into the data center at pikes.
Abyda Aziz: and then just cross, connect all the to the node itself, and you have directly to access. All the support is included.
Abyda Aziz: There's no additional cost for that. And and I'm sure the the Echo Band team will take you through the support structure. That's a fully featured enterprise solution, complete opex model and all the technical support and even from a commercial aspect, is definitely included.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, high level on what the platform offers. It's a visualized dashboard, automated reporting simple to use. If you are a partner or an ISP, because I know there's many isps here today. And you have multiple clients under you that you also managing. Then you will get this dashboard and you're able to see utilization per every client that you have. So imagine having something as simple as one platform.
Abyda Aziz: and you're able to manage the entire all of your customers out of the.
Ecoband: Think we lost the little voice on Apta. There, sure, she'll be back momentarily.
Abyda Aziz: Or include any tab.
Ecoband: There you go. Go ahead.
Ecoband: Let's see whether we can get her back.
Ecoband: Clearly Abda needs Echo band in essay.
Ecoband: We're just seeing whether we can get Apto back, and then we'll continue.
Abyda Aziz: Hi, everyone! I'm back sorry about that. Can you hear me now?
Ecoband: Yes, we can go ahead.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, I think it's we go to
Abyda Aziz: just share the last screen, and I'm happy to
Abyda Aziz: just confirmed you lost me here right at the one stop shop of monitoring.
Ecoband: Yes, yes, that's it.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, brilliant. So the last part of this was just to inform you that I know there's many isps that are here today. As part of echo bands and pikes invitees. And just imagine having a very transformed one simple place where you are able to manage all your customers. So if you're an ISP, if your service provider in Ghana, you won't just have one customer, you'd have multiple customers under you.
Abyda Aziz: So, having the ability to have a visualized dashboard that talks to a percentage of of resource. Utilization per customer is what the simple solution offers, and
Ecoband: Okay, we're we're we're gonna get Abda back.
Ecoband: So she can conclude.
Abyda Aziz: Apologies again, but I think I'm happy to now. Hand over to your ron and sorry for losing me. There, guys.
Abyda Aziz: thank you so much, Kub.
Ecoband: Thanks a bunch that there's a lot of great information there for us to
Ecoband: unpack and mull over just before we hand over to Yaren
Ecoband: couple of things that you mentioned there, that I'm sure people would like to talk to us at greater detail in greater detail about, and remember that we are available.
Ecoband: To discuss any questions or concerns that you may have later later on. So of course just keep in mind that everything with Zadara is backed by Sla.
Ecoband: the node also is part of a 600 node network global. We are
Ecoband: using quite compliant systems. And here I'm talking about the iso certification especially where data privacy is concerned. And of course, your information is housed locally.
Ecoband: and it's manned by a team of not only echo band staff members, but you also have your data sitting inside the Packs data center. Which, of course, as I said before, is the longest lasting or running data center in Ghana at this point
Ecoband: for the data centers. And sorry Isps
Ecoband: Carrier Group. You have the ability to, as Abda mentioned, to manage more than one customer
Ecoband: at a time. The pricing
Ecoband: is quite good, and we'll get into that in greater detail.
Ecoband: But before I go any further, actually, why don't we just move on with Yaron? And yeah, Jaron seder. And he'll take us through
Ecoband: the more technical aspect of it. Thank you very much. Abda Yaran. Go ahead.
Yaron Sadeh: Yeah, thank you, everybody, and thank you so much for having me the obvious question, can you see my screen.
Ecoband: Yes, yes, we can.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay, all right.
Yaron Sadeh: Well, I've had.
Yaron Sadeh: I will try to dig a little bit in into the technology that lies under the hood in in our solution.
Yaron Sadeh: Am.
Yaron Sadeh: so what we are delivering is a stack of resources
Yaron Sadeh: that provide all the essential or most of the essential cloud services in the edge. Okay, so we can deliver any type of storage from our Z compute platform. We can deliver, compute.
Yaron Sadeh: Let me move this one so you can see that we can deliver, also compute and Gpus, and we'll get to that later on. And we also deliver all the cloud core networking essentials. So you have a fully functional cloud in the edge, having it's like working with the cloud. But on Prem or at the service provider, very close to your location.
Yaron Sadeh: I said. We are 14 years a company, and already it says 5. But we are reaching 600
Yaron Sadeh: systems deployed around the world
Yaron Sadeh: headquarters located in Irvine, California, a developer center in Irvine and in Tel Aviv, M.
Yaron Sadeh: A little bit about the use cases. So we are not competing anyone. We, we really think that we have our own fit. And our fit is basically look into alternative for vmware, which is very hard these days. It can go side by side. We don't need to reply, to replace all at once
Yaron Sadeh: alternative for aws or any hyper. A cloud, hyperscale cloud provider.
Yaron Sadeh: Our system can also
Yaron Sadeh: be used for backup called for target as a backup like primary or secondary backup copy. And of course, as a Dr. Cold or hot. Dr. Depends on customers requirement
Yaron Sadeh: customer who are looking towards hybrid leave, let's say, legacy systems and application on Prem on traditional hardware and and platform, but looking also to modernize themselves into the cloud. So we can provide this also.
Yaron Sadeh: Our one of our good fits is for Msps Msps, that have a lot of small customer. That they are serving lots of small customers. Our system is multi tenancy fully multi tenancy, and it can be used for to support
Yaron Sadeh: many small customer underneath. And of course the hot topic is sovereign. AI, and this is the something that we reach at the end of
Yaron Sadeh: my presentation.
Yaron Sadeh: You saw this and this also. So we can skip that a little a little bit about the technology.
Yaron Sadeh: So our system is fully feature. All the features that we have are available in any deployment don't matter. The scale of the deployment okay, the solution is fully elastic. It can grow, it can shrink, it can be reconfigured
Yaron Sadeh: according to
Yaron Sadeh: the owner needs in any particular time, and I'll show you how it's done, and our system is fully managed. Remotely, we have 2 support team. Basically, one is a support team that support like 24, 7, break and fix any issue with the system. You just open a ticket and somebody from support. It's a follow, the sun team. They will
Yaron Sadeh: reach back and assist you in resolve. And another team that we have is a dev operations, teams that can help you with configuration with if you don't know how to do something, or you have any questions of how to do something they can help you with that. So the system is fully managed and supported by us by our partners, and the, of course, the Msp. Himself.
Yaron Sadeh: The system can be deployed anywhere. So we have deployment in on prem customers. We have deployment in collocation for customers. We have deployment at Msps data centers, and we are also running few clouds as a public cloud that we are managing. So if let's say, you have a customer that
Yaron Sadeh: running on the system at Ecobent. But he has a branch, let's say, in Germany
Yaron Sadeh: we can create for him an environment on our public cloud in Germany. It will have the same look and feel
Yaron Sadeh: of the system that he knows from the one he's running on on ecobent system.
Yaron Sadeh: so it can be deployed anywhere and in any scale.
Yaron Sadeh: I think this is the most technical slide. And the basically can explain how we do so.
Yaron Sadeh: So, as said, we are delivering grid of resources. This grid is based on commodity hardware. Basically, we have
Yaron Sadeh: nodes that call storage nodes. They are providing the storage to the cloud.
Yaron Sadeh: and we have compute nodes. Those are providing the resources like Vcpus and RAM for the Vm that are, we are running.
Yaron Sadeh: We have all connected to vast data switches. It's an Nvidia traditionally, Mellanox data switches.
Yaron Sadeh: and with a back end of 100 gig. And from those 2 switches or more
Yaron Sadeh: we are connecting to the to the customers network. So this is the uplink.
Yaron Sadeh: We also have some kind of a backdoor for our support, and Ops team down here. To access the system
Yaron Sadeh: only. We have no access to the data, only to the to the management ports, the Ipmi of all the devices within the system within the cloud.
Yaron Sadeh: This is to just to check, ensure the health of the system. We getting alerts from the system through this channel. And we use this this path in order to upgrade the system. Of course, everything is coordinated with the service provider or the system owner.
Yaron Sadeh: Now the system can grow in any direction. So let's say, we need more
Yaron Sadeh: storage resources. We can add more storage node. If we need more resources to satisfy the compute cloud, we can add more compute nodes. Everything is done
Yaron Sadeh: without any disruption to the customer activity.
Yaron Sadeh: If we need more ports again in the switches in the data switches
Yaron Sadeh: just adding more switches in a spinal lift configuration.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay, so this is how we do it. We can grow. We can shrink. We can replace this, we can configure something in the system. We can shred it and configure something else. Everything is like like a Lego blocks. Basically.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay. Now we serving 2 main services. So
Yaron Sadeh: the 1st is a disease storage capability. So for the storage we can support block and file and also object storage.
Yaron Sadeh: We can support any type of a media like a fast Ssds, Hdds and Nvme. If needed.
Yaron Sadeh: and we support any protocol connectivity protocol like file sharing cifs, Nfs, fiber channel and Isc.
Yaron Sadeh: we support all let's say, storage vendor functionality like a thin provisioning and data reductions and snapshots and clone and remote replication. All is fully featured
Yaron Sadeh: in our system, and all is available in the same price.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay?
Yaron Sadeh: And
Yaron Sadeh: talking about object storage. So we have an object storage that we can create with a multi-tenancy in it. So basically, we create one big object storage with account within.
Yaron Sadeh: And this object storage can be protected by a two-way or three-way erasure coding redundancy.
Yaron Sadeh: It supports aws S. 3 or openstack. Swift interfaces depends on your needs.
Yaron Sadeh: and again I said it. It can be used for any object storage like use cases like gathering log files unstructured data target as backup to the Vm. We can use it for for all use cases like any other s. 3. System
Yaron Sadeh: M.
Yaron Sadeh: As for compute.
Yaron Sadeh: So we comp we, we provide services of like if we compare to aws. So all the Vm functionality like is easy to like
Yaron Sadeh: images. The the system comes with building images, and you can bring your own images. For Vm, we have the
Yaron Sadeh: core networking services within. So we support Vpcs like. And also we can. We can work in Dvs mode. Dvs mode means that we we're working layer 2 directly to your let's say Home Office network. So the vms that we are creating will be part of your network. In that case we will have no
Yaron Sadeh: core services, like, you know, Dns and the Vpcs and
Yaron Sadeh: elastic Ips and stuff. But though it depends on the use case, so we can work also in Dvs mode
Yaron Sadeh: in terms of storage. We provide ebs like to the Vm. The ebs is coming from our storage that we just review and we can use again. Here we can create ebs in SSD or HDD media.
Yaron Sadeh: And of course, providing all core necessary networking stuff like elastic elastic load, balancer, application, logo, load, balancer out of scaling group. All is fully compatible in our system.
Yaron Sadeh: Most interesting interesting thing is that we provide also Gpu's as a service, so you can create a Vm with a Gpu attached to it
Yaron Sadeh: as a service.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay? And then we can run AI, and we'll discuss it at the end. Of course, of all security measures like security groups like
Yaron Sadeh: basically like a firewall.
Yaron Sadeh: And also, we, supporting all needs to protect the vm, so we can create local or remote snapshots for the vm. Local snapshots are part of the ebs itself, and it will resign on our storage. Locally remote snapshots are going to our object storage whenever it is so it could be locally. It could be remote. It could be even in another continent.
Yaron Sadeh: Typically use cases. So again, customer that wants to go in in to the hype to the cloud by by, but can't because of regulation, because of pricing customer that are looking to go back from Cloud back home to to on Prem, but still wants to work in the cloud model of pay. As you use
Yaron Sadeh: oops in terms sorry in terms of vm images. So we have a lot of it
Yaron Sadeh: images or instances families with a nice ratio between RAM and cpus, and of course we also support here at the bottom
Yaron Sadeh: vms. With Gpu's attached to end of them. Currently, we are using Nvidia, L. 4 and L. 4 Ts. With 1, 2, or 4 gpus attached to the C to the Vm. Itself.
Yaron Sadeh: A a word about sovereign AI sovereign AI is a term that was kind of I don't know.
Yaron Sadeh: was set by Nvidia CEO saying that customer wants to do AI, but they want to do it at home without using the hyperscale cloud providers capability. So if you look on
Yaron Sadeh: AI requirements. So we need the the Llm, the large language model. We need the vector database.
Yaron Sadeh: We need an entire platform of software. We need an entire stack of software that needs to run somewhere.
Yaron Sadeh: Now.
Yaron Sadeh: the thing is that either you as a customer, if you want to analyze your data with AI, you need to upload all your data to the hyper scale cloud provider where they have the capability to analyze it.
Yaron Sadeh: Or you need to open a vector for those capabilities into your own data. Both cases are not
Yaron Sadeh: that secure and and really acceptable about
Yaron Sadeh: from from Ciso sites side mainly. Now think of it that everything that you need in software stack terms
Yaron Sadeh: to run an AI can run on the Zadara underlining infrastructure. So we provide the compute. We provide the Kubernetes, and we provide the gpus for compute. We provide the storage for both the large sets of data that you want to analyze for the databases for the outcome of those analysis. And also we provide the networking for it.
Yaron Sadeh: Now, a nice use case that we did. We use it internally with our support team. We have a lot of support ticket. We have a lot of internal repository. We don't want to upload it to the cloud. So we create a system.
Yaron Sadeh: an AI system that is running and learning our own support ticket and our own support. data repository like confluence, Atlassian. All our guides everything is there. So now think of it, that if you want to open a call
Yaron Sadeh: and or open a ticket.
Yaron Sadeh: the the guy in the support team can in open text. Just ask, do we know about any other issues with that system?
Yaron Sadeh: Okay, it doesn't need to go to Zendesk and start looking for it.
Yaron Sadeh: Everything is there.
Yaron Sadeh: So another thing that we do with it. We've wrapped everything with terraform scripting. So
Yaron Sadeh: if this is the use case that you are looking for. We can deploy it for you.
Yaron Sadeh: Using terraform scripting. We can deploy it in a matter of hours.
Yaron Sadeh: basically deploy for you. An AI solution automatically on our platform in ecubend.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay? And you start analyzing your own data with AI in a matter of hours.
Yaron Sadeh: So if this is something of an interest, please ping me. And then we can
Yaron Sadeh: kind of arrange an internal call and and discuss it. So this is basically all from my end.
Yaron Sadeh: And I'm here for any questions.
Yaron Sadeh: Oops!
Yaron Sadeh: Hello.
Ecoband: Hello.
Ecoband: Yeah. Yarin.
Yaron Sadeh: Yeah, for a minute I will tell you. I thought.
Ecoband: I'm going to speak to myself.
Ecoband: We're with you, we're with you, we're with you.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay.
Ecoband: So listen. Thanks. Thanks. So much for that deep dive into a Zadara. I'm sure there'll be a number of questions, if not now, definitely later, and it's good to know that we have you as a subject matter expert to lean on
Ecoband: at this point we were going to speak with
Ecoband: with Balta, Walter. Unfortunately, he's not able to be with us, so we're gonna move along now and would like to open up the discussion for a Q&A session. So
Ecoband: if you have any questions and I do encourage you to ask questions. Nothing is again is too simple or too complicated. We'll do our best here to answer your questions for you.
Ecoband: So let's take a look.
Ecoband: Any questions.
Ecoband: And don't forget to raise your hands. Should you need to. Ask a question.
Abyda Aziz: Bobby. I see there's 1 question on the chat.
Ecoband: Exactly.
Ecoband: Yes, let's take a look. Here.
Yaron Sadeh: Yeah, I will take it. If I can share again.
Abyda Aziz: From Ernest.
Ecoband: Go right ahead!
Yaron Sadeh: Yeah, one second.
Yaron Sadeh: yeah, okay, so everything in the system is fully redundant.
Yaron Sadeh: Basically, when we create, let's say, you remember that we we spoke about vpsa virtual private storage array. So we creating a virtual storage array when we are taking resources
Yaron Sadeh: from 2 separate storage node in the cluster. So let's say, I'm gonna create. Now, a vpsa with 6 drives.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay, so I will create a Vm as a controller for that storage array. Taking resources, vram and cpus. From this storage node
Yaron Sadeh: will create another like a ha, a controller taking resources out of the another storage node in the grid, and then I will take 3 disks from here and 3 disks from another storage node, mirror them together. So basically, if I have a storage, no, a failed storage node system will continue working.
Yaron Sadeh: This is in terms of storage. It's fully redundant.
Yaron Sadeh: same as compute. If a compute, when you create a Vm.
Yaron Sadeh: There is a tick there that you said, if it's in HA. Or not. So if it's running on one compute node.
Yaron Sadeh: and these compute nodes is fail, it will pop up on another compute node.
Yaron Sadeh: Okay? Same as for the other networking switches, everything is fully redundant in the system.
Yaron Sadeh: Does that answer your question?
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Hi, good morning. And my name is Ernest.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Thank you very much for the explanation. My question is essentially had to do with the
Ernest Ofosu Addo: data center itself. Because, we dealing with a global perspective of solutions that
Ernest Ofosu Addo: is being delivered from within, Ghana Accra.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: assuming that something happens and a crash shuts down.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Are we still going to achieve the 99.9 9% in terms of the sle?
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Because my understanding with this presentation is that
Ernest Ofosu Addo: we are bringing the cloud closer to the Ghanaian market.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: so that instead of sending traffic and data all the way to the Internet.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: the Coban is here to bring it closer to the Ghanaian market, which is a very good initiative.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: but we are also mindful of the fact that
Ernest Ofosu Addo: how is the Kuban data center structured in terms of redundancy
Ernest Ofosu Addo: and achieving the 99.9 7, because technically
Ernest Ofosu Addo: an sla of 99.9 9 means that there is more than one connectivity and more than one data center scattered across the Ghanaian or Accra scope that we are dealing with.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: just so that we can, we can be sure that
Ernest Ofosu Addo: A crash shuts down.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: There's another service that is running in Accra, and the services are still going to be available in Ghana and in Accra.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Thank you.
Abyda Aziz: Can I take this one on behalf of Oisvata? Here.
Ecoband: Go go right ahead, up.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, thank you so much for your question. Is it, Emmanuel?
Ecoband: It's early.
Yaron Sadeh: Earnest.
Abyda Aziz: Ernest apologies. Ernest, thank you so much. I think, on behalf of firstly bikes definitely, the data center does offer a percentage of sla. And this adds to the value of keeping to the 99.9 9% sla. There is plans in place to have the second
Abyda Aziz: node for Ghana.
Abyda Aziz: and definitely looking at an alternative data center that is within 15 kilometer or above 15 kilometer ridges from where the Pikes data center is. And this would be the redundant. So there is plans on definitely looking at the redundant data center from a perspective of the Sla kept from the data center perspective, but also know that echo band has multiple links and multiple different
Abyda Aziz: link
Abyda Aziz: subscriptions into the node itself. So this allows for failover and ha for at any time. So if the 1st uplink does fail, there are 3 to 4 current links in that one specific node.
Abyda Aziz: so that is a second additional or added value to maintaining the data, the sla of 99.9 9%. And lastly, as your ron mentioned, everything is set up in ha from a node perspective.
Abyda Aziz: So having the ability to even the the dual switching from a multiple switching, we have on the initial setup and on the rack and switching environment. There's ha! And there's also there's Aruba, and there's the HP. So from the design perspective of Zadara Setup. Yes, it's definitely built and and set up for high availability and redundancy
Abyda Aziz: from a data center perspective, there's definitely an sla that backs whether it's the power or anything that's added value to holding that node within an sla. And then there's Echo Band, who is basically responsible for
Abyda Aziz: having the ability to keep that note up and up and running with multiple uplinks. Okay? And their plans currently being discussed for additional
Abyda Aziz: additional nodes within Ghana as well. I hope that answers your question.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Yes, please. Thank you very much.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: My second question is that in this discussion we have not been previewed to pricing, because
Ernest Ofosu Addo: with all the technical and sales marketing presentations. Is there anything for us to take home to discuss with management in terms of pricing.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: you know, for instance, if you go to aws, there's a calculator that you can easily inject the the components that you want to use, and per month per hour per minute. You immediately know how much is going to cost.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: I want to know if Zandera has something like that for us to take them to management.
Abyda Aziz: Can I take that one.
Ecoband: Yes, you cannot.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, brilliant, or anyone else welcome to as well. So I think if you ever heard your question correctly, you asked. Are there any documentation that we will provide, I think, the 1st part of that question is definitely yes, Kobe cobbla. And the team will definitely share out all the presentations we've done today. So you're able to take this through to your teams and management
Abyda Aziz: team and anybody else that requires it.
Abyda Aziz: even from a client's perspective. And
Abyda Aziz: is this something that we and
Abyda Aziz: utilize to manage the utilization and cost?
Abyda Aziz: Is that your sentiment, Emmanuel? Did I get you safe.
Abyda Aziz: Can you hear me.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Yes, I can hear you.
Ecoband: Okay. Good.
Abyda Aziz: Okay. Brilliant.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: You are breaking, you are breaking midway. So for me. I didn't get a full part of your explanation.
Abyda Aziz: It was just was your second question about the about how much you're able to spend, or if you're allocating resources to a specific value
Abyda Aziz: around the resources. And the value. Is that correct, can you? How can you?
Abyda Aziz: Am I right in saying that? Or is it something else.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Yes, that's correct. That's the second part.
Abyda Aziz: Okay, brilliant. So there's 2 ways of looking at it. Right? You are allocated resources on the system, and obviously we'll train every single partner here. On how to utilize the system. What you're welcome to do is to say it's and I'm giving this just as an example. If your clients, or the clients only have a
Abyda Aziz: a spend or a cost to to put towards the cloud. And it's only, let's say, $500.
Abyda Aziz: So you're able to receive resources to the value of $500. And if it exceeds that $500, then we're able to give you notifications at 75% utilization, saying, firstly, you allocated resource to the value of $500 as an example, you had 70% utilization. Okay, Mr. Customer, okay, manual, do you want to top up? Does your customer require top up? So that's a way of just maintaining
Abyda Aziz: expenditure on the type of resources you allocated for a specific budget. Okay, that's 1 way of looking at it. The other is the notifications that are put into the system is a real value. Add, because it now allows you to manage? At what percent of your resources are you utilizing? Or is your customer utilizing? And what does that cost?
Abyda Aziz: So when you reach to like a 75 or 80% or 90% of that cost, you're now able to manage it and make a decision. Should I allocate more resources. This is how much it's going to cost me, you know. Should I allocate or take away resources and my expenditure for next month's going to be less. Maybe I should just so deduct some of the resources. So I'm not spending so much so this in this way. You're able to manage your cost versus how much of resources you allocated.
Abyda Aziz: This is how you manage your budgets
Abyda Aziz: towards every single customer. Everything is via utilization, and it's on reporting, and it's live so you can even go in at any time. You have access as the customer, as an ISP to go in and see what your resources you're using and how much it's costing you at that point in time. And I think that's important. And I hope that answers your question.
Ernest Ofosu Addo: Yes, thank you very much.
Ecoband: Okay, fair. Thanks a lot for that
Ecoband: informative. Answer there, we do have a couple more questions once from Solomon Arthur, and he's asking how secure is your infrastructure with regards to cyber security. And I'll just throw this out to the team once again.
Yaron Sadeh: So I I think you saw the slide from Abida. Regarding our compliance with the regulations. The system is fully secure in terms of
Yaron Sadeh: in in terms of the infrastructure. You cannot access the system, even not from the back door, because of firewall and stuff for your vmware. Of course you need to protect your own. It's the same as aws or any hyper scale hyper scale cloud provider. If you you will deploy a Vm. And not protected with Security group, or, let's say, a virtual firewall on the Vpc. Then it's exposed to the Internet.
Yaron Sadeh: and it won't be secure. You need to deploy your own security mechanism, a. A on your environment, on your Vpcs.
Abyda Aziz: I'd like to add to what your Ron is saying. The system is also very much managed from a data, legislation and data privacy, legislation, and it meets all that criteria so the physical system itself that sits in Ghana is managed by a 40 gate firewall
Abyda Aziz: and and all the certifications and compliance and governance that's that that actually cost a lot of money to renew annually. This really secures it from a data privacy Protection Act.
Abyda Aziz: and from having all the legislations around protecting the data and protecting the customer. So from a cyber security and Data Information Protection Act, I think the legislations around. Soc, one, Soc, 2, Iso certifications, data, privacy, legislation. And I will share a link that you can read more about this. But this what secures us from a
Abyda Aziz: an aspect of any interference with the system itself. And what the how is the data protected? So the legislation it would, is what really empowers us to be compliant for having your data secure and protected, and the firewall and the physical infrastructure is a second backing to what the system is protected from a physical infrastructure. Okay, so nothing will come in or out without tapping into that firewall.
Ecoband: Okay. Is Bida done by the are you done with the question?
Ecoband: With the answer.
Abyda Aziz: Definitely. Yeah, I just hope, we answered correctly to Solomon.
Ecoband: Yes, I'm sure I'd I'd also like to let everybody know that we do have
Ecoband: our technical and commercial staff here. So we can reach out to them. Should you have any other questions that you want to take offline? Regarding your own solutions, we do have a couple more questions, and we have one from Enoch aqua and his question is, is the Dara responsible for licensing for the Vps services in terms of Microsoft based
Ecoband: a Bida. I'm I'm sorry I'm gonna throw that to you one more time.
Abyda Aziz: No problem so from a licensing based on the Microsoft.
Abyda Aziz: It's almost like, bring your own license. So the the client will have to in in. I think Microsoft is the only licensing required from a cloud perspective, and the client will definitely or if the offerings from echo band offers you supply licensing. It's almost like, bring your own into the solution just from a Microsoft perspective.
Abyda Aziz: Okay? So either you can reach out to the sales team at Ecoband for any of the hosting licenses, and they would provide you with that. Or if you, as a customer, has a license already, then you're able to utilize that from a Linux space or any other OS space. The requirements if there's no licensing required, so then you won't need a a licensing. I think it's just Microsoft.
Abyda Aziz: and that would be part of the offering that Echo band team as a service provider will offer you, and that can be packaged into an offering with the Vpsa so license with Vpsa.
Ecoband: Super. Thank you very much.
Ecoband: Yes, so in terms of the recording, we will be distributing that a little bit later, or after this this
Ecoband: webinar, we do have one question. And I'd like to maybe throw this out to the Echo band team. And the question is, how do people get started?
Ecoband: How do we get people to adopt digitization in a more expedient fashion? And maybe I can throw that one out to Eric.
Eric Gbeho: Oh, sure, sure.
Eric Gbeho: Okay. Well, in terms of echo band. We'd like to make the the adoption
Eric Gbeho: faster. And for this digital transformation.
Eric Gbeho: We, as echo band, have been in business for over 23 years. We understand our clients, and we can offer the best type of advice on how to move into the cloud at no cost.
Eric Gbeho: Cloud made affordable packages to suit clients. Needs exist.
Ecoband: Wonderful thing.
Ecoband: So can you.
Eric Gbeho: Respect of that. Just want to.
Ecoband: To that as Eric was saying, we we we.
Eric Gbeho: Dreams.
Ecoband: Solutions here in Ghana.
Eric Gbeho: For a number of years.
Ecoband: Now, and they've been connected.
Eric Gbeho: Activity solutions. So we're.
Ecoband: 5.
Eric Gbeho: Familiar with either.
Ecoband: Analysis, for also see execution and handover of projects.
Eric Gbeho: It wouldn't be.
Ecoband: The.
Eric Gbeho: That much different.
Ecoband: Rent.
Eric Gbeho: Or.
Ecoband: As a Dara type solution.
Eric Gbeho: What we would like to do, though, is to obviously.
Ecoband: Chat, to.
Eric Gbeho: Any.
Ecoband: Specific potential customer. In order to better understand exactly what their objectives are. So we'll be able to better target the solution for you once again, and and I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm pitching. We do have. Jennifer Dono here. we do have
Ecoband: Haruna patera Enterprise sales manager. And actually, Vanessa, who's with Pax data center as well. So between the 3 of us or 4 of us, we'll be more than happy to take a look at your particular use case. And pull up something for you, including pricing. Yeah.
Abyda Aziz: Kobe, I just wanna check with anyone. If there's any questions around the skills development and skills enablement programs. If anybody wants to get on board and start the training. We have a list of training that we offer, and we're happy to schedule.
Ecoband: So just before we wrap up.
Ecoband: I'd like to thank everybody for taking the time to join us this morning. It's been most enjoyable and informative session. And oh, I think we have one more question.
Ecoband: Alright, and we will. Solomon will get back to you on that. We're a little strapped for time, but again would like to thank everybody. We will, we will.
Ecoband: We're going to wrap up the session right now, and we're gonna have Eric say a few words as a vote of thanks.
Eric Gbeho: Okay? Before we close. Let's remember why, today matters.
Eric Gbeho: Zarata Cloud, Zadara. Excuse me, cloud up. Hex isn't just another solution.
Eric Gbeho: It's Ghana's 1st sovereign cloud built to give you speed, scalability, and control without compromising security or compliance.
Eric Gbeho: Whether you're exploring hybrid frameworks, optimizing costs or future proofing operations.
Eric Gbeho: The Echo Band and Zadara team is ready to help.
Eric Gbeho: So for the next steps.
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