Pure enhances Taeknizon’s cloud services for UAE businesses

Taeknizon, a fast-growing private cloud services company, has deployed Pure’s infrastructure and Pure as-a-Service to improve the performance and availability of its cloud services for UAE businesses, according to Pure Storage®. Taeknizon can also onboard new customers in less than a half-day and provide powerful ransomware protection to its entire cloud customer base because Pure’s solution includes it as standard.

Taeknizon established its cloud business in 2020 in response to the urgent need for UAE organizations to digitize their operations as a result of the pandemic. Overwhelming demand for these services has driven year-over-year growth of more than 30%, but momentum has been hampered by the need for constant storage upgrades. Taeknizon turned to Pure as-a-Service to keep its growth on track.

“As a cloud provider, we’re strong OpEx advocates, so Pure’s subscription-based storage was a no-brainer,” says Pramod Deshpande, Lead Cloud Architect at Taeknizon. “We only pay for what we use, and we charge customers based on monthly usage — it couldn’t be simpler.”

Taeknizon’s IT team saves an average of 12 hours per week with Pure managing the infrastructure. Freedom from capacity constraints also provides the team with the confidence to constantly seek out new customers without fear of onboarding delays. With Pure, the company can complete cloud migrations for its customers in less than two weeks and onboard new customers in less than a half day.

Pure provides Taeknizon with proven availability and consistent single-millisecond latency for its clients’ most demanding workloads, while features like SafeMode speed recovery and mitigate the effects of ransomware, allowing Taeknizon to offer powerful ransomware protection as a complimentary service to its customers. 

With its new storage model proving highly effective in the UAE, Taeknizon is keen to expand its cloud offering to customers beyond the Emirates. “Before the end of 2023, we plan to establish cloud data centres in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and India with Pure as-a-Service ensuring that our customers always benefit from the latest in high-performance flash storage. Pure will also be the rock-solid foundation on which we will soon introduce our Solution-as-a-Service, IoT, and AI and ML cloud services,” Deshpande said.

“We are proud to support Taeknizon as it empowers regional businesses to achieve their cloud ambitions. Backed by our subscription model, they can confidently build these offerings on market-leading flash technology. This enables them to focus their efforts on innovation and the introduction of new offerings that cater to their customer’s evolving needs,” said Omar Akar, Regional Vice President, Middle East & Emerging Africa, Pure Storage.