We use the solution for application development and Apsara.

We're focused on the African continent and how the cloud can drive digitization. What we're doing is using the cloud platform and onboarding businesses that need to scale up in as many of their markets as possible. That's our focus, really. We've got one of the largest Greek companies in Africa onboarded on the Alibaba platform and we're hoping that many of the verticals will be onboarded as well. Our focus is not really on the traditional model. Our focus is on how Africans can leverage tech to grow their business. 

We use the solution in our company to deploy our applications on the cloud. Alibaba Cloud is a platform as a service, where it provides you with and allows the customers to develop and then deploy applications using the cloud technology. So, the customer does not need to maintain or manage the underlying platform. It also lets the consumer or the user focus on core business and content delivery rather than software and the underlying IT infrastructure.

We use the solution to run VMs.

We used Alibaba Cloud to install the business one server. According to the contingency plan, we should have a mirror site. We had an on-premise server, and to ensure redundancy, we installed that mirror server as a backup server on Alibaba Cloud with the same instances, configuration, and users. We use TSPlus to connect the users.

Then, we had two servers, one for business, i.e., SAP HANA, and another for workstation installation using RDP, which is Microsoft-based. On the other hand, the HANA server was a Linux server, either SUSE Linux or another Linux variant. Ultimately, we had two servers in Alibaba Cloud to support our operations.

The solution can be deployed on a public cloud or a private cloud.

There are about 100 people using this solution in my organization.

The use cases for Alibaba Cloud include services for virtual machines, desk storage devices, etc., and my job is to provide the services from one integrated system, so users will not go to Alibaba but will come to my company's platform. From the platform, users can ask for many services, whether Alibaba Cloud services, AWS, or Azure.

Alibaba Cloud is a dedicated platform where people can make connections. For example, I have a platform to manage our largest customer where we have machine-to-machine connections with OpenText in India for their SAP access.

We use the product for storage and as a VPN. 

We used it to collect data from medical devices and then for analytics in the cloud using AI bots and so on.

We provide the capability to do some stuff on Alibaba. We provide a portal to some other users so that they can use our portal and provision services on Alibaba. We deploy on Alibaba Cloud. 

AWS has a Terraform template. Similarly, Alibaba has a ROS template. By using the ROS template, you can provision or avail services from Alibaba. We basically use the main infrastructure component, for example, ECS, which is a VM. We also have load balancers and some databases, such as ApsaraDB, MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL.

We primarily use the solution for the access it provides. Users can access it from anywhere, including their homes if they need to.

We moved our internal system from the physical server to an Alibaba Cloud instance. And we use a PPM system or some internal system like Salesforce that we migrated over from the physical server to the cloud instance.