Wragby Business Solutions, indigenous technology integrator, says it is well positioned to support enterprise applications migrations in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by GDP. Gbenga Iluyemi, chief executive officer of the company, who made this declaration at a media briefing in Lagos, weekend, said United States (US) – based technology company, Microsoft has announced plans to cut-off extended support for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003R on July 14, 2015, as a part of its normal support lifecycle policies.
According to him, it has far reaching implications for various industry verticals in the country as there would be no updates for combating security issues, and loss of compliance.
Iluyemi explained that regulatory certifications for financial institutions that have attained Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) becomes invalidated as the support on applications and programs comes to an end for organisations, data centres or server running this Operating System (OS) after this date. “Windows 2003 is one of the most successful platforms in the world. There are thousands of the businesses in the country running on this platform.
There are so many Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) sitting on this platform, business critical applications for oil and gas firms, public sector rely on this platform”, said Iluyemi.
According to him, Nigerian companies that fail to migrate to a new platform before the deadline would be exposing their mission critical data to cybercriminals.
“If a company misses the July 2015 deadline, the cost implications will be so huge. We are saying to businesses in West Africa that Wragby has the solution to successfully and efficiently migrate to Windows 2008 or Windows 2012”, said the Wragby CEO. The company is already ramping up competencies in the applications migrations. First of all, Wragby Business Solutions & Technologies Limited, a Microsoft cloud partner, has joined the AppZero Partner Program as a Gold Partner for Nigeria and the rest of West Africa.
Through the partners program, AppZero collaborates with system integrators, service providers and resellers to support enterprise application migrations to and across datacentres and clouds.
The Partner Program is the foundation of AppZero’s worldwide channel strategy to ensure comprehensive global coverage of its award-winning application migration software in the run-up to Windows Server 2003 end of support. Microsoft recommends AppZero Enterprise for application migration for various applications from Windows Server 2003 to either 2012 or Azure.
AppZero partners combine cutting edge products and services that open the business potential of the cloud. “We’re very excited about the partnership with AppZero as it equips Wragby with a vital component to our cloud migration services.
AppZero enables large enterprise application migrations at speeds that we’ve never come across, which results in a positive outcome for our customers”.
Speaking in the same vein, Greg O’Connor, chief executive officer, AppZero, said, “We welcome Wragby into the AppZero network of value service and solution providers for enterprise application migration. We will equip Wragby with the tools and resources necessary to implement application migrations, especially as it relates to Windows Server 2003 end of support”. AppZero is the fastest, most flexible way to move server applications to and across any cloud or datacentre, without code change or lock-in. Encapsulating Windows applications in VM/OS-free packages, AppZero’s patented software moves complex server applications with ease. AppZero allows businesses to move from an old OS to a newer one, with a click of a button – modernise and move to the cloud in just one step.
