{"id":374726,"date":"2020-02-18T06:56:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=374726"},"modified":"2020-02-17T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:56:48","slug":"vox-cloud-migration-a-king-price-insurance-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/374726\/vox-cloud-migration-a-king-price-insurance-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox cloud migration \u2013 A King Price Insurance case study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Nina Appiah-Baiden<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Insurance companies hold personal details, financial details and the like, in their care. They deal with a lot of sensitive and private information.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore imperative that these companies have a way to have all this information stored, archived, and secured.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.co.za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=Feb2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to find out how Vox can help your business.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The business challenge<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOur company has grown by an average of 47% yearly over the last seven years and we are currently the front leader of growth in our industry,\u201d said Sebastian Erasmus, Network and Security Engineer at King Price Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted a vendor that would grow with us, a company that would help us adopt new products as and when we need them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did King Price Insurance need to store their files safely and securely, and ensure their network is prepared for disaster recovery or network failure, they also needed to keep up with the pace of the insurance industry.<\/p>\n<p>Measures to increase efficiency and speed were a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to back up our documents with hard drives and with another company that stores physical documents,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with this method was that our documents would go through a lot of hands, not only posing a security risk, but allowing for many points of failure,\u201d he added, highlighting that this was not a seamless process.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this, two of King Price\u2019s core IT goals were to migrate to the Cloud and keep their core network at Teraco, building a hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n<p>They were looking for a service provider to help them meet these goals.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, King Price had another issue they were dealing with. This was with regards to their company mobile SIMs, \u201cWe have had some employees abusing the company\u2019s mobile data, but we were unable to control this or create accountability for it,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The business solution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>King Price Insurance was introduced to Vox through Knekt Telecoms, a Vox Business Partner, so they already had Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) lines with Vox.<\/p>\n<p>Vox was also the first company to offer King Price Fortinet, a leading firewall brand, of which Vox are platinum partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relationship we have with Vox has been nothing short of amazing,\u201d said Erasmus. It\u2019s because of this relationship that King Price found a company that could provide the scalability they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVox has a plethora of products to assist with Cloud migration and their presence at Teraco is also helpful,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n<p>He added that migrating to the Cloud has given King Price the control they need to store their data on premise. \u201cWe are also set up for disaster recovery thanks to the network redundancy Vox helped us build,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n<p>Migrating to the Cloud has opened the doors of Veeam Backup, a backup software sold and supported by Vox, to King Price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVeeam Backup has solved a lot of problems for us, it is safe, fast, reliable and efficient,\u201d said Erasmus. \u201cVox also manages our backup, not only do we have peace of mind knowing who is control of our backup at all times, but we have saved time and money when we compare Veeam Backup and Vox Managed Backup Services to our previous traditional way of backing up,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, Vox\u2019s private APN (Access Point Name) enabled King Price to monitor abuse on all their SIM cards, \u201cWe can now hold staff accountable for their use of company mobile data,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Overall experience with Vox<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cVox have gone above and beyond,\u201d said Erasmus. \u201cWe get amazing products from them and their service delivery is proactive and always on point. They always take our budget into consideration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus added that he has found Vox to have a great knowledge of technology, which is always helpful to their company, \u201cVox goes to extreme lengths to demo products,\u201d he said and added that Vox sitting in on monthly meetings for service reviews is valuable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny issues we have had with Vox products have been on the fault of third-party vendors,\u201d said Erasmus, \u201cand Vox has been quick to help us with those issues and liaise with said vendors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.co.za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=Feb2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to find out how Vox can help your business with backup and disaster recovery, network failure. <\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Vox enabled King Price Insurance to store their files safely and securely, ensure their network is prepared for disaster recovery or network failure, and keep up with the pace of the insurance industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":374728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,4369],"class_list":["post-374726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374732,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374726\/revisions\/374732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}