Private Cloud Solutions for Businesses in South Africa
Saicom’s tailored private cloud solutions ensure optimal performance, scalability and architecture alignment.
By streamlining deployment, our solutions minimise operational headaches, while offering you the choice of a managed private cloud or self-service control. This flexible model, backed by our trusted cloud computing expertise, accelerates your long-term business growth.
Benefits:
- Quicker time to market
- Premium local, personalised support at no extra cost
- Managed or self-service
- Clean Migration
- Expert consultation on digital transformation & app modernisation
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What our customers say
Some companies Exco teams believe they are above dealing with you as a customer. That’s not the case with Saicom. Their team is really exceptional. They are truly market leaders when it comes to overall service.
Colin Corbett
Chief Information Officer, Bidvest Steiner
The differentiator for us is Saicom’s ability to deliver both customer service and technical expertise. The team took the time to understand our business requirements and ensured any issues would be addressed as quickly as possible.
Raymond McIntyre
Senior General Manager, Platinum Life
Saicom was willing to do whatever was necessary to ensure our systems were working optimally. The company adapts to our needs and manages our network and telephony outcomes on our behalf.
Easy to work with, coupled with reliable systems and great ongoing support.
About Saicom Private Cloud Services
Businesses require secure, flexible, and high-performance cloud infrastructure to automate operations, deliver richer customer experiences, and support modern applications.
Saicom Private Cloud offers a tailored environment specifically designed around your workloads, providing the control, reliability, and business agility necessary for a digital-first strategy.
Built to support today’s app-driven world, our platform offers the ideal destination for your critical applications, with strong security, scalable resources, and seamless workload mobility. Choose from dedicated or secure shared infrastructure, with the ability to migrate workloads across our Johannesburg and Cape Town, or integrate disaster recovery from your on-premise environment.
Private Cloud Environments Personalised for your Business
Saicom Private Cloud delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (IaaS and PaaS), enabling you to deploy, manage, and monitor multiple workloads from a single, intuitive cloud portal.
Manage virtual machines, vApps, containers, and software services with deep visibility and full control, all within a customisable cloud environment built to match your business needs.
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Saicom Managed
Set up Personalised Cloud Computing Services in 3 Simple Steps
Step 1
Request a consultation with one of our market-leading Cloud Ops specialists who will design a solution to match your unique business needs.
Step 2
Get a quote within 48 hours of the initial meeting.
Step 3
Start accelerating your company’s digital transformation journey.
Benefits of Saicom Private Cloud Services
Saicom’s Private Cloud portal offers secure, efficient, and elastic cloud computing resources to our customers, seamless provisioning and consumption of cloud computing resources and services to geographically distributed lines of business and IT teams in an API-driven approach.
Managing workloads through the Saicom Private Cloud Portal gives customers fast delivery times, minimal setup, with no additional hardware requirements, enabling an easy, seamless experience.
Our Cloud Computing Services: Key Features & Advanced Capabilities
Our managed private cloud infrastructure offers unparalleled advantages over public or on-premise infrastructure.
By choosing Saicom, you protect sensitive data, meet regulatory compliance requirements, and benefit from advanced security, including penetration testing, and protective features like built-in disaster recovery.
These are critical foundations for any business seeking a flexible, powerful corporate cloud.
Elastic Secure Virtual Data Centres
A policy-driven, software-defined data centre approach to computing, storage, networking and security ensures customers have securely isolated virtual resources, independent role-based authentication, and fine-grained control of their cloud services, with full self-service controls or delivered as part of a managed service.
DRaaS & Cloud Migration
Regaining access and functionality to IT infrastructure after events like a cyber attack or business disruptions is increasingly critical. Saicom offers self-service, tiered disaster-recovery as-a-service between Saicom data centres. Customers with recent versions of vSphere can now see Saicom as a Disaster Recovery endpoint for existing on-premise workloads.
Customers can drive their own cold or warm cloud migrations with no complex architecture, networking and security conversions, benefiting from a vSphere target endpoint.
Multi-Site Management
Stretch data centres across sites and geographies; monitor resources from an intuitive single pane of glass with multi-site aggregate views.
Operational Visibility & Insights
A single intuitive interface provides centralised cloud management views. Leverage advanced analytics for deep visibility and comprehensive reporting of virtual data centre environments.
Secure Cloud
Supports multiple security-centric features to deliver an enterprise-class cloud service. To help prevent malware, customers can utilise NSX-T distributed firewalling, securing East-West traffic.
Furthermore, dynamic groups and membership criteria can be defined to prevent future exposure by automating protection. Customers can choose to encrypt workloads to prevent them from being accessed without a key.
Advanced Virtualisation
Our platform offers advanced virtualisation for scalable, on-demand resources. It’s VMware-powered and enables multi-site deployment across Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Nairobi.
API-Driven Provisioning
The portal enables secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources through API-Driven Provisioning. It ensures fast delivery, minimal setup, and no additional hardware requirements.
VMware-Powered Innovation
Built on industry-leading VMware technology, our platform offers trusted, robust, and highly compatible infrastructure. It supports seamless workload mobility and is the ideal destination for critical applications.
Networking & Security
Easily configure essential network services, including IP pools, gateways, DNS servers, and search domains. Our platform supports advanced traffic management through routing and load balancing, and enables secure, private connections via site-to-site VPN.
Security is reinforced with a robust firewall and edge services while these components are managed through a single management interface, helping you meet user-defined access and zero-trust goals.
Data Protection
Our Data Protection capabilities ensure business continuity and quick recovery. We offer cloud-based recovery services that allow you to recover quickly and easily from disruption. For organisations already utilising VMware, managing these services is seamless as they can use existing vSphere skills to manage the recovery solution.
Saicom Private Cloud portal
Saicom’s Private Cloud portal offers secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to our customers, seamless provisioning and consumption of cloud computing resources and services to geographically distributed lines of business and IT teams in an API-driven approach.
Managing workloads through the Saicom Private Cloud Portal gives customers the benefit of fast delivery times, minimal set-up and no additional hardware setup requirements, enabling an easy, seamless experience.
Elastic Secure Virtual Data Centers
A policy-driven, software-defined data centre approach to computing, storage, networking and security ensures customers have securely isolated virtual resources, independent role-based authentication, and fine-grained control of their cloud services, with full self-service controls or delivered as part of a managed service.
DRaaS workload protection and Cloud Migration
Self-service, tiered disaster-recovery as-a-service between Saicom data centres. Customers with recent versions of vSphere; can now see Saicom as a Disaster Recovery endpoint for existing on-premise workloads. Customers can drive their own cold or warm cloud migrations with no complex architecture, networking and security conversions, benefiting from a vSphere target endpoint.
Multi-Site Management
Stretch data centres across sites and geographies; monitor resources from an intuitive single-pane of glass with multi-site aggregate views.
Operational Visibility and Insights
A single pane of glass to provide centralised cloud management views. Leverage advanced analytics for deep visibility and comprehensive reporting of virtual data centre environments.
Disaster Recovery
Regaining access and functionality to IT infrastructure after events like a cyber attack, or business disruptions is increasingly critical. Saicom offers customers disaster recovery solutions through various methods in order to tailor this to their requirements.
Secure Cloud
Supports multiple security-centric features to deliver an enterprise class cloud service. To help prevent malware, customers can utilise NSX-T distributed firewalling securing East-West traffic. Furthermore, dynamic groups and membership criteria can be defined to prevent future exposure automating protection. Customers can choose to encrypt workloads to prevent them being accessed without a key.
Developer Ready Cloud
- Native K8s support
- Tanzu Kubernetes support
- App service and tooling
- Modernised infrastructure
Networking
- Configure IP pools, gateways, DNS servers and search domains
- Routing and load balancing
- Site-to-site VPN
Security
- Robust firewall and edge services
- Single-pane management
- User-defined access and zero-trust goals
Data Protection
- Cloud-based recovery services
- Recover quickly and easily from disruption
- User existing vSphere skills
Frequently Asked Questions About Private Cloud
What is Private Cloud?
A private cloud is a dedicated, single-tenant cloud environment that provides compute, storage, and networking resources exclusively to one organisation. It can be deployed in your own data centre or hosted by a service provider like Saicom. It delivers a high level of control, security, and consistent performance, making it ideal for critical workloads, strict compliance needs, and predictable resource demands.
Saicom’s managed private cloud is designed around your specific workloads, offering the control, reliability, and agility required for a digital-first strategy.
Unlock dedicated performance and security. Call us or enquire to discuss your Private Cloud solution needs.
How does Private Cloud work?
A Private Cloud uses virtualisation technology to turn physical hardware—servers, storage, and networking—into a flexible pool of computing resources dedicated entirely to your organisation. Unlike public cloud, nothing is shared with other customers.
It works through three core layers:
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Whether hosted on-premises or in a provider’s data centre, the environment is single-tenant. All resources are reserved for your business, ensuring consistent performance and stronger security.
- Virtualisation Layer: Software virtualises the physical hardware into virtual machines, containers, and storage blocks. This allows you to scale resources on demand without needing more physical servers.
- Cloud Management Portal: You manage the entire environment through a unified portal or dashboard. It acts as a single pane of glass, enabling private cloud users to deploy, manage, and monitor multiple workloads, giving you full control and deep visibility over their entire IT infrastructure.
In short, a Private Cloud delivers the flexibility of cloud computing with the security, performance, and control of dedicated infrastructure.
Get in touch or call us directly to discuss how easy it can be to manage your secure, dedicated cloud environment.
What is Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a secure, isolated section of a public cloud environment.
While VPCs use shared public cloud infrastructure, they utilise features like virtual networking and dedicated subnets to create a private, logically-isolated space for an organisation’s workloads.
This allows multiple users to benefit from the feel of a private cloud with the scalability and flexible cost model of a public cloud.
Need both control and scale? Contact us to see if a Virtual Private Cloud fits your needs.
What is the Difference: Private Cloud vs Public Cloud Services?
Private Cloud is a single-tenant environment offering a fully dedicated infrastructure, resulting in maximum control, guaranteed performance, and robust security/compliance. It gives you a fully dedicated environment with more control, stronger security, and consistent performance. Private cloud environments are ideal for businesses with critical workloads, security and compliance needs, or predictable resource demands.
Public Cloud, on the other hand, is a shared, multi-tenant environment offered by hyperscalers, known for broad scalability, quick provisioning, and a pay-as-you-use cost model. It is a shared environment offered by hyperscalers. It is flexible, fast to deploy, and cost-effective for variable or short-term workloads—but offers less customisation and control.
Key Differences
- Security:
- Private = isolated + high compliance
- Public = shared infrastructure
- Performance:
- Private = consistent
- Public = can vary
- Control:
- Private = full control
- Public = provider-defined limits
- Cost:
- Private = predictable monthly spend
- Public = pay-as-you-use
Which One Is Right for Your Business?
Private Cloud Services:
- High security and isolation
- Custom-built infrastructure
- Guaranteed performance
- Compliance with strict regulatory requirements
- Dedicated local support and predictable costs
Public Cloud Services:
- Broad scalability
- Quick provisioning
- Flexible, short-term workloads
- High availability across global regions
- Access to advanced AI/ML or serverless services
Many businesses opt for hybrid cloud computing services, combining the consistent performance of a private cloud for critical applications with the flexibility of a public cloud for variable workloads.
While Saicom focuses more on hosted private cloud solutions, we support using our environment as a Disaster Recovery endpoint for your existing on-premise workloads.
Call us directly or get in touch to compare your options and find out which private cloud arichitecture is right for your business.
What are Hybrid Cloud Solutions?
Hybrid cloud solutions represent a unified IT environment that connects two or more distinct cloud infrastructures: typically a Private Cloud and Public Cloud resources. This strategy allows an organisation to run critical, consistent workloads on the highly controlled Private Cloud while leveraging the vast, elastic public cloud resources for variable, less sensitive tasks.
This approach offers the best of both worlds: the security, performance, and compliance of the Private Cloud combined with the cost efficiency, broad scalability, and accessibility of the Public Cloud. Data and applications can be seamlessly moved between these environments, giving businesses optimal flexibility and business agility.
Saicom’s role as a trusted cloud service provider is to enable this seamless transition by helping you select the best blend of dedicated and shared private cloud environments to meet your unique business needs.
To discuss how to seamlessly integrate your Public Cloud resources with a high-performance Private Cloud, call us today.
What is the Benefit of Using a Private Cloud?
The benefits of choosing private cloud are rooted in providing enhanced control, security, and performance for your mission-critical applications:
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Resources are reserved exclusively for a single organisation, eliminating the “noisy neighbour” effect.
- Enhanced Security: Provides higher levels of security and isolation, which is critical for sensitive data and operations.
- Regulatory Compliance: Easier to meet strict industry or government compliance and regulatory requirements.
- Predictable Performance: Guarantees consistent performance because the resources are not shared.
- Full Customisation and Control: Offers total control over the software, hardware, and network configuration.
Start benefiting from guaranteed performance. Call us directly or enquire today to upgrade your infrastructure with Saicom.
What is Hosted Private Cloud?
Hosted Private Cloud is an environment where the infrastructure is dedicated solely to your business but is managed and hosted by a third-party service provider, like Saicom, in their data centres.
This option gives you the full benefits of a private cloud—such as control and security—without the capital expenditure and operational burden of managing the physical hardware yourself. Saicom’s offering can be fully managed by their team or self-managed through an intuitive cloud portal.
Gain control without complexity. Request a consultation with our private cloud specialists by calling or contacting us today.
Upgrade Your Infrastructure With Saicom’s Private Cloud Computing Services
Saicom's Private Cloud solution provides a secure cloud environment with dedicated infrastructure, designed to meet complex business requirements and support your digital-first strategy.
Choose a trusted cloud provider to ensure your IT infrastructure and critical workloads get consistent performance. Contact us now to see how Saicom's Private Cloud can work for your business.