Eighteen months after its announcement as the first Red Hat Advanced Business Partner with middleware specialisation in southern Africa, LSD Information Technology is proud to announce the launch of a new division focused exclusively on the middleware space.
The new middleware division, formed as a result of LSD Information Technology's acquisition of Hardware Junction, a specialist software development house with extensive experience and customer base, significantly expands on LSD's already extensive middleware, telecommunications and ISP offerings, and broadens the scope of its Java SE and EE certifications and offerings.
Headed up by Technical Director Jonathan Ingram, this move sees LSD Information Technology expand its current middleware service offering to provide a competitive and cost-efficient, enterprise-ready middleware solution in the MEA region.
Backed by 18 months' of experience as an Advanced JBoss Red Hat Partner, this new division will now also include a dedicated development team proficient in Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), and will cover the complete stack of middleware products - from JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, to JBoss SOA, JBoss BRMS, JBoss Data Services and JBoss SE and EE Technologies.
Says Sven Lesicnik, MD of LSD Information Technology: "The introduction of a dedicated development team to support and enhance our JBoss service offering means we are able to offer our clients fully-customisable solutions for their enterprise-level middleware needs, while still significantly improving IT cost savings."
Jonathan Ingram, Technical Director, concurs: "The flexible, open source nature of JBoss means we are able to modify the middleware solutions to accurately and effectively meet customer requirements, while still offering enterprise-class support and functionality at a greatly reduced cost."
The new division will add a welcome and much-needed new dimension to the middleware skill set offering available in the MEA region, says Red Hat South Africa Country Manager, Louis Seyffert.
Seyffert explains: "This move is a massive boost to the Red Hat ecosystem in Africa, and we're excited that our customers in the region will benefit from this injection of specialist skills and talent."
Seyffert goes on to say that LSD's specialist skill set will enable customers to deploy large-scale, enterprise-level projects based on JBoss with confidence.
"Our long-standing partnership with LSD on the Red Hat infrastructure and middleware offerings gives us great confidence in their ability to provide a stable and professional middleware service in the MEA region."
Lesicnik concludes: "We look forward to seeing our middleware division become the complete end-to-end solution for MEA clients looking to migrate from proprietary-based middleware offerings such as Oracle and IBM, and even open source community editions, onto a stable and cost-efficient JBoss enterprise middleware platform."
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