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LSD welcomes Knowledge Focus to Planet Open Source

Knowledge Focus's open source experience, combined with LSD's expertise in DevOps, Openshift and Kubernetes, provides instant combined value for strategic solutions for clients.

Johannesburg, 23 Jan 2020

LSD Information Technology (LSD) is announcing the merger of Knowledge Focus into the fold as of 1 January 2020.

The strategic integration is the result of a shared vision to unify and further strengthen competencies across key open source solution spaces.

Through this merger, LSD hopes to explore new opportunities with their combined superpowers and will continue to deliver market-leading open source solutions.

Speaking about the merger, Stefan Lesicnik, CEO of LSD Information Technology, said: "We are really excited to no longer compete with the great team from Knowledge Focus, but rather, to work with them as colleagues and deliver great customer solutions based on open source Elastic Stack and Kafka. Knowledge Focus's open source experience with Elastic and Kafka, combined with the LSD expertise around DevOps, Openshift and Kubernetes, provides instant combined value for strategic solutions for our clients."

  • Learn more about LSD Information Technology and open source technology at https://lsd.co.za/

Doug Moll, Director at Knowledge Focus, also commented: "We are thrilled by what this means for the future of open source in South Africa. LSD has been a leader in this space for some time already, and together with Knowledge Focus's core search and analytics strengths, will be even better positioned to support customers as they continue their journey into the world of open source. We are excited about the growth opportunities for ourselves, but also for the depth and breadth of competencies that will be on offer to our customers."

LSD and Knowledge Focus

LSD, a part of iOCO OpenDigital, was founded in 2001 by Lesicnik and has grown into the largest pure-play open source developer in Africa in 19 years of operations, with 30-plus open source development resources.

The company delivers innovative open source solutions, featuring technologies from key partners, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE and Redis.

Knowledge Focus was started in 2000 by Piet Dempsey and specialises in the delivery of search and analytics solutions. Having worked with most major search-based technologies, the company partnered with Elastic in 2015 as their core focus shifted to open source.

Since then, it has brought on board other open source competencies, such as Kafka and Ansible. With a strong team of certified Elastic Engineers, the company offers expert consultation and support services to its customers and is also very active in the local Elastic community.

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