END USER INSIGHT
Mohammed Sleeq, Chief Digital Officer at Aramex
RACKSPACE TECHNOLOGY
LEADS ARAMEX’S MIGRATION
TO PUBLIC CLOUD
As digitisation takes hold,
companies are discovering
new ways to become
more innovative and cloud
technology is therefore
becoming increasingly
utilised. Mohammed Sleeq,
Chief Digital Officer at
Aramex, tells us how the
company migrated its entire
technology infrastructure to
the public cloud with the help
of Rackspace Technology.
Rackspace Technology has
announced that Aramex, a leading
global provider of comprehensive
logistics and transportation solutions, is in
the process of migrating from on-premise
data centres to Amazon Web Services
(AWS) following a comprehensive
Professional Services consultation.
Aramex, which moved more than 103
million shipments globally last year, started
its cloud journey with the creation of one
of the largest data lakes in the Middle East
and the deployment of Machine Learning
models in areas of customer experience
and last mile innovation.
Through the managed public cloud
environment, the Dubai-based
organisation has already achieved cost
savings when scaling, which was crucial
during the early months of the COVID-19
pandemic where it saw around 30–40%
growth in e-commerce volumes. Working
with Rackspace Technology, Aramex is
also provided with expert cloud security,
compliance services and the ability
to leverage data analytics, ultimately
enabling it to become cloud native.
“Our journey to becoming cloud native is
vital to the future growth and innovation
of the business,” said Mohammed Sleeq,
Chief Digital Officer at Aramex.
“Modernising our core landscape is more
important than ever before given the
current industry dynamics which is fuelled
by the consistent growth of e-commerce.
We embarked on a pivotal shift of our
IT environment and the collaboration
between our internal team and that of
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