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YAS · SENEGAL

A geo-redundant cloud
for Senegalese businesses.

Two geo-redundant data centres, built and then operated by Synelia: the foundation on which YAS offers its B2B customers a cloud service hosted in Senegal — one that runs, for example, SEN’EAU’s infrastructure.

Client
YAS Senegal
Country
Senegal
Industry
Telecoms · B2B cloud
Expertise
Cloud · high availability · operations
Diagram: two geo-redundant data centres underpin the cloud offering, operated by Synelia
Illustration · infrastructure principle: two active sites, one cloud offering, single operations

THE CONTEXT

An operator becoming a trusted hosting provider.

Senegalese businesses and institutions need to host their systems close to home, with high availability and data that stays in the country.

YAS entrusted Synelia with building a cloud infrastructure spread across two geographically separate data centres, then running it day to day: YAS sells the offering, Synelia runs the platform.

THE CHALLENGES

Three objectives
to deliver together.

Availability

Services that keep running even if an entire site goes down.

Sovereignty

Data hosted in Senegal, under the operator’s control.

A commercial offering

Resources provided to B2B customers — isolated, metered and billed.

OUR RESPONSE

What we
built.

Two geo-redundant data centres

Two separate, replicated sites, built to withstand the loss of an entire site.

Data replication

Storage and databases replicated between the two sites.

Automatic failover

In the event of an incident, services fail over to the second site.

Per-customer environments

Each B2B customer has isolated, dedicated resources.

Operated by Synelia

Monitoring, maintenance, security and upgrades of both sites, handled by our teams.

Security

Network segmentation, access control and backups.

ARCHITECTURE

How
it’s built.

01YAS B2B customersHosted organisations
SEN’EAUInstitutionsFinanceBusinesses
02Cloud servicesThe operator’s offering
Virtual machinesStorageBackupNetwork
03PlatformThe software foundation
VirtualisationOrchestrationMonitoringSecurity
04Geo-redundant infrastructureTwo geographically separate sites
Data centre AContinuous replicationData centre B

OPERATIONS

YAS sells the cloud.
Synelia runs it.

Once the platform is live, our teams operate it: both sites are managed as a single whole.

01

Monitoring

Availability, capacity and replication status monitored continuously across both sites.

02

Maintenance

Updates, patches and maintenance of the equipment and the virtualisation layer.

03

Continuity

Inter-site failover procedures, recovery tests and verified backups.

04

Security

Segmentation, privileged access control, vulnerability tracking.

05

Customer support

Provisioning of environments for YAS’s B2B customers and support for their migrations.

06

Upgrades

Additional capacity and new services as the offering grows.

WHAT THE PROJECT DELIVERS

Results
in production.

2 data centresgeo-redundant and replicated
B2BA cloud offering sold by the operator
SEN’EAUamong the hosted infrastructures
Syneliaoperates the platform day to day

WHAT COMES NEXT, WE BUILD TOGETHER

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