AWS Public Sector

Silicon Overdrive has significant experience helping customers migrate to the cloud, modernising their applications to utilise cloud-native services, securing these workloads, and delivering Managed Services to our customers.

We assist customers from various industries including Public Sector, Higher Education, Healthcare, Non-profit, and EdTech.

Public Sector Partner of the Year 2021

Silicon Overdrive has won an AWS Partner Award, recognising leaders in sub-Saharan Africa playing a key role helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud.

Education

Silicon Overdrive is committed to Education, with a special focus on Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether you’re looking to migrate your LMS to the Cloud, or are looking for a simple online storage solution, AWS and Silicon Overdrive can help.

AWS provides a set of flexible services that are designed to simplify provisioning and management of your Education infrastructure and applications. With these services, you can quickly build out your cloud infrastructure, deploy applications like your LMS to any instance, or develop complex applications on AWS.

As AWS Premier Partners, Silicon Overdrive provides AWS Education Solutions, AWS cloud infrastructure managed services including architecting, migration, security, maintenance and monitoring of your AWS environments with a security and compliance emphasis.

Silicon Overdrive Achieves Education Competency

Silicon Overdrive successfully achieved its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education Competency status.

Learn More About How AWS Benefits Educational Institutions

Achieving Operational Excellence in Higher Education

Wits turns to AWS Cloud for Uninterrupted, Learning and Working

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University of the Witwatersrand provides accessible remote learning with AWS

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Case Studies

University of Pretoria — Fungal Genomics Proof-of-Concept (PoC)

The University of Pretoria is one of the top research institutions in Africa. Read their case study on Fungal Genomics Proof-of-Concept (PoC).

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University of Pretoria – Virtual Welcome Day

The University of Pretoria is one of Africa’s top universities and the largest contact University in South Africa. View their case study.

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The eAr — Scales Secure LMS and Video Streaming Platform on AWS

The eAr Academy partnered with Silicon Overdrive to launch a secure, scalable LMS with video streaming, powered by AWS managed services.

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University of Witwatersrand – BigBlueButton

Wits needed to rehost its BigBlueButton environment to a highly-scalable and secure VPC. Have a look at their case study.

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DaySeven Training

DaySeven Training’s mission is to ensure that you are harness with the relevant and necessary skills to safeguard your place in the world of business. Have a look at their case study.

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University of Witwatersrand – Sakai

Wits needed to move its Sakai LMS from its on-premise servers to the cloud due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Have a look at their case study.

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University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of Africa’s top universities and the largest contact university in South Africa. Have a look at their case study.

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University of Pretoria – AWS WAFR and Migration

University of Pretoria is one of the top research institutions in Africa and its mission is to be a leading research-intensive university in Africa.

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Case Studies

University of the Witwatersrand - Sakai

Wits had an urgent requirement to move their Sakai Learning Management System (LMS) from their on-premise servers to the cloud due to the COVID-19 lockdown and to ensure availability, security and compliance.

University of the Witwatersrand - BigBlueButton

Due to Covid-19 and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown, Wits needed to adapt and offer more online training, meetings, and interactions for its staff and students.

University of Pretoria

The University was hosting its web applications on co-located and on-prem infrastructures and often experienced downtime. The University also was incurring high capex and co-location costs.

The eAr Academy

What The eAr Academy needed, more than anything else, was a company to partner with who would understand the nuances of what they were trying to achieve.

After a few business development meetings, it was decided that Silicon Overdrive would custom build The eAr Academy a new LMS (Learning Management System) platform that would meet their specific requirements and subscription model.

DaySeven Training

DaySeven Training elected to run their Moodle environment on AWS, and the initial deployment met all their organizational requirements.

As their business scaled and demand increased, their environment could not scale and was running out of capacity, which resulted in frequent downtime and could result in potential data loss.

Get Started with Your AWS Cloud Journey

AWS and Silicon Overdrive have the tools, services, and resources to help accelerate your journey to the cloud. To get started, your Educational Institution can leverage AWS’s highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure resources and DevOps tooling in minutes with no upfront cost.

Healthcare

AWS is the trusted technology and innovation partner to the global healthcare and life sciences industry, providing unmatched reliability, security, and data privacy.

Case Studies

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NPOs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is dedicated to a world where every person has the opportunity to live a life of dignity on a healthy planet. Tens of thousands of nonprofits and non-governmental organisations worldwide use AWS to increase their impact and advance mission goals.

Whether you are working to improve the performance of donor-facing websites, enhancing data practices through managed databases and analytics, propelling research through machine learning, or improving remote monitoring with the Internet of Things (IoT), AWS is here to help.

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Free Consultancy

We offer two hours of FREE AWS Consultancy to, for example, clarify technical questions; provide architectural advice; discuss AWS Funding options; discuss potential cost savings; and help you gain a deeper understanding of the cloud journey.

EdTech

Empowering EdTech innovation to improve learning outcomes and secure student data.

Education technology (EdTech) companies are accelerating the development of scalable and secure technology solutions that support students and educators with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

With dedicated business and technical resources to support growth, AWS supports EdTechs to start, expand, and optimize their business as they deliver on their mission for education.

EdTech Webinar: Simplify your AWS Cloud Migration

Customer Satisfaction

Foremost, we are customer-focused.

Excellent understanding of Aws architecture and platform. They also have good systems knowledge and they executed our migration to the cloud with a clear project plan. Their project management skills and interpersonal skills were second to none.

Since we've started with Silicon Overdrive the service has been exceptional, my partner and I are both non technical people and the team at Silicon Overdrive has shown us great patience in ensuring we understand the migration process, best practices, benefits of being with AWS walking us through the technical jargon and have also displayed immense dedication to our start-up working with us after hours as the guys on our technical team work day jobs and are only available after hours.

Silicon Overdrive has proven themselves as a very competent AWS partner that has delivered high quality solutions to CareConnect. They have also assisted CareConnect to optimise their AWS usage spend and recover costs where not needed, as part of our maintenance agreement with them. They have also shown great flexibility to support us, when dealing with our requirements and budget limitations. The only area of improvement that we believe Silicon Overdrive needs to focus on is growing their resource base to create more capacity.

Silicon Overdrive were very professional in their proposal and implementation of the designed architecture. There were a number of adhoc changes that were required and they were very willing to help and accommodate those along with advice on best practice.

Silicon Overdrive has impressed us with its service levels from the day we commenced our relationship. Their understanding of AWS products and services, combined with the brilliance and efficiency in setting up the project was matched by the excellent communication and guidance we received. Would use them again in a heart beat as well as recommend them to anyone needing assistance in this regard.

This was truly an incredible experience from start to finish. The Overdrive team went out of it's way to ensure that we understood every step that was taken and all the best processes and best practice techniques. They were thorough and patient and ensured that we understood each method and technique that was used for the project. We really loved working with the team and highly recommend their services. We plan on continuing our journey with them in the near future.