Cybersmart Teams Up with Hexion, Cuts Storage Costs by 60% in South African Data Centres
The move marks a significant step in Cybersmart’s evolution as it seeks to enhance performance, scale efficiently, and stay ahead in a fiercely competitive Cloud market.
Cybersmart , one of South Africa’s leading internet and cloud service providers, has partnered with Hexion , a next-generation data storage company developed and operated in South Africa. The move marks a significant step in Cybersmart’s evolution as it seeks to enhance performance, scale efficiently, and stay ahead in a fiercely competitive Cloud market.
Laurie Fialkov, Founder and CTO of Cybersmart, has long championed a forward-looking approach to infrastructure investment. Facing rising capital expenditure and the growing demands of data-intensive services, Fialkov sought a smarter, more resilient storage solution to fuel Cybersmart’s next growth phase.
“Our legacy storage platform—a NAS architecture—has served us reliably over the years. But with rising capex and the need to maintain top-tier performance and resilience, we needed a change. With Hexion, we’ve found a partner who can match our performance requirements, deliver greater resilience, and reduce our storage costs by more than 60%.”
–Laurie Fialkov, Founder and CTO, Cybersmart.
At the heart of this transition is Hexion’s advanced storage area network (SAN), designed and engineered in South Africa. Hexion employs a unique, all-Nvme, distributed data storage and protection architecture across six geo-redundant data centres. This approach ensures greater fault tolerance and high-speed data access that surpasses traditional storage systems.
“Our mission with Hexion is to build storage that isn’t just price competitive, but genuinely better in every sense. It’s not enough to compete on price alone. Our platform has to offer class-leading performance and resilience—especially for businesses like Cybersmart who run critical infrastructure.”
–Stuart Hardy, Managing Director, Hexion.
For Cybersmart, the benefits are clear: a high-performance, highly resilient storage backbone that unlocks capital previously tied up in hardware-heavy infrastructure. The cost savings will be reinvested in expanding their cloud offering, delivering even more value to customers in a highly competitive market.
“Data storage is growing at a pace that is challenging to address on many levels. With Hexion, we’ve found a way to modernise our storage, improve our margins, and strengthen our value proposition all at once.”
–Laurie Fialkov, Founder and CTO, Cybersmart.
