Rackspace gaat M-Pesa hosten

News Wireless Global 29 SEP 2010
Rackspace gaat M-Pesa hosten
Rackspace Hosting, leverancier van hosting en cloud computing-oplossingen, heeft een overeenkomst gesloten met Vodafone voor de hosting van M-Pesa, een platform dat mobiel betalen mogelijk maakt. De oplossing wordt momenteel gebruikt in opkomende economieën waar er weinig of geen bestaande bancaire infrastructuur is buiten de grote steden. M-Pesa is nu beschikbaar in Kenia, Tanzania, Zuid-Afrika, Afghanistan en Fiji. M-Pesa heeft naar eigen zeggen meer dan 16 miljoen klanten. Als onderdeel van de samenwerking met Vodafone zet Rackspace satelliet streaming-technologie in om real time transactie-informatie te verzenden en ontvangen. Hiervoor gebruikt het redundante database servers. Ook levert het managed back-up en dedicated hosting voor alle applicaties en de web servers.

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