Case Study: The Africa Institute achieves scalable, ransomware‑protected storage with Arcserve OneXafe

The Africa Institute UAE-based The Africa Institute chooses OneXafe to improve storage solutions and data security

The Africa Institute, a Sharjah‑based interdisciplinary research and postgraduate education centre, faced growing pains as it prepared to expand campuses and student intake. Its existing QNAP and HP scale‑up storage struggled with limited scalability, a small three‑person IT team, and insufficient protection against modern threats like ransomware—prompting a search for a cost‑effective, secure, and flexible storage solution.

Working with Arcserve partner Looppe, the institute deployed a OneXafe 4412 immutable, scale‑out storage appliance managed via OneSystem. The pay‑as‑you‑grow architecture simplified management, reduced storage footprint, and provided immutable snapshots for ransomware protection. After 21 months the OneXafe deployment delivered faster I/O, improved data resilience, strong ROI and boosted productivity, and the institute plans a second appliance for additional replication as it readies its new campus and academic systems.

The Africa Institute

Sherif Nour

Head of IT and Academic Computing