Best Block Storage Solutions in Africa
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What are Block Storage Solutions in Africa?
Block storage solutions and software are designed to help organizations store "blocks," which are volumes of structured object data. Block storage systems streamline the process of handling block storage. Compare and read user reviews of the best Block Storage solutions in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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QuantaStor
OSNEXUS
QuantaStor is a unified Software-Defined Storage platform designed to scale up and out to make storage management easy while reducing overall enterprise storage costs. With support for all major file, block, and object protocols including iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, and S3, QuantaStor storage grids may be configured to address the needs of complex workflows which span sites and datacenters. QuantaStor’s storage grid technology is a built-in federated management system which enables QuantaStor servers to be combined together to simplify management and automation via CLI and REST APIs. The layered architecture of QuantaStor provides solution engineers with unprecedented flexibility and application design options that maximizes workload performance and fault-tolerance for a wide range of storage workloads. QuantaStor includes end-to-end security coverage enabling multi-layer data protection “on the wire” and “at rest” for enterprise and cloud storage deployments.Starting Price: $/TB based on scale -
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Google Cloud Platform
Google
Google Cloud Platform provides high-performance block storage through Google Cloud Persistent Disks, offering scalable and durable storage for virtual machine instances. These disks are available in different types, such as standard HDD and SSD, to accommodate varying workload demands. New customers can take advantage of $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, allowing them to explore block storage options and assess how GCP's persistent disks can support their specific use cases. Persistent Disks also offer features like snapshots and automatic replication, which provide extra layers of data protection and recovery options. Additionally, businesses can attach persistent disks to any VM, allowing for flexibility in scaling storage requirements as applications evolve. These persistent storage solutions are fully integrated with GCP's compute services, ensuring fast and reliable access to data.">
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CloudPe
Leapswitch Networks
CloudPe is a global cloud solutions provider offering scalable and secure cloud technologies tailored for businesses of all sizes. As a collaborative venture between Leapswitch Networks and Strad Solutions, CloudPe combines extensive industry expertise to deliver innovative services. Key Offerings: Virtual Machines: High-performance VMs designed for various business needs, including hosting websites, building applications, and data processing. GPU Instances: NVIDIA-powered GPUs for AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing, available on-demand. Kubernetes-as-a-Service: Simplified container orchestration for deploying and managing containerized applications efficiently. S3-Compatible Storage: Highly scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Load Balancers: Intelligent load balancing to distribute traffic evenly across resources, ensuring fast and reliable performance. Why Choose CloudPe? 1. Reliability 2. Cost Efficiency 3. Instant DeploymentStarting Price: ₹931/month -
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BVR CLOUD
BVR CLOUD
BVR CLOUD is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides Cloud Products Ranging from Virtual Machines to Managed Satellites. Currently, it Provides More than 50 Products." BVR CLOUD Products Includes Virtual Machines Baremetal Servers GPU Kubernetes Virtual Desktops Onetime Bandwidth Object Storage Block Storage Longterm Store Longterm Store Plus Content Delivery Network Cloud firewall Managed Satellites Audio/Video Streaming Transcoder Loadbalancer, etc.Starting Price: $10 -
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it.">
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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
The simplest cloud platform for developers & teams. Deploy, manage, and scale cloud applications faster and more efficiently on DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes managing infrastructure easy for teams and businesses, whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand. DigitalOcean App Platform: Build, deploy, and scale apps quickly using a simple, fully managed solution. We’ll handle the infrastructure, app runtimes and dependencies, so that you can push code to production in just a few clicks. Use a simple, intuitive, and visually rich experience to rapidly build, deploy, manage, and scale apps. Secure apps automatically. We create, manage and renew your SSL certificates and also protect your apps from DDoS attacks. Focus on what matters the most: building awesome apps. Let us handle provisioning and managing infrastructure, operating systems, databases, application runtimes, and other dependencies.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Akamai Cloud
Akamai
Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) is the world’s most distributed cloud computing platform, designed to help businesses deploy low-latency, high-performance applications anywhere. It delivers GPU acceleration, managed Kubernetes, object storage, and compute instances optimized for AI, media, and SaaS workloads. With flat, predictable pricing and low egress fees, Akamai Cloud offers a transparent and cost-effective alternative to traditional hyperscalers. Its global infrastructure ensures faster response times, improved reliability, and data sovereignty across key regions. Developers can scale securely using Akamai’s firewall, database, and networking solutions, all managed through an intuitive interface or API. Backed by enterprise-grade support and compliance, Akamai Cloud empowers organizations to innovate confidently at the edge. -
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OVHcloud
OVH
OVHcloud puts complete freedom in the hands of technologists and businesses, for anyone to master right from the start. We are a global technology company serving developers, entrepreneurs, and businesses with dedicated server, software and infrastructure building blocks to manage, secure, and scale their data. Throughout our history, we have always challenged the status quo and set out to make technology accessible and affordable. In our rapidly evolving digital world, we believe an integral part of our future is an open ecosystem and open cloud, where all can continue to thrive and customers can choose when, where and how to manage their data. We are a global company trusted by more than 1.5 million customers. We manufacture our servers, own and manage 30 data centers, and operate our own fiber-optic network. From our range of products, our support, thriving ecosystem, and passionate employees, to our commitment to social responsibility—we are open to power your data.Starting Price: $3.50 per month -
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Serverspace
Serverspace
Automated, simple, and affordable to everyone. Get started building your cool digital stuff right now. Billing charges by the minute. Only for active services. It is easy to modify configurations even after deployment. In seconds. Infrastructure availability is 99.9%. Guaranteed by the agreement. Xeon Gold CPUs and NVMe SSDs perform better in benchmarks. Store and run any databases, containers, media, and sites. Deploy app runtime, conduct analytics, implement DevOps, blockchain, AI, etc. Discover your personal cloud solution. Lightning fast and stunning simple. Managing a cloud infrastructure has never been easier. To reduce the time it takes to deploy VMs, we keep them in a dedicated, renewable pool. When you create a VM, the control panel makes a request to this pool. This reduces the average deployment time to 40 seconds. A control panel is designed within the Single Page Application architecture. After the first page has been loaded, all pages load instantly, without lag.Starting Price: $4.55 per month -
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Vultr
Vultr
Easily deploy cloud servers, bare metal, and storage worldwide! Our high performance compute instances are perfect for your web application or development environment. As soon as you click deploy, the Vultr cloud orchestration takes over and spins up your instance in your desired data center. Spin up a new instance with your preferred operating system or pre-installed application in just seconds. Enhance the capabilities of your cloud servers on demand. Automatic backups are extremely important for mission critical systems. Enable scheduled backups with just a few clicks from the customer portal. Our easy-to-use control panel and API let you spend more time coding and less time managing your infrastructure. -
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Scaleway
Scaleway
The Cloud that makes sense. From high-performance cloud ecosystem to hyperscale green datacenters, Scaleway provides the foundation for digital success. Cloud platform designed for developers & growing companies. All you need to create, deploy and scale your infrastructure in the cloud. Compute, GPU, Bare Metal & Containers. Evolutive & Managed Storage. Network. IoT. The largest choice of dedicated servers to succeed in the most demanding projects. High-end dedicated servers Web Hosting. Domain Names Services. Take advantage of our cutting-edge expertise to host your hardware in our resilient, high-performance and secure data centers. Private Suite & Cage. Rack, 1/2 & 1/4 Rack. Scaleway data centers. Scaleway is driving 6 data centers in Europe and offers cloud solutions to customers in more that 160 countries around the world. Our Excellence team: Experts by your side 24/7 year round Discover how we help our customers to use, tune & optimize their platforms with skilled expert -
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Zadara
Zadara Storage
Zadara is enterprise storage made easy. Any data type. Any protocol. Any location. Get Zadara — on your premises or with your chosen cloud provider — and you get more than industry-leading enterprise storage. You get a fully-managed, pay-only-for-what-you-use service that eliminates the cost and complexity typically associated with enterprise storage.Starting Price: $0.02/GB/month -
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Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Google
Reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances. HDD offers low-cost storage when bulk throughput is of primary importance. SSD offers consistently high performance for both random-access workloads and bulk throughput. Both types can be sized up to 64 TB. With multi-reader mounting, many virtual machines can read data from a single Persistent Disk. Attaching a disk to more virtual machines does not affect aggregate performance or cost. No longer worry about undersizing your block devices. Persistent Disk gives you unlimited flexibility by allowing you to resize your storage while it’s in use by one or more virtual machines with no downtime. For maximum flexibility and minimal effort, snapshots are geo-replicated and available for restore in all regions by default. Snapshots of a block device can take place in minutes rather than hours. Persistent Disks are automatically encrypted to protect your data, in transit or at rest.Starting Price: $0.040 per GB -
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Elastic Volume Service (EVS) provides highly durable block storage for cloud servers such as Elastic Cloud Servers (ECS) and Bare Metal Servers (BMS). EVS offers 99.9999999% durability and as little as 1 millisecond of read/write latency for a broad range of mission-critical applications. You can choose from EVS disks with high I/O, general purpose SSD, or ultra-high I/O. Whatever your storage demands, there is always a great solution at a reasonable price, and with EVS disks you can always add space without disrupting services. If the capacity of an EVS disk is insufficient, you can immediately increase block storage space, even if the disk is currently in use. In just a few clicks, you can scale a system disk up to 1 TB and a data disk up to 32 TB, all without any disruption to your workloads. Data on EVS disks is encrypted using the industry-standard AES-256 encryption algorithm and keys.Starting Price: $0.054 per GB per month
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simplyblock
simplyblock
Simplyblock provides a distributed storage solution for IO-intensive and latency-sensitive container workloads in the cloud, offering an alternative to Elastic Block Storage services. The storage solution enables thin provisioning, encryption, compression, storage virtualization, and more. Ultra-high performance at low TCO, offering available for AWS, fully containerized, deployment. Up to 100x improved cost-to-performance over currently prevailing software-defined storage technologies like Ceph. Start from single node, grow to 255 nodes in a single cluster. Scales safely with zero downtime. Performance scales linearly. Storage entities (logical volumes) are provisioned and attached on cluster-level, no manual configuration required. Drop-in replacement for your current k8s storage solution. Offers easy integration via StorageClass. Write concurrently on multiple containers and nodes via distributed file system support.Starting Price: $20/TB/month -
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DRBD
LINBIT
DRBD® (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is an open source, software‑based, shared‑nothing block storage replication solution for Linux, designed primarily to deliver high-performance, high‑availability (HA) data services by mirroring local block devices between nodes in real time, either synchronously or asynchronously. Implemented deep in the Linux kernel as a virtual block‑device driver, DRBD ensures local read performance with efficient write‑through replication to peer(s). User‑space utilities like drbdadm, drbdsetup, and drbdmeta enable declarative configuration, metadata management, and administration across installations. Originally built for two‑node HA clusters, DRBD 9.x extends support to multi‑node replication and integration into software‑defined storage (SDS) systems such as LINSTOR, making it suitable for cloud‑native environments.Starting Price: Free -
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DataCore SANsymphony
DataCore Software
Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility. -
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Qlik Replicate
Qlik
Qlik Replicate is a high-performance data replication tool offering optimized data ingestion from a broad array of data sources and platforms and seamless integration with all major big data analytics platforms. Replicate supports bulk replication as well as real-time incremental replication using CDC (change data capture). Our unique zero-footprint architecture eliminates unnecessary overhead on your mission-critical systems and facilitates zero-downtime data migrations and database upgrades. Database replication enables you to move or consolidate data from a production database to a newer version of the database, another type of computing environment, or an alternative database management system, to migrate data from SQL Server to Oracle, for example. Data replication can be used to offload production data from a database, and load it to operational data stores or data warehouses for reporting or analytics. -
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Pure Storage
Pure Storage
Drive IT transformation, reduce risk, and enhance business outcomes. Embrace peace of mind with our commitment to zero downtime, continuously monitored, and proactively managed for you. Eliminate multi-silo complexity and planning uncertainty. Experience a unified data services platform with a single operating environment, across public, on-prem, and hybrid cloud. The best choice for how you store and manage your data, period. From traditional ownership to SLA-driven storage-as-a-service, you’re covered. -
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Oracle Big Data Service
Oracle
Oracle Big Data Service makes it easy for customers to deploy Hadoop clusters of all sizes, with VM shapes ranging from 1 OCPU to a dedicated bare metal environment. Customers choose between high-performance NVmE storage or cost-effective block storage, and can grow or shrink their clusters. Quickly create Hadoop-based data lakes to extend or complement customer data warehouses, and ensure that all data is both accessible and managed cost-effectively. Query, visualize and transform data so data scientists can build machine learning models using the included notebook with its R, Python and SQL support. Move customer-managed Hadoop clusters to a fully-managed cloud-based service, reducing management costs and improving resource utilization.Starting Price: $0.1344 per hour -
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Azure Disk Storage
Microsoft
Designed to be used with Azure Virtual Machines and Azure VMware Solution (in preview), Azure Disk Storage offers high-performance, durable block storage for your mission- and business-critical applications. Confidently migrate to Azure infrastructure with four disk storage options for the cloud—–Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD—to optimize costs and performance for your workload. Get high performance with sub-millisecond latency for throughput and transaction-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle. Run clustered or high-availability applications cost effectively in the cloud using shared disks. Get consistent enterprise-grade durability with a 0% annual failure rate. Meet demand without performance disruption by using Ultra Disk Storage. Secure your data with automatic encryption using Microsoft-managed keys or your own. -
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Catalyst Cloud
Catalyst Cloud
As New Zealand's local innovator in true cloud computing, we are making the cloud more accessible to accelerate the growth of our digital economy in Aotearoa. It’s easy to get started with pay as you go, curated services, standardized APIs, and simple web dashboard. And then it’s just as easy to scale as you need. Why not give our service a try and sign up for a free trial? We were the first in New Zealand to offer a CNCF certified Kubernetes service. And, we were the first to offer the five essential characteristics of cloud computing according to NIST. We’ve just scratched the surface of what’s possible in the cloud, and we want to do so much more. Proud members of the open source movement we believe open standards deliver superior value and freedom to our customers. Our cloud is built on OpenStack and has an open API standard used by many cloud providers world-wide.Starting Price: $0.017 per hour -
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Cloud-A
Cloud-A
Your data is guaranteed to live on Canadian soil in our PIPEDA compliant cloud, putting your concerns about Data Localization and Data Residency to rest. With our pre-cached images, we reduce delivery time from weeks to seconds. Sorry if you don’t have time to get a cup of coffee. All of your private network traffic is encrypted and encapsulated by default, it's virtually a private cloud. We run our cloud on the fastest hardware around. Pound for pound, even our smallest instances outperform our competitors. We have the fastest high performance Canadian SSD cloud server solution. Enabling software development teams to reduce project labour costs by on average 20% and infrastructure costs by half. Dramatically increase your team's productivity, and reduce everyone's stress. We take care of redundancy, uptime and midnight trips to the datacenter, making managing your infrastructure worry-free while giving you full control and visibility over your costs.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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SkyAtlas
SkyAtlas
Move to an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure to save time and money when delivering your mission critical IT services! Our platform is created on OpenStack technology that manages the world's largest IT infrastructures, such as NASA, HP, Rackspace, and eBay. We are the first OpenStack public cloud service provider in the MENA region. We provide 7x24x365 expert technical support bundled with the SkyAtlas cloud infrastructure. Our cloud engineers are ready to answer your questions via e-mail, phone, or live chat. SkyAtlas API allows you to manage your cloud infrastructure in a simple and programmatic way. You can automate routine tasks with RESTful SkyAtlas API that you are familiar with in the SkyAtlas administrator interface. Without any manual intervention, resource requirements of your servers are tracked in real-time, and the processor and memory values of your existing servers are automatically increased or decreased.Starting Price: $0.0494 per hour -
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iWeb
iWeb
Since 1996, iWeb’s scalable hosting solutions have helped organizations around the world turn big ideas into powerful brands and applications. Now part of Leaseweb, today we share both the innovative spirit of our smallest customers and the global footprint of our most established. Instantly deploy dedicated servers across Leaseweb’s global network of data centers, with online sales and assistance. Host your servers on a highly resilient network that delivers uninterrupted availability month after month. Partnering with iWeb means qualified system administrators and a friendly help team available for you. We work with our partners at Intel and Microsoft to bring you their latest technologies before anyone else. We embrace the innovative power of open source programming, with Linux hosting and OpenStack cloud servers. And we offer the latest, most energy-efficient server hardware.Starting Price: $0.06 per hour -
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Deploy and customize flash-backed Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB with up to 48,000 IOPS. Increase storage capacity or adjust performance in real-time to quickly adapt to changes in workload demands. Choose predefined tiers or fine-tune your environment. Guard against data loss during maintenance or failures. Lock-in costs with no hidden fees or additional charges. Provision block storage in IBM Cloud® global data centers.Starting Price: $0.00007 per hour
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume provide customers reliable, high-performance block storage designed to work with a range of virtual machines and bare metal instances. With built-in redundancy, Block Volumes are persistent and durable beyond the lifespan of a virtual machine and can scale to 1 PB per compute instance. All volumes have built-in durability and run on redundant hardware to achieve high reliability. Back up block and boot volumes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage to enable frequent recovery points. Easily optimize storage size without provisioning constraints. Extend existing block and boot volumes from 50 GB to 32 TB while they are online, and without any impact to applications and workloads. Clone existing volumes or restore from backups to move to larger volumes. Easily clone existing block volumes without initiating the backup and restore process.
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Utho
Utho
High-performance cloud infrastructure at affordable prices. Manage easily with an intuitive interface. No tech expertise is needed. 24/7 dedicated team, personalized assistance, and answers. Advanced encryption, authentication, and 24/7 monitoring. Competitive prices without compromising quality. Turn your idea into a solution with Utho Cloud products and services, build any solution. Save time by deploying any app at just a click from our 1 click deploy apps and go live in minutes. Finding the right cloud can be hard, especially with the best available options where developers can access cloud resources from anywhere and anytime. Deploy cloud resources from seven data center locations across the globe to provide the lowest latency for the best user experience. We know how important support is for you, We're just a call, WhatsApp, or email away to help you at any time you need. Our pricing is transparent and pay only what you use.Starting Price: $162.69 per month -
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Nutanix Unified Storage
Nutanix
With 10 months of payback, realize faster digital transformation with a unified storage platform. Integrated ransomware protection makes the transformation even smoother. Achieve 421%, 5-year ROI, and 63% more efficient IT storage management. Nutanix Unified Storage is a software-defined data services platform that simplifies enterprise data storage operations while offering the speed and flexibility needed to build modern applications and services no matter where they are deployed, on the core, cloud, or edge. Consumption-based model to tackle exponential growth in unstructured data while meeting performance requirements. Integrated data security and analytics provide deep data insights to prevent, detect, and recover from ransomware and cyber-attacks. Simplify management, automation, and availability with a consolidated data services platform. Extend Unified Storage platform across core, edge, or cloud while supporting multiple protocols to accommodate all your workloads and users. -
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IBM Storage Ceph
IBM
Consolidate block, file, and object data on-premises with an enterprise storage platform that delivers a cloud-native experience. IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while helping reduce costs and provisioning times. IT Leaders are shifting from a traditional storage approach towards integrated enterprise storage platforms that can handle diverse modern workloads seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid environments to simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and adapt to new and changing requirements. IBM Storage Ceph is the only enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data protocols within a single software-defined solution that can support most enterprise operational workloads to help reduce long-term costs of operating dedicated storage systems, delivering a cloud-like experience on-premises.