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About the project

Gold Fields is one of the top 10 gold mining firms in the world with operations in South Africa, Australia, Peru and Chile. The project consisted of outsourcing its entire Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure while maintaining the standard of management and operational excellence. An important part of these services was the security solutions managed through the Security Operation Centre, both for IT and OT, with a significant deployment of Cisco technologies.

  • Digitisation of the mining industry

Case Study Highlights

Hyperconnectivity in the mine

Implementation of a scalable broadband network with a high level of availability.

Bridging the technology gap

In areas such as networking, storage infrastructure and server infrastructure.

Further integration of the value chain

The project has provided agility and resources to the IT department to address the new needs of internal customers and contribute to the maintenance of the Mine's production plan.

Operational continuity of the mine

We enable the optimisation of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans.

Robust and mature Cybersecurity architecture

It makes it possible to successfully address a variety of threats to both its IT and OT infrastructure.

What others say about us

    “As a company, we were able to address the digital transformation process while gaining new technology capabilities such as in-mine hyper-connectivity with broadband, and infrastructure optimisation through Data Centres. In addition, we created a secure and reliable digital workspace, thanks to collaboration technologies.”

    José Ishikawa, IT Manager for the Americas at Gold Fields

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