eHosting DataFort Hosts VoiceTrust's Digital Payment Platform

eHosting DataFort (eHDF) has been appointed to host VoiceTrust's Digital Payment Platform in Dubai to provide 24/7 service availability and facilitate the management of a large volume of transactions on a regional and global level. VoiceTrust is a global provider of digital payments and voice biometric solutions and technologies operating across the Americas, Europe and South Asia, Middle East and Africa. The Middle East operation was established in 2009 with Dubai serving as a software development, sales and professional service centre. The company's disinclination to invest in huge capital and human resources to host its service in the region served as a key influencer to opt for a managed service provider such as eHDF.

Additionally, VoiceTrust was looking for an entity that brings the right infrastructure and support. Hosting being a specialized mandate that requires significant investment and staff resources, VoiceTrust opted for eHDF to cut costs and offload the most critical monitoring operations. eHosting DataFort was selected primarily for the team's technical expertise, close proximity to VoiceTrust's regional office, infrastructure capabilities, as well as its maturity of monitoring and supporting procedures that assure 99.99 per cent service availability.

The appointment comes at a time when the global mobile payment transactions market is expected to exceed US$171.5 billion this year, according to a report from Gartner. The number of mobile payment users is set to reach 212.2 million in 2012, up from 160.5 million in 2011. In order to capture a large share of this growth, VoiceTrust is looking towards securing its platform against downtime.