About EC INTELLIGENCE
An engineering company specialising in cloud, virtualisation and distributed storage
EC INTELLIGENCE supports organisations modernising their IT infrastructure with proven, manageable and durable open source technologies. Based in Casablanca, the company works across Morocco, West Africa and Europe.
We position ourselves as engineers, not resellers. We do not resell third-party licences.
Our mission
To design, deploy and operate infrastructure your teams can take over. A platform nobody masters becomes technical debt.
Our approach to open source
Technologies with no licence cost, whose code can be audited and whose skills can be transferred. Technical sovereignty starts with mastery, not with a contract.
A single point of contact
Every engagement is led by the engineer who scoped it. No handover to a team that took no part in the design.
Our values
Technical rigour
Our courses and engagements are built on the architectures we actually deploy, not on generic material.
Closeness and listening
Every engagement begins with a scoping interview: operational objectives, real constraints, the actual level of your teams.
Transparency and pedagogy
We document what we deliver and explain our architectural choices, so that your teams can challenge them.
Reversibility
The platforms we build must be operable without us. That is the test by which we judge a successful skills transfer.
Our areas of expertise
Nine domains, in engineering engagements as in training. Thirty-one catalogue courses, one hundred and twenty days of technical content.
Systems and operations
Linux administration, monitoring and operational readiness
Virtualisation
Proxmox VE, KVM, QEMU and libvirt, Nutanix AHV
Cloud
OpenStack and Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
Distributed storage
Ceph: block, object and file, multisite replication and disaster recovery
Containerisation
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and image registries
Automation and Infrastructure as Code
Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI and a GitOps approach
Cybersecurity
Centralised identity management, hardening and compliance
Digitalisation
Business tooling and integrated enterprise management
Migration
Leaving VMware: scoping, methodology and execution towards the target platform
Our founder
Bekroundjo Akoley Aristide
Founder and managing director — private cloud architect and trainer
Fourteen years of cloud and telecom engineering, including six years within the Orange group in Côte d'Ivoire — application support, technical quality and oversight of a Tier IV datacentre — then two years managing major incidents on the production estate of a Moroccan banking group, with ten OpenStack clusters and one hundred and ten hypervisors under his responsibility.
Telecommunications and networks engineer, graduate of INP-HB Yamoussoukro. Author of “Hands-On Ceph”, twenty-five practical labs. His online courses are followed by more than thirty thousand learners.
Certifications
Red Hat Delivery Specialist — Cloud Infrastructure
Red Hat Delivery Specialist — Red Hat Ceph Storage
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer
ISO/IEC 27005 Risk Manager
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v11)
ITIL Foundation V3
Our approach
Scoping
Analysis of the existing estate, operational constraints and objectives. Every engagement is preceded by a scoping phase and a detailed quotation.
Design
Sizing and detailed architecture, agreed with your teams before any deployment. Choices are documented and justified.
Deployment and validation
Go-live, then resilience testing under real conditions: node loss, site loss, effective restoration of a control plane.
Skills transfer
Training your teams on their own architecture, documented operating procedures and a lab environment maintained after the session.
Support
Long-term support, under a support contract whose level is agreed with you.
How we work
Engagement models
Fixed price — scope and deliverables agreed in the quotation
Managed time and materials — resources with production objectives
Support contract — keeping the platform operational
Support levels
Essential — response within 4 working hours
Advanced — response within 2 hours
Critical — response within 1 hour, with on-call cover
Our own software
Cleo ERP — an integrated management platform for African and French-speaking businesses.
Yonder — virtual machine migration from VMware to OpenStack, Proxmox VE and KubeVirt.
Our partnerships
Red Hat — Ready Business Partner
Lenovo — Business Partner
Legal information
EXPERTS COMPUTING INTELLIGENCE (EC INTELLIGENCE)
Limited liability company with share capital of MAD 100,000
RC Casablanca 551503 · IF 52589953 · ICE 003122764000003 · CNSS 4326572
La Marina, Tour Océanes 3, Bureau 03, Rez-de-jardin — Casablanca, Morocco
Managing director: Bekroundjo Akoley Aristide
Ready to collaborate with us?
Let us talk about your infrastructure and what you are looking to change.