Powering Mobile Wallet Growth Across Africa with FlashGrid on Azure
November 20, 2025

When one of Africa’s leading banks set out to scale its mobile wallet, which is used by millions daily, it faced a major challenge: ensuring continuous availability and zero downtime while migrating to the cloud.
Working with Infinion Technologies, the bank achieved exactly that. Using FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC on Microsoft Azure, they modernized mission-critical systems, gained resilience across multiple Availability Zones, and reached 99.999% uptime—all while expanding financial access for millions of new customers.
Working with FlashGrid allowed us to design and deploy a robust Oracle RAC infrastructure on Azure. The solution delivers the high availability our customer needs to power its modernized mobile wallet, serving millions of people across Nigeria.”
Ibrahim Mukaila, Business Lead, Data and AI, Infinion Technologies
About FlashGrid
With FlashGrid, organizations build modern database infrastructure that power mission-critical operations. FlashGrid’s platform for public clouds, private clouds, and physical environments allows databases to achieve the best performance and uptime SLA.
FlashGrid’s Oracle and cloud experts provide 24/7 support with analysis, deployment and maintenance of database infrastructure, enabling maximum uptime through the entire lifecycle of applications. For more information visit www.flashgrid.io
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External resources
Oracle databases, even RAC, are supported on AWS, Azure, and GCP
Considerations for migrating heavy IO workloads to Azure, including Oracle