Slough, UK, 09 March 2011 – Logicalis announced
today it has achieved the Cisco Powered Private Cloud designation
as an extension of its existing Cisco® Master Managed Services
Certification. These designations recognise Logicalis’ investment
in the ITIL® processes, practices and tools necessary to provide
high-quality cloud and managed services.
Tom Kelly, managing director of Logicalis UK, comments; “Cisco’s
accreditations demonstrate global support and market demand for
Logicalis’ hybrid cloud proposition. The option to integrate
private and hosted cloud is far more palatable to a business that
wants to exploit the elasticity of cloud computing with operational
demand, but also be assured of cloud ownership.”
Logicalis’ Cooperative Enterprise Cloud offers customers a
‘total cloud’ engagement from highly virtualised private cloud
through to a range of innovative hosted cloud solutions, backed by
consultancy services, to support customers on the journey to cloud
computing.
As a Cisco Powered Private Cloud (IaaS) designated partner,
Logicalis has demonstrated the ability to use cloud technology to
deliver infrastructure, platform or software as a service
capability.
“Logicalis’ investment in the Cisco Powered Cloud designation
demonstrates their expertise and ability to deliver Cisco based IT
as a Service. In today’s dynamic market environment, where
customers want choice, this is a real competitive differentiator,”
said Jeff Spagnola, vice president of sales for managed and cloud
services at Cisco.
As a Cisco Master Managed Services Certified Partner, Logicalis
has already demonstrated the ability to deliver sophisticated
solutions, met stringent requirements that reflect a depth of
capabilities, and undergone an independent audit by an objective
third-party auditor. Logicalis is also required to offer at
least two managed services using the resources and procedures
necessary to deploy, manage and support Cisco solutions.
Logicalis now has Cisco Powered managed services designations in
Cisco Powered Managed Connectivity, Cisco Powered Managed Contact
Centre, Cisco Powered Managed Data Centre, and Cisco Powered
Managed Unified Communications.
Cisco, the Cisco logo and Cisco TelePresence are registered
trademarks of Cisco Systems Inc. in the United States and certain
other countries. ITIL is a registered trademark, and a registered
community trademark, of the Office of Government Commerce, and is
registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an
international provider of integrated information and communications
technology (ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior
breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications &
collaboration; data centre; and professional and managed
services.
Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including
highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and
manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 5,000
corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this,
Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders
such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of $1 billion, from
operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and Asia Pacific,
and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading IT and
Communications solution integrators, specialising in the areas of
advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on
the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues in
excess of $4 billion.
For further information please
contact:
Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte
Sandy
Cohesive Communications
T: +44 (0) 1291 626200
E: logicalis@cohesive.uk.com