Slough, UK, 4 May 2011 –
International solutions provider, Logicalis, today announced the
launch of its IBM Power 795 cloud platform, featuring a range of
business analytics hosted services based on IBM Cognos. The
launch will offer customers access to powerful business
intelligence and business analytics solutions without the need to
acquire, deploy and operate their own hardware
infrastructure. Logicalis also announced its IBM
Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, enabling customers to
leverage services such as on-demand disaster recovery, application
test and development, or full application hosting.
Tom Kelly, managing director of Logicalis UK,
commented; “Cloud and business analytics are two of the key
disruptive innovations of our time. Combining our expertise
in cloud, deep experience with IBM Power 795, and the world-class
business analytics skills of our recent acquisition, Inca Software,
we can help customers leverage the transformational insight of
business analytics with the flexibility and cost efficiency of
cloud.
“We can offer the full suite of IBM
intelligence and analytics software, or a ‘slice of Power
technology’ for those wishing to move off legacy or less capable
mid-range or high-end platforms. Our partnership with IBM now
extends across servers and storage platforms, software, cloud and
analytics, and I believe that as IBM look to build a Smarter
Planet, Logicalis has become their go-to Smarter Partner.”
The new services will be based out of
Logicalis UK’s Tier 3+ high density data centre (HDDC). The IBM
Power 795 will leverage Logicalis’ flexible HDDC design and the
any-rack water cooling facilities, and will utilise the existing
cloud storage solution from NetApp and CA Technologies’ management
platforms. In addition to the hosted analytics services,
Logicalis’ range of disaster recovery and application test and
development services will support customers migrating from IBM
System i platforms by offering a hosted AIX and test and
development environment.
Simon Daykin, CTO of Logicalis UK added, “Our
recognised innovation in Intel cloud is now complemented by this
major IBM investment, with both systems able to work together to
offer a total cloud computing environment to our customers.
IBM’s Power 795 is one of the fastest and most capable platforms on
the planet, and we are now able to offer customers and their
applications a slice of processing capacity to run major production
workloads. By layering business analytics as our first hosted
service, this immediately opens up deep business insights to even
the smallest of organisations who may have felt that analytics was
out of their reach. This is the disruptive power of cloud –
offering businesses and the public sector new and compelling
services that they could not technically build or commercially
afford in the do-it-all-yourself consumption models.”
Business analytics turns the rapid growth in
creation and collection of raw data into true business information,
intelligence and value, enabling private and public sector
organisations to dramatically improve how they see themselves,
their customers, or their citizens. Business Analytics and Cloud
form two of the four key growth strategy pillars of IBM, which also
include Smarter Planet and Growth Markets.
Ian Stone, Software Sales Director at Inca
Software, Logicalis’ business analytics division commented, “The
availability of cloud hosted IBM Cognos business intelligence and
analytics solutions heralds a new era in helping organisations make
smarter planning and business decisions. Prior to the
Logicalis acquisition, Inca recognised that while the CFO and COO
saw the immense business value in adopting analytics, the
complexity and cost of provisioning new hardware was, in many
cases, a barrier to adoption. At a time when commercial
organisations are looking for 20/20 vision of their business, and
politicians and civil servants need to make massive organisational
transformation; having access to cloud hosted analytics will help
them become smarter organisations faster.”
Logicalis’ initial services will be a fully
hosted IBM Cognos environment, and the company intends to extend
this into ‘Analytics-as-a-Service’ by the end of 2011.
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 2,000 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