Offers Organisations, Public Sector and ISVs
Assured Transition from Virtualisation to Cloud Computing
Architectures
Slough, UK, 11th October 2010:
International solutions provider, Logicalis, today announced the
general availability of a new portfolio of cloud solutions and
services - Private Cloud, Infrastructure as a Service,
Cooperative Cloud and Cloud Hosting. Logicalis now 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 from virtualisation to cloud computing.
Logicalis’ cloud portfolio, targeted at
commercial customers, public sector shared cloud services, and ISVs
needing a secure and robust hosting environment, offers customers
unprecedented levels of clarity and flexibility to:
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Create their own private cloud using
Logicalis’ Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service (BOCS)
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Migrate infrastructure to Logicalis’
Infrastructure as a Service
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Leverage Logicalis’ unique hybrid
Cooperative Cloud for a range of critical services such as disaster
recovery, application test and development, and capacity burst
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Have applications fully hosted on
Logicalis’ Cloud Hosting service.
Simon Daykin, CTO at Logicalis,
explains; “Cloud computing represents a sea-change in IT capability
and consumption, yet most organisations are naturally and rightly
cautious about jumping in with both feet. This is because
most cloud providers are polarised between private on-site cloud
and completely hosted cloud solutions.
“Our range of cloud solutions and services is
designed to allow customers to make the journey to cloud in
whichever form is right for their business or technology needs.
To achieve the transformational benefits of cloud you need to
remove the polarisation and allow the customer to draw the line
where they see fit. Logicalis can help customers build their
own private cloud, deliver a fully managed ‘cloud in a box’ through
our BOCS solution, leverage Logicalis’ investment in hosted cloud
or use our Cooperative Cloud to blend them all. Cloud is
about solving a need and flexibility is essential.”
Logicalis has also expanded on its existing
range of consultancy services, offering a specific Cloud Migration
and Risk Assessment (CMRA) option.
Chris Gabriel, director of solutions and
marketing, Logicalis UK, comments: “The move to cloud computing
requires organisations to appraise which applications and services
best fit the cloud model, and demands new processes and service
management techniques. It is a testing journey. Our skills as
one of the UK’s leading virtualisation providers coupled with major
investments in data centre and cloud hosting services, means we can
support customers every step of the way. Our CMRA service
helps customers plan for the long term and identify the quick
wins.”As systems integrator, managed services provider, and
managed hosting provider, Logicalis is able to deliver cloud in a
way that meets a customer’s specific needs. Treated like any
other ICT service, Logicalis’ cloud portfolio is governed by
contracted SLAs.
“When it comes to cloud computing, our
customers want to understand who owns the Service Level Agreement,”
says Daykin. “We must treat cloud like any other ICT service,
because to be relevant it must support the business critical
environments of commercial and public sector organisations.
Our experience in the data centre over many years has taught
us that customers care about building platforms that can support
their businesses. Logicalis is ensuring that our customers
can adopt cloud with confidence.”
The Logicalis Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service
and hosted cloud services are built on solutions from Cisco, NetApp
and CA Technologies.
To view the latest Logicalis UK Cloud
Q&A videos click
here or visit Logicalis’ YouTube channel at
www.youtube.com/user/LogicalisUK
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 service providers, specialising in
the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec
Limited, a $3.7 billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg
and London AIM Stock Exchanges.
http://www.uk.logicalis.com/
For further information please
contact:
Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte Sandy
Cohesive Communications
T: +44 (0) 1291 626200
E: logicalis@cohesive.uk.com