Provides Flexibility to Clients in How They Choose to
Develop and Manage IT Needs and Expense Structure
Farmington Hills,
MI, May 10, 2010 – Logicalis, a $1
billion provider of integrated information and communications
technology (ICT) solutions and services, has launched the Logicalis
Enterprise Cloud to meet the growing needs of its clients. The use
of cloud computing is a growing trend among organizations looking
to reduce the infrastructure, maintenance and energy consumption
costs of their computing environments while continuing to respond
to changing business requirements. Industry analysts forecast a
rapid formation of cloud offerings, with IDC predicting the cloud
services market topping $42 billion by 2012, and Dataquest
predicting that between 28 - 37 percent of all server shipments by
2012 will be for cloud building. The new service from Logicalis is
in direct response to market demand. It is a natural extension to
Logicalis' expertise in the design and implementation of highly
virtualized computing, storage and networking infrastructures as
well as its investments in enterprise-class managed services.
“Over the past 10 years we have made
significant investments in managed services and data center
facilities, combined with key partners such as Cisco, HP, IBM,
VMware, and Microsoft, we are in the prime position to help
customers build and deploy their cloud strategies,” stated
Terry Flood, Logicalis President.
Logicalis will offer a range of cloud
solutions and services to the U.S. market, including:
- Consult - Provide architect
level consulting service to help customers assess, plan and deliver
cloud strategies to their organizations.
- Build - Design and build
private cloud environments for single or cooperative clouds.
- Manage - Provide managed
services to remotely manage customers’ private cloud
environments.
- Operate - Build and operate
the “Logicalis Enterprise Cloud” public cloud infrastructure
Building a cloud computing offering allows
Logicalis the flexibility to provide clients options in how they
choose to develop and manage their IT needs and expense structure.
Shifting capital expenses to a monthly service allows organizations
to focus on their core business and not the day to day challenges
of managing a data center. The Logicalis Enterprise Cloud
focuses on building an enterprise class offering capable of running
business critical applications. It offers customers a more
flexible solution compared to some of the other cloud
providers.
“Our solution is built from a flexible
computing architecture that provides the computing power, memory,
storage and bandwidth necessary to create and manage multiple
virtual operating environments,” stated Mike Martin, Logicalis
Director of Cloud Computing. “The containers are configurable
to our clients’ needs, rather than a standard set of options that
often provide too little or too much computing power.” In
addition, Logicalis managed services are added to remove the
management burden, which can be complicated with cloud
solutions.
The new offering also addresses industry
regulations such as those in retail, healthcare, and financial
sectors. This is turning the heads of independent software vendors
as a way to offer a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform without
the need for a large capital investment in a data center.
For more information about Logicalis, visit
http://www.us.logicalis.com/.
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 and collaboration; data
center optimization; application development and integration; and
outsourcing and managed services.
With its international headquarters in the UK,
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 6,500
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 annualized revenues in
excess of $1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, Latin
America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of
the leading IT and Communications service providers, specializing
in the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $4.2
billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM
Stock Exchanges (LSE/JSE: DTC).
For more information about Logicalis, visit
http://www.us.logicalis.com/.