Company to Design, Deploy, and Manage Private, Public and ‘As A
Service’ Cloud Solutions; Building £7.5m High Density Data Centre
to Bolster Services Portfolio
Slough, 5th November – International solutions
provider, Logicalis, today announces the launch of a dedicated
cloud consulting, deployment and managed services group, to engage
with commercial and public sector organisations in the development
of private, community and ‘co-operative hybrid' cloud
infrastructures. The group will leverage Logicalis' expertise in
the design and implementation of highly virtualised computing,
storage and networking infrastructures, and its investments in
enterprise class managed services and in-house data centre
facilities, to offer a range of private, public, and ‘as a service'
cloud offerings.
“Cloud may well have ascended the hype curve in the last 12
months, but the implications of its emergence are a challenging
reality to those setting strategy for architecting and acquiring IT
in the coming years. You cannot build or procure hype, and so cloud
must become commercially and operationally viable if it is to
benefit private and public sector organisations,” commented Tom
Kelly, managing director of Logicalis UK, adding;
“In forming this group, customers can exploit the vision and
consultancy bred from our expertise in advanced data centre
virtualisation and managed services, to develop an independent
strategy that builds and integrates private and public cloud
services and solutions into the structure of their businesses,”
added Kelly.
To fulfil demand for its cloud services group, Logicalis
recently began development of a new £7.5million data centre
adjoining its UK headquarters. The facility will bolster Logicalis'
capability to deliver a range of cloud ‘infrastructure and platform
as a service' and ‘software as a service' offerings upon its
completion in May 2010.
Says Kelly; “During the past three years we have been making
significant investments in managed services and wholly owned
private data centre facilities and, combined with key partners such
as Cisco, HP, IBM, VMware, Microsoft, NetApp, EMC, CA, and BMC, we
are in the prime position to help customers build their own private
clouds, augmented by our own specialist cloud services.”
Cloud infrastructure and software services are now becoming
commercially, architecturally and operationally significant to
private and public sector organisations, and the global market is
predicted to reach some $42billion by 2012.
Logicalis' cloud group will offer a range of solutions and
services to the UK market, including;
- Consult – develop cloud strategy
- Design – vendor independent private, community
and ‘co-operative hybrid' cloud design
- Build – private, community and ‘co-operative
hybrid' cloud building
- Host – fully managed private and cooperative
community cloud hosting from its own data centres
- Manage – customer site private and community
cloud managed services
- Operate – deliver a range of ‘as a service'
offerings including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
Chris Gabriel, head of solutions for Logicalis, concludes; “The
public sector sees cloud as a fast-track route to delivering
co-operative or shared ICT services. These will not be whole-scale
G-Clouds, but regional or local community clouds, delivering secure
and robust services. Our experience in operating complex community
public sector networks such as the PSBA (Public Sector Broadband
Aggregation) in Wales, combined with our strength in highly
virtualised data centre infrastructure and services, enables us to
work with individual or public sector communities to deliver a
cloud architecture and operational model that meets their
individual or group needs.”
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated ICT solutions,
delivering secure, converged computing and communications
infrastructure and services.
We can provide the architecture, deployment, integration and
management of networks and systems to deliver leading edge
solutions that create value for our customers and meet their
business needs now and into the future.
Logicalis is a trusted provider of multi-vendor solutions and
services operating in the most complex and challenging business
environments. Our relationships with the industry's leading
technology suppliers, combined with our business understanding
enable you to invest with confidence.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited (DTC), a $4.0
billion multi-national Group listed on the AIM market of the LSE
and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With international
headquarters in the UK, the Logicalis Group has operations in the
US, UK, Germany, and South America.
For further information please
contact:
Carina Parmar/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte
Sandy
Cohesive Communications
T: +44 (0) 1291 626200
E: Logicalis@cohesive.uk.com