Virtual Data Center optimizes 'cloud computing' offering new ways of pricing and delivering IT services
LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BT today revealed that it will be launching its new Virtual Data Center (VDC) service in the coming months, aimed at helping large business and public sector organizations succeed in the current economy and prepare for the future. It provides a dynamic and virtualized infrastructure platform that enables them to consume their IT and networking infrastructure as a service and forms the base for future cloud services.
The BT VDC, showcased by BT today at the Handelsblatt Telecommunications Market Europe conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, marks the first of several networked IT product and service innovations and updates to be announced by BT Global Services this year. BT's investment has been focused on supporting portfolio innovations in voice/unified communications, network services, security, mobility, data centers and contact centers infrastructure.
BT Virtual Data Center service will, uniquely in the market, be rolled-out across datacenters in multiple countries in EMEA and this will enable BT to provide true enterprise class services. The second key differentiator with competitors is that BT offers servers, storage, networks and security that is orchestrated and automatically provisioned through its online portal. Customers can change the infrastructure easily in real-time throughout the duration of the contract through the portal.
BT customers will also be able to virtualize many of their networking and IT needs to the required service levels. By using BT's enterprise class infrastructure, BT VDC delivers to large organizations the benefits of enterprise class 'cloud computing' to customers at a significant saving against a standard hosted infrastructure deployment.
'Any Infrastructure as a Service offering that can provide a platform where organizations can scale their computing, network, and storage requirements in real time, according to their needs, will have obvious appeal,' said Roy Illsley, Senior Research Analyst at research company Butler Group.
As part of the BT VDC offering, customers will be able to purchase virtualized components and access them over a pre-provisioned infrastructure. Virtual server, storage, security and networking capabilities will be available, automated and orchestrated through an online portal and supported by a single service desk.
Hanif Lalani, Chief Executive of BT Global Services, said: 'In today's turbulent, global economy companies need flexible, efficient, and secure networked IT services to sharpen their competitive edge, innovate how they do business and get to market first.
'The launch of BT VDC services is just one example of innovation in of our Global Services product portfolio, illustrating that BT continues to invest in and innovate our capabilities to ensure customers have the right services to run their business in 2009. BT VDC will deliver a new and enhanced customer experience. Having the click-to-build and buy facility will give them flexibility and ease of provisioning.
