Verizon’s Secure Cloud Interconnect Service Now Available for Public Sector

October 15, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from EDGL. Author: Deena M. Amato-McCoy.

In effort to remove another barrier to the adoption of cloud computing across the public sector, Verizon is giving this segment access to its Secure Cloud Interconnect service, a software-defined networking offering that delivers the security, reliability, performance, simplicity and efficiency needed to support mission-critical workloads and applications.

Public sector organizations across federal, state and local, education and public safety are embracing the benefits of cloud computing, however many struggle with the complexity of seamlessly connecting, managing and securing their cloud environments — an issue that can extend across multiple clouds and data centers. Verizon’s Secure Cloud Interconnect service helps simplify this complexity by providing a secure, private Internet connection that features consumption-based bandwidth, pre-provisioned on-demand resources, application performance, multiple classes of service and usage-based billing models with simple provisioning and management via a centralized online portal…

The service – now available at more than 30 locations across the Americas, Latin America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region – supports cloud (public, private and hybrid) and co-location solutions from multiple connected cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Verizon, as well as data center providers, such as CoreSite, Equinix, Verizon…

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