Telus announces hybrid cloud offering in partnership with Microsoft and Cisco
December 2, 2015
Grazed from ComputerDealerNews. Author: David Yin.
It’s not everyday that a single announcement can bring three household names together in one room, but that is just what happened Tuesday. At a small gathering in downtown, the Telus announced that it is partnering with the software and networking giants to provide cloud aimed at the mid-market and large enterprise.
The managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering will include public, private and hybrid clouds, and is enabled both by its own, as well as Microsoft’s new data centres that are coming to Toronto and Quebec city in the new year, and Cisco’s Cloud Architecture. “What we’ve essentially done here… is the Telus Hybrid Cloud,” said Tom Jolly, vice president of IT and cloud services at Telus. “We are interworking Microsoft’s and Cisco’s technologies into the Microsoft Azure platform, as well as providing the ability to integrate customer on-premise data centres.”…
He explained that any private cloud services will be offered using Telus’ data centres, while Microsoft’s Canadian data centres are responsible for public cloud. Both are connected by Cisco’s architecture for an experience that’s meant to be “seamless” and through a single pane of glass…
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