CITIC Telecom CPC partners with EMC and Riverbed Technology to Enhance SmartCLOUD Capabilities

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CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (CITIC Telecom CPC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), today announces a partnership with EMC and Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) to further enhance its SmartCLOUD cloud computing offerings. The new solutions give Asia Pacific enterprises a more secure cloud storage environment and increased application performance and reliability, while providing them with a trusted, internationally-complied and secured springboard to grow business in the region.

New SmartCLOUD offerings with industry-leading storage and traffic management capabilities

The enhanced offering includes the new traffic and application balancing solution SmartCLOUD TAB (Traffic and Application Balancer), as well as enhancements and expansion of the storage capabilities in the SmartCLOUD portfolio…

"The partnership with EMC and Riverbed(R) is of strategic significance to CITIC Telecom CPC. It enables us to tap the markets where public and private enterprises have to comply with the highest international security requirements while aspired to focus on their business competencies," said Stephen Ho, Chief Executive Officer, CITIC Telecom CPC.

New SmartCLOUD offerings empowered by EMC’s VNX(R) family

CITIC Telecom CPC’s partnership with EMC sees security enhancements to SmartCLOUD’s storage capabilities empowered by the VNX family. The EMC VNX family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities for file, block and object storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution. It is a next-generation storage platform that combines powerful and flexible hardware with advanced efficiency, management, and protection software to meet the demanding needs of today’s enterprises.

Utilizing EMC(R) VNX(R) patented, industry-leading data encryption technology and remote protection against outages and disasters, SmartCLOUD cloud computing solutions is a best in class, high performance and high availability option for customers to securely scale into the cloud while boosting business efficiency, competitiveness and agility.

"With our broad portfolio of industry-leading technologies ranging from virtualization, information protection, information security and information management, we’re committed to working with leading service providers around the world to provide more options that enable enterprises to enjoy the business agility and efficiency by cloud computing, without compromising control. All these allow our partners and service providers to build comprehensive IT-as-a-service offerings for their customers," said Gabriel Leung, General Manager, EMC Hong Kong and Macau. "We’re very pleased to find that our edges and innovations fit in CITIC Telecom CPC’s SmartCLOUD customers’ needs perfectly."

CITIC Telecom CPC is also planning to continue and deepen its partnership with EMC, through EMC’s Velocity Service Provider Partner Program, by launching storage-as-a-service and other value-added solutions running on EMC’s Atmos and Iomega platforms, optimizing both the end-user experience as well as the storage system operation within organizations of all sizes.

New SmartCLOUD offerings with intelligent Riverbed Stingray(TM) application performance and traffic management

The new SmartCLOUD TAB is a combination of CITIC Telecom CPC’s reliable cloud infrastructure as well as Riverbed performance solutions that include its highly flexible virtual application delivery controllers (vADC).

Beyond an ordinary load balancer, the new SmartCLOUD TAB — using the Riverbed Stingray(TM) Traffic Manager software, a vADC solution — intelligently manages application execution across the highly robust SmartCLOUD infrastructure to deliver superior service scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, application performance, and customization.

Stingray Traffic Manager software is designed to make applications performing up to four times faster. It also features global and local load balancing for both private and public cloud environments, making it a strategic fit for enterprises running mission-critical applications across different locations in a complex cloud environment.

Daniel Kwong, Vice President of Information Technology & Security Services, CITIC Telecom CPC, said, "Our partnership with Riverbed has come a long way since the launch of our TrueCONNECT(TM) Accelerator for WAN optimization, and now includes our SmartCLOUD TAB (Traffic and Application Balancer) for Cloud traffic and application balancing. The Riverbed Stingray(TM) Traffic Manager software focuses on performance and is specifically designed to improve application performance for both private and public cloud environments, and is a strategic fit for our hybrid-model SmartCLOUD."

"With six SmartCLOUD services centers across Asia Pacific, 24×7 support from our cloud professionals, SmartCLOUD TAB, and enhanced disaster recovery capabilities through SmartCLOUD Compute BRR (Backup, Replication & Recovery), customers can enjoy efficient and cost-effective cloud bursting and balancing, as well as on-site and off-site backup or replication for significant operational improvements," added Kwong.

Asia Pacific enterprises benefit from more secure andbetter performance cloud services

Both the Riverbed Stingray(TM) Traffic Manager software and EMC VNX storage technologies, which used to be available with highly complex and advanced infrastructure, are now available via CITIC Telecom CPC’s cloud-based subscription to all enterprises demanding the ultimate in application performance and reliability.

"Strengthened by EMC and Riverbed Technology’s security and traffic management expertise, our SmartCLOUD cloud computing solutions are now better positioned to provide fast market response time and services scalability to enterprises," added Ho.

Since the launch of SmartCLOUD cloud computing solutions in July 2011, CITIC Telecom CPC has been optimizing and expanding the solutions, which include SmartCLOUD Compute, SmartCLOUD Compute PA (Performance Agent), SmartCLOUD BRR (Backup, Replication and Recovery), SmartCLOUD M@il, SmartCLOUD VC (Video Conferencing), and the new SmartCLOUD TAB.

CITIC Telecom CPC looks forward to driving customers’ business in Asia Pacific with total network, security and cloud solutions

To provide a full spectrum of cloud services and to drive enterprises in Asia Pacific, CITIC Telecom CPC will be extending its reach to storage-as-a-service and software-as-a-service by forming more strategic partners’ alliances, while sustaining its effort in the infrastructure-as-a-service area riding on its extensive points of presence in the Asia Pacific.

CITIC Telecom CPC has deployed more than 50 points of presence in the Greater China and Asia Pacific Region, including Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and USA. The company also has plans to extend its presence to Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, London and New York. The company operates six cloud services centers in the region, with the first ASEAN SmartCLOUD services center launched in Singapore in July 2012. This global coverage provides CITIC Telecom CPC’s customers who are having regional presence or planning to expand their businesses globally with reliable and high-performance services.

As the trend on cloud adoption keeps growing, the market is highly concerned with security and privacy in the cloud. CITIC Telecom CPC well understands this trend, and will continue its effort on providing sophisticated managed security services backed by its TrustCSI(TM) Information Security Services suite to protect its customers’ privacy and data security in the cloud.