EMC Lines Up Behind Dimension Data in the Cloud

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Mike Vizard.

Given the cost and complexity of standing up a private cloud these days, there’s been a marked shift toward more reliance on IT service providers that will absorb the capital costs associated with establishing a modern data center on behalf of multiple customers. As a result, IT vendors are either building up their own managed hosting capabilities or relying more on third-party partners.

In the case of EMC, the decision has been made to go the latter route via a Catalyst Alliance program under which EMC and Dimension Data, a unit of the NTT Group, will more closely align their private and public cloud computing efforts to create a comprehensive set of hybrid cloud computing services aimed primarily at midmarket IT customers…

Kevin Leahy, general manager for the data center business unit at Dimension Data, says that rather than focusing on managing IT infrastructure, CIOs are clearly now more interested in unlocking the business value of the applications riding on top of the infrastructure. Partnering with an IT services provider such as Dimension Data, says Leahy, makes it possible for organizations to take advantage of a modern IT environment running on premise, in a hosting facility or in a public cloud much faster…

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