Verizon Debuts New Cloud IaaS Platform, Object Storage Service
October 3, 2013
Grazed from StreetInsider.com. Author: Editorial Staff.
Verizon Communications, Inc., announced Verizon Cloud – its new cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform and cloud-based object storage service. With this service, Verizon is fundamentally changing how public clouds are built. Large enterprises, mid-size companies and small development shops will get the agility and economic benefit of a generic public cloud along with the reliability and scale of an enterprise-level service with unprecedented control of performance.
The public beta for Verizon Cloud will launch in the fourth quarter of this year. "Verizon created the enterprise cloud, now we’re recreating it," said John Stratton, president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "This is the revolution in cloud services that enterprises have been calling for…
We took feedback from our enterprise clients across the globe and built a new cloud platform from the bottom up to deliver the attributes they require." Verizon Cloud has two main components: Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon Cloud Storage. Verizon Cloud Compute is the IaaS platform. Verizon Cloud Storage is an object-based storage service…
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