Brennan IT rounds out its cloud portfolio

Peter Dinham
Friday, 03 February 2012 00:26

Leading Australian managed services and cloud computing provider, Brennan IT, is bringing Microsoft Hyper-V to its cloud platform following the recent $1.5 million upgrade of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform as it gears up to meet what it says is rising demand for its cloud services.

With cloud revenues expected to account for 30 per cent of Brennan IT's business within the next 12 months, managing director Dave Stevens says the move is a 'reflection of the market's demand for proven cloud solutions and supports the company's position as a one-stop destination for mid-market businesses looking for a cloud services partner.'

'It's all about offering our customers choice. We recognise that many businesses have Microsoft platforms in place and may not be comfortable moving to a VMware vSphere cloud environment. The move allows us to cater to the growing number of businesses that are choosing Microsoft for cloud services. It also provides us with additional capacity to meet the growing demand we are seeing in this space.'

According to Stevens, Brennan sees Microsoft Hyper-V support as key to expanding the company's cloud operations and he predicts that at least 15 per cent of its cloud customers will be using Microsoft Hyper V in 2012.

Stevens says that to support its decision to bring Hyper-V to its existing cloud offerings, the company will further extend its investment in new hardware, deploying an enhanced platform built on CISCO UCS B series servers, with Nexus 5Ks switchers and ASR 9Ks routers for networking and EMC storage. The upgrade, Stevens says, will increase the capacity, performance and functionality of Brennan IT's infrastructure to better support the delivery of Hyper-V, as well as allow the company to deploy more efficient cloud solutions and simplified management tools.

'Our investment in the cloud doubles every nine months. While others talk, we've been delivering, consistently working to develop new features and products for our IaaS customers, many of whom were early cloud adopters.'