AMP goes cloud with CSC

Stephen Withers
Monday, 26 July 2010 11:10

IT Industry - Deals

Financial services company AMP has selected a locally-hosted service from CSC as its first production use of cloud services.

Following a multi-vendor pilot program, AMP will source cloud-based email and collaboration services from CSC.

"For the past 18 months AMP has been exploring strategies to increase the use of cloud based services," said Sharmini Sivathas, AMP's IT director service management.

"Starting with low-risk services, we embarked upon a multi-vendor pilot for e-mail and collaboration services as our first production services to move to the cloud," added Sivathas.

The outcome was the selection of CSC's Collaborative Online Services (COS), based on Exchange, Office Communication Server, and SharePoint. CSC's cloud services are based on the VCE platform from VMware, Cisco and EMC.

"Financial benefits were a key consideration for us, along with interoperability with our current environment, and confidence in our chosen service partner. The Microsoft product suite, the COS solution and delivery by our long-standing IT partner CSC, are key components of AMP's technology roadmap," said Sivathas.

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