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read moreAmcom scores $9m cloud services contract from University of WA
Stuart Corner
Monday, 25 July 2011 09:50
Amcom Telecommunications (ASX: AMM) has been awarded a $9m three year contract to provide hosted cloud services to The University of Western Australia (UWA).
Dr Mary Davies, UWA's librarian and director (information management), said: "Amcom has been able to provide us with a cost effective, secure, reliable and dedicated product that gives us capacity and capability across all faculties. It is both simple for us to manage and user friendly for our staff'¦And most important our data is stored in Perth using dedicated infrastructure (single tenant) under a private hosted services agreement.
Amcom is hoping to leverage its existing base of corporate customers for its telecommunications services to build its cloud computing business. CEO Clive Stein said: 'Over the past 10 years, we have built a solid reputation in partnering with our customers. We have tremendous examples of how we have delivered exceptional outcomes for our customers across Australia'¦The cloud services market is rapidly expanding globally and provides customers with significant benefits of cost and scale. Amcom is ideally placed to leverage this emerging trend in the cloud with an established customer base of 900 blue chip corporate and government customers."
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