Alphawest joins VMware cloud beta program

Peter Dinham
Monday, 06 July 2009 16:28

IT Industry - Market

Optus subsidiary, Australia ICT services vendor Alphawest, has joined the VMware vCloud beta program to deliver cloud-based infrastructure solutions to Australian customers.

Announcing its participation in the VMware beta program, Alphawest said today it was one of around 15 companies internationally, and several service provider partners in Australia, who are taking part in the program.

Alphawest says the vCloud Beta pilot that it will run with a select group of customers for the delivery of cloud-based infrastructure, allows customers to provision and upload virtual machines into the Alphawest cloud on the MPLS-based Optus Evolve network.

Alphawest CEO, Rob Parcell, claims that the company will deliver a “more reliable, enterprise ready cloud computing experience for customers’ applications, without the lock-in associated with many ‘hosted’ infrastructure services available today.”

“This cloud model will offer Alphawest’s customers greater choice of the best suited environment to execute their workloads. This environment not only provides resources in an elastic way but also retains appropriate service levels.”

Parcell said the VMware vCloud was the next instalment for enterprise-ready private cloud, enabling the customers to interact on demand and control external clouds – “thereby delivering IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service.”

“The private cloud federates computing between on and off premise environments, giving IT teams the cost savings and efficiency cloud computing promises with greater flexibility, security and control. The vCloud helps organisations retain flexibility of choice – independent of hardware, operating systems and applications, so they can feel confident about deploying current and future applications in the internal or external cloud.”
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