Alphawest joins VMware cloud beta program

Peter Dinham
Monday, 06 July 2009 16:28

IT Industry - Market

According to Parcell, organisations are looking to cloud computing to realise cost savings and improve efficiency by accessing infrastructure resource pools how and when they choose.
 
“Additionally they want the flexibility, security, service levels and control needed for production applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). By utilising cloud computing on the Optus Evolve network, our customers will be able to invest their hard earned capital where they see the greatest value – close to customers – rather than spending on back-end infrastructure.”

Parcell also reckons that participating in the VMware vCloud Beta puts Alphawest in a “leading position in the Australian cloud services market.” and, he says the company is the first Cisco partner in the Asia Pacific to have procured the Cisco Unified Computing System.

VMware Australia and New Zealand, managing director, Paul Harapin, said VMware’s cloud model being delivered by Alphawest enables organisations of any size to access a “flexible, dynamic and scalable cloud computing infrastructure, providing a practical fulfillment of VMware’s vision of IT as a service.”