NetStar Australia enters data centre market

By Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 08:52

Strategy

NetStar Australia has entered the market for data centre hardware software, consultancy and services with the formation of a specialist consulting division and new partner certifications from Cisco, VMware and EMC.

NetStar says it will offer consulting, professional services, support and managed services for virtualisation and data centre environments, with a focus on selective outsourcing for virtual infrastructures; and has already secured three new customers in the healthcare, property and transport industries who will use tits combined Cisco, VMware and EMC offering.

According to CEO, Chris Meager, "NetStar is the only systems integrator and managed service provider in Australia to provide managed virtualisation infrastructure based only on the VMware/Cisco/EMC alliance. In the long term, these capabilities will enable us to deliver on the vision of a private cloud, allowing businesses to be more agile. In the short term, our solutions and services will help customers reduce the complexity and costs of managing their data centres."

The company has received Cisco's Advanced Data Centre Networking Infrastructure (DCNI) and Advanced Data Centre Networked Storage (DCNS) certifications enabling it to offer Cisco's 'Unified Fabric' and network-embedded virtualised application networking services

It has also been appointed a VMware Enterprise Partner and an EMC Velocity Advantage Partner. The VMware partnership allows NetStar to offer VMware solutions including licenses, assessment services and outsourced management of VMware infrastructure including Managed Virtual Infrastructure. The EMC relationship enables it to offer storage and back-up consulting, implementation and fully managed storage solutions.

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