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Reliance Communications launches 'Cloud Computing' solutions on Microsoft Platform | In a move that combines the power of virtualization technology and cloud computing, Reliance Data Center, a part of Reliance Communications, today announced the launch of "Reliance Cloud Computing Services" - hosted infrastructure service for its customers,
based on the Microsoft platform. With this, Reliance will provide enterprises
and SMBs in India, access to a variety of enterprise scale IT solutions, applications
and services on the pay as you go model. These include infrastructure services
such as server hosting, data storage and archival, as well as business applications
like e-mail, ERP, workflow automation, document management; IT monitoring and
reporting, disaster recovery, firewall services and automatic security updates.
Microsoft's virtualization and management technologies will help Reliance reduce
the input costs involved in providing these services. As a result, Reliance will
be able to pass the cost benefits to its customers. Furthermore, with "Reliance
Cloud Computing Services" available on the pay-as-you-go model, businesses (both
large and small) will be able to address their technology requirements without
bearing costs involved in procuring, deploying and maintaining additional IT resources.
"Leveraging Microsoft's cutting edge technologies, Reliance Data Center will deliver
access to enterprise-class scalable, secure and reliable hosted IT infrastructure
to help large, midsized and SMB companies leverage cloud computing technologies
to drive business benefits. This is part of our long term vision to continuously
provide the latest and best technology to our customers, so that they always enjoy
a business edge against their competitors", said George Varghese, President and
Head, Enterprise Business, Reliance Communications. Today, 35 million business
owners in India spend a mere 0.4 to 3 percent of their total revenues on IT. Despite
increasing capacity and technology requirements - high upfront costs involved
in procuring and deploying IT infrastructure, and overall need for cash flows
has been cited as a deterrent to technology penetration, especially in case of
SMBs in India. However, increasing awareness around the relevance and advantage
of hosted solutions is changing this scenario. "Hosted IT offerings are a cost
effective model for provisioning processes, applications and services while making
IT management easier and more responsive to business needs. We believe businesses
have matured in their IT strategies and are now ready to explore hosted infrastructure
as an option not only for short term scalability needs but also longer term requirements",
added Varghese. In fact, according to a recent Gartner report - technology adopters
are expected to purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure "as a service"
by 2011. Rajan Anandan - Managing Director, Microsoft India said, "We believe
that the world of technology will never be only-cloud or only in-premise. The
best customer value will be delivered as a combination, and Reliance Communications
represents this. By combining the best of software with the best of cloud-based
services, Microsoft can deliver more compelling solutions for businesses of all
sizes. Today, Microsoft is delighted to empower Reliance with the ability to offer
an innovative and affordable business solution for their customers." Using Microsoft's
Dynamic Data Centre toolkit (an end-to-end guidance for leveraging virtualization
infrastructure of Windows Server 2008 R2/ Hyper-V coupled with System Center to
create managed services and partner hosted cloud offerings), Reliance is taking
the lead in making cloud computing a reality for businesses in India. "Thanks
to Microsoft, we can cut down on server sprawl and related capital costs across
Reliance data centers - and are geared up to deliver what is arguably India's
largest cloud infrastructure today", added Varghese. "Microsoft's virtualization
and management technologies deliver one of the highest return on investment in
the market today. Reliance is betting on Microsoft to deliver the power of cloud
computing to customers in India, and this is a true testament to the strong value
that Microsoft can deliver", added Anandan. 'Reliance Cloud Computing Services',
targeted towards SMB as well as enterprise customers will essentially involve
creation of a central computing + data storage IT infrastructure at the data centre,
and then offering the same to multiple end customers as a standardized packaged
offerings, accessible through public Internet, on a shared / virtual, pay on usage
model. Various software applications (including mailing, sales force automation,
HR automation, logistics, supply chain, ERP, document management, work flow automation,
billing, CRM) and underlying IT infrastructure like server computing, data storage
and retrieval, disaster recovery, application development platforms and security
tools will be offered by us under this banner. The benefits to end customers will
include cost reduction, cash flow improvement, pay per use (instead of upfront
capex), better time to market, high quality managed services at fraction of cost,
24*7 accessibility from anywhere in the world, no need for high end IT skill sets,
unlimited scalability, focus on their core business and hence essentially peace
of mind. |
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