Reliance Cloud Computing Services to target 35 million businesses
Reliance Cloud Computing Services to target 35 million businesses with Reliance Data Center, a part of Reliance Communications, announcement to launch “Reliance Cloud Computing Services” based on the Microsoft platform. “Reliance Cloud Computing Services” is obtainable on the pay-as-you-go model.
‘Reliance Cloud Computing Services’, targeted towards Small Medium Businesses as well as enterprise customers will basically involve formation of a central computing plus data storage IT infrastructure at the data centre, and then offering the same to multiple end customers as a consistent packaged offerings, approachable through public Internet, on a shared / virtual, pay on usage model.
Reliance will provide enterprises and Small Medium Businesses in India, admission to a variety of enterprise scale IT solutions, applications and services on the pay as you go model which comprise infrastructure services such as server hosting, data storage and archival. It also includes 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 assist Reliance cut down the input costs involved in providing these services.
Hence, Reliance will be able to pass the cost benefits to its customers.
Mr. George Varghese, President & Head, Enterprise Business, Reliance Communications said, “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.”
Reliance is taking the lead in making cloud computing a reality for businesses in India by 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).
The gains to end customers will comprise 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 X 7 availability from anywhere in the world, no need for high end IT skill sets, limitless scalability, focus on their core business and thus basically peace of mind.
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