Barneveld, 24 april 2012 –
OpSource, de divisie van ICT-dienstverlener Dimension Data voor enterprise clouds en managed hosting, is door onderzoeksbureau Forrester opgenomen in het rapport ‘Market Overview: Public IaaS Clouds, Q4 2011 Part 2’. Dit rapport voor infrastructuur- en operationeel verantwoordelijken evalueert de meest vooraanstaande leveranciers op tien verschillende criteria, waaronder zelfservicecontrole en geografisch bereik.
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DIMENSION DATA’S OPSOURCE PROFILED IN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH FIRM’S PUBLIC IAAS CLOUDS MARKET OVERVIEW REPORT
Vendor landscape of public IaaS clouds highlights OpSource’s SLAs and disaster recovery solutions
Santa Clara, Calif. – 24 April 2012 – OpSource, Inc.,
Dimension Data’s wholly-owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, today announced it has been highlighted in a Forrester Research, Inc November 2011 report entitled “
Market Overview: Public IaaS Clouds, Q4 2011 Part 2.” The report, designed for infrastructure and operations professionals, evaluates the industry’s leading vendors on 10 different criteria ranging from self-service control to geographic reach.
Among the 17 leading cloud providers evaluated for the report, OpSource was identified by Forrester as an “Independent MSP Cloud.” Vendors in this category are managed services providers and hosting companies that offer a wider portfolio of solutions, including hybrid cloud models.
Forrester notes that OpSource is “the only vendor in this comparison that offers 100% uptime, 30-minute support response, and sub-1 ms latency SLAs.” The company was also highlighted as “one of the few providers to offer a Disaster Recovery solution atop its IaaS service.”
“We feel being recognised by Forrester for OpSource’s public IaaS cloud offering validates a key portion of our portfolio of enterprise-class cloud solutions,” said Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource. “As companies continue to examine the potential benefits of transitioning to cloud infrastructures, OpSource offers services that enhance their computing and storage agility, identify cost-savings and minimise risk.”
Forrester recognised OpSource’s abilities across a variety of criteria, including: self-service controls, support capabilities, network configuration options, network monitoring and analytics, SLAs, infrastructure configuration options, additional hosting options and breadth of storage options.
A long-standing leader in the IaaS market, OpSource is the only enterprise-class cloud IaaS offering that includes hardware-based security and scalability, complete customisation and integration, cloud management system, 24x7 live support and 100% availability guaranteed. ICT and systems integrator Dimension Data acquired OpSource in 2011, providing the company a strong global distribution arm. In February 2012,
Dimension Data launched a comprehensive portfolio of
public and private cloud solutions based on OpSource’s capabilities.
A reprint of the report can be accessed from Forrester
here. To find out more about the OpSource Cloud and IaaS solutions, please visit
www.opsource.net.
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Over OpSource
OpSource, opgericht in 2002, biedt cloud- en managed hosting-oplossingen waarmee bedrijven de basis leggen voor groei en het opschalen van activiteiten. Tegelijkertijd verlagen ze kosten en dringen risico’s terug in de ondersteuning van IT-infrastructuren. OpSource heeft zijn hoofdkantoor in Santa Clara (VS) en kantoren in Californië (VS), Virginia (VS), het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Ierland en India. Meer dan zeshonderd bedrijven, serviceproviders en Software-as-a-Service ISV’s vertrouwen op de expertise, ervaring en cloud-automatiseringstechnologie van OpSource voor hun optimaal beschikbare, bedrijfskritische hostingomgevingen. OpSource is een divisie van Dimension Data. Voor meer informatie:
www.opsource.net.
Over Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc., opgericht in 1983, is een leverancier van ICT-services en -oplossingen, die gebruikmaakt van zijn technologie-expertise, wereldwijde mogelijkheden voor service- en dienstverlening, en ondernemingskracht om de bedrijfsambities van zijn klanten waar te maken. Dimension Data is lid van de NTT Group. Meer informatie is beschikbaar op
www.dimensiondata.nl.