Verizon Business Helps Enterprises Harness Power Of 'Cloud'

Cloud computing is transforming how IT resources are delivered. For today’s enterprises, it is not a question of if they will adopt ‘cloud’- or Internet-based services, but how and when.

Verizon Business is helping enterprises down this critical path with its new Cloud Computing Program - a set of IT consulting and managed services that offer enterprises a holistic approach to transitioning to the cloud, while addressing specific security, privacy, performance and governance requirements. The Verizon Cloud Computing Program also helps enterprises manage, monitor and maintain their clouds, whether applications are delivered from an enterprise’s own data centre, or one operated by Verizon or a third party.

This lifecycle-centric program offers enterprises a vendor-neutral approach to understanding the cloud environment, using a five-tiered process: assess, design, migrate, manage and secure. By leveraging the company’s experts in data centre virtualisation, application management and security, Verizon Business works with enterprise customers to create a secure cloud computing environment, while giving them the level of support desired, no matter where they are in their cloud computing deployment.

Cloud computing, the use of Internet-based technology to supply IT resources, enables enterprises to employ computing resources in the quantities and duration dictated by business requirements, thereby paying for only the resources used and avoiding the need to build out for peak capacity requirements by buying new equipment and adding staff.

Of key concern is advising client-partners on which business applications should be moved to the cloud in order to better use data centre resources, enhance performance and control IT costs, as well as identifying the best cloud environment – public, private or a hybrid combination of the two.

“It is now clear that cloud computing is part of the future of IT,” said Joe Crawford, Executive Director-IT Solutions and Hosting Product Management, Verizon. “While many businesses recognise the many benefits associated with cloud computing, concerns still persist over security, performance and governance. With our IT capabilities and experience from building and deploying our flagship cloud offering, Computing-as-a-Service, Verizon Business is well-positioned to advise enterprises on their cloud computing strategy.”