Verizon Offers Services For Data Centre Planning

CIOs building, consolidating or outsourcing their data centres can now utilise a new suite of Verizon Business Consulting Services. By thoroughly assessing an enterprise’s data center needs and long-term business objectives, Verizon claims that its business consultants can help IT departments avoid the potential pitfalls associated with requirements such as power for heating and cooling, adequate physical and logical security measures, business continuity planning, and the human and capital costs associated with ongoing management.

As part of its services, Verizon will offer customers; facility and infrastructure design; facility and infrastructure implementation; facility, infrastructure and application migration; and facility, infrastructure and application consolidation.

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Also addressing the issue of security breaches Verizon is also offering new IT security consulting services that proactively integrate physical security with information security and compliance programs. The company claims its Physical Security Services combine a physical security assessment and penetration test, security awareness training, a social engineering experiment, and an evaluation of relevant logical security technologies.

“Organizations know that a proactive approach to security is key to protecting critical assets, but too often they overlook physical security considerations, such requiring access cards to enter a facility, making this one of the weakest links in the security chain,” said Dr. Peter Tippett,Vice President- Technology and Innovation,Verizon Business. “Our research shows that simple security measures, done well, can make a big difference to an organization’s ability to prevent data breaches. These new services help companies address both their information and physical security requirements in a holistic manner, helping to more effectively protect the organization – and its own customers – from security breaches."

In strengthening its extensive APAC network infrastructure, Verizon has opened a second data center in Hong Kong to enhance its ability to deliver new cloud and data center services in the region to meet the growing demand of the company’s enterprise customers.