LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cloudreach today has announced a new agreement with BT’s Global Services
unit to provide combined cloud managed services to multinational
customers. It brings together best-in-class hybrid, pure-cloud and
networking expertise from two leading organisations in their respective
markets.
Moving to the cloud is a critical step in businesses’ digital
transformation strategies. It creates an IT infrastructure that delivers
the speed, agility and pace of innovation required to be successful in
today’s fast-evolving markets.
Cloudreach strongly believes that all future applications will live in
cloud platforms and will typically recommend that customers move to the
cloud by default.
However, together with BT’s Global Services unit, which serves
multinational customers, it recognises that the journey is not
straightforward as most large organisations have a hybrid or multi-cloud
estate with different datacentre environments spread across several
geographies. Hybrid strategies are a valid current approach for many of
these organisations, such as financial institutions, that may wish to
retain their own datacentres for regulatory reasons.
Cloudreach and BT’s Global Services unit can help their customers
further their cloud-native strategies, while supporting a mix of
public/private cloud, network & security services globally. Together,
they offer tailored, data-driven insight to help customers best
architect and execute their cloud strategy; globally, consistently and
at scale. This will enable customers to focus on their core business
whilst being supported by two leading organisations, as recognised by
several industry analysts.
Amplifon, a global leader in hearing solutions and services, is working
together with BT’s Global Services unit and Cloudreach to transform the
way hearing healthcare is perceived and delivered worldwide. Its IT
infrastructure supports applications and services used by the company’s
employees in over 29 countries as they serve millions of people
worldwide.
Gabriele Chiesa, CIO, Amplifon Group, says: “Amplifon’s products and
service enrich and enable over three million people’s everyday lives. So
it’s vital that we continue to deliver great experiences throughout our
cloud transformation programme. Through our established relationship
with BT, now complemented with Cloudreach’s expertise, we will migrate
key applications to the cloud benefiting from assessment, cloud adoption
planning, cloud service provider selection and migration and hybrid
cloud management services.“
Maria Grazia Pecorari, MD Strategy & Digital Solutions, Global Services,
BT, says: “Global businesses are evolving the way they implement and use
cloud. They’re looking for solutions that deliver on the benefits of the
public cloud while accommodating the need to manage critical
applications and data within their own private infrastructure for
regulatory or legacy technology reasons. That’s why it’s important for
us to offer a choice of hybrid cloud solutions, tightly coupled with
network and security capabilities. Together BT and Cloudreach deliver
these cloud solutions for multinational businesses globally.”
“Businesses are adopting cloud to capture growth opportunities and drive
efficiency. Hybrid is sometimes a necessary transient state and we want
to provide an answer to those needs,” says Aaron Painter, CEO of
Cloudreach. “Cloudreach and BT’s Global Services unit together bring the
best of public and hybrid cloud experience to deliver on business
outcomes for our joint customers.”
About Cloudreach
We believe tomorrow’s leaders will be those who take advantage of cloud
technologies to beat the competition. Cloudreach’s mission is to enable
this outcome through intelligent and innovative cloud adoption by
providing capabilities to enable, integrate and operate cloud platforms.
Our primary partners are AWS, Microsoft, and Google, whose cloud
platforms underpin everything we do and have done since we started the
business in 2009. Our experience in enabling, integrating, and operating
IT (public cloud to some of you) is unparalleled. Cloudreach is part of
Blackstone’s portfolio of companies. Blackstone is one of the world’s
leading investment firms with assets under management of over $440
billion.
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Contacts
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