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NTT Communications' Enterprise Cloud Goes Global
NEW YORK --(Business Wire)--
NTT Communications (News - Alert) Corporation (NTT Com), a wholly owned subsidiary of
NTT Group (NYSE:
NTT), today announced the global availability of the NTT
Communications Enterprise Cloud, its virtualized Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS) offering, with the availability of data centers in the
United States, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. NTT Com launched its
groundbreaking Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based Enterprise Cloud
via data centers in Japan and Hong Kong in June 2012. The addition of
data centers in Singapore, Virginia and California in the US, and
England makes the Enterprise Cloud available on a global basis. NTT Com
anticipates opening three more data centers in Australia, Malaysia and
Thailand in March 2013, to further enhance global coverage.
Since launching Enterprise Cloud last year, NTT Com has gained clients
and seen strong interest from global enterprises who view Enterprise
Cloud as a flexible extension of their own data centers, enabling them
to connect existing private networks to the cloud and gain additional
cost-optimized and secure compute capacity. As a global provider with
multiple data center locations, NTT Com is able to offer clients
cloud-based services where they need them most, while enhancing
self-management and maintaining single, minimal-resource contracts with
single-support contact.
"NTT Com understands the enterprise client, their struggles, goals and
needs," said Mr. Motoo Tanaka, Senior Vice President of Cloud Services
at NTT Com. "Being truly enterprise class is what makes NTT Com the
leading partner of choice for client cloud transformation through
comprehensive cloud lifecycle services, and is what has led us to
develop this real-world cloud, built on a foundation of advisory,
migration, operational and management services." To illustrate the
benefits, Mr. Tanaka spoke about four clients already using the
Enterprise Cloud platform:
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One manufacturer realized dramatic results after integrating systems
to the cloud that had become scattered as a result of rapid
globalization: From 1700 servers to 500 servers and 500 virtual
machines; from 200 locations with an on-premise system to 50; and from
20 network carriers to 1.
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A global retailer looking to support rapid business growth due to
mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and geographic expansion moved from
separate procurement of servers and data centers to a single
information and communications technology (ICT) platform using 50%
fewer network carriers, with integrated management and uniform
services for newly launched stores throughout the world.
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A large media company seeking to strengthen business continuity
planning (BCP) and business efficiency was able to reduce its
overconcentration of data centers in one metropolis and total cost of
ownership (TCO) for ICT systems by migrating from a system with 500
servers to an integrated platform using cloud hosting and 90 servers.
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Another retailer growing rapidly due to M&A needed to reduce IT costs
and sought to benefit from centralized operations; it did so by
exchanging its ICT assets (including 500 servers) for cloud hosting,
reducing its data centers from five to one and realizing system
optimization through an integrated customer portal.
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A second manufacturer aiming to outsource its ICT assets, achieve
greater ICT resource flexibility and reduce its CO2
footprint transitioned from an overall system of 1500 virtual and
physical servers scattered among multiple data centers to an entirely
cloud-based platform.
"NTT Communications' Enterprise Cloud is a full-layer, self-manageable
virtual private cloud that is now global, and growing to incorporate
virtualized networks in eight countries and nine locations by March
2013," said Mr. Tanaka.
Working with enterprises looking to move to the cloud and optimize ICT
systems, NTT Com provides advisory services to identify the appropriate
applications and any business processes affected; migration services in
which NTT Com leverages technologies to migrate existing applications
and their underlying data to the cloud; and operational and management
services where NTT Com provides ongoing IaaS support. Driving the
overall value proposition is the unification of virtual network and
virtual server technology.
NTT Com uses virtualization technologies for both compute and network
resources including Openflow standards for its path-breaking
virtualization of the network. Having launched Enterprise Cloud in 2012
as the world's first cloud service to incorporate Openflow, the open
source protocol that enables SDN, NTT Com has continued to leverage this
technology to reduce network complexity, which saves on costs and time
in ways that help clients. Providing the necessary connections within
and between NTT Com's data centers, SDN technology enables upward and
downward-scalable Bandwidth on Demand (BoD), a key to offering Recovery
as a Service (RaaS), and provides a portal for customers to view and use
globally distributed data centers as a single pool of resources.
The aggressive adoption of SDN combined with NTT Com's unmatched global
assets and experience in the world of enterprise colocation, managed
hosting, on and off-premise equipment, data centers, public and private
networks and cloud technology distinguish Enterprise Cloud from other
platforms with less depth or breadth. That combination of technology,
experience and assets drives the primary features of Enterprise Cloud:
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Global solutions: With service in eight countries (nine
locations) by March 2013, Enterprise Cloud offers seamless global
linkage, supported by global data backup, meeting the needs of
multinational businesses, especially those with strategic developments
in Asia Pacific.
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Cost optimization: Clients architect their cloud according to
need, enabling just the right resources to be utilized and pay-per-use
invoicing.
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Flexibility & Scalability: Clients have 100 percent
guaranteed compute resources and can begin with as little as 1 GHz
CPU, 50GB storage and 1GB memory, increasing incrementally to meet
their overall requirements. With SDN/Openflow, BoD allows for faster
backups.
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Simplicity: An SDN-driven portal gives clients a single
dashboard to obtain real-time resource use; to configure virtual
machines, firewalls and load balancers; and to make other
add/modify/delete (AMD (News - Alert)) changes without opening a support ticket.
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Free access to service: Clients who use NTT Com's Arcstar
Universal One, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based Virtual
Private Network (VPN), which reaches more than 140 secure data centers
worldwide, gain access to the Enterprise Cloud over this connection
without charge.
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High availability: NTT Communications' Enterprise Cloud
features Service Level Agreements (SLAs) of 99.99 percent availability
and advanced security through a variety of options.
For details about services, please visit www.ntt.com/enterprise_cloud.
NTT Com, under its Global Cloud Vision announced in October 2011, is
leveraging its strengths as a telecom operator to provide total ICT
outsourcing services, from networks and data centers to applications,
all on a seamless, end-to-end, one-stop basis, to meet customer needs
for cloud-based ICT systems.
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