Gen-i launches cloud strategy and services for Australasia

Gen-i has launched its cloud computing strategy with a portfolio of solutions for the Australasian market. The strategy supports Gen-i’s vision of becoming Australasia’s leading provider and integrator of ICT value added services in infrastructure over the next five years.

Gen-i also released details on its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio of solutions that provide users with leveraged virtual servers, storage, networking, and desktops.

Gen-i’s cloud computing strategy delivers and integrates on premise and cloud services to provide end-to-end solutions that achieve business efficiency, flexibility, productivity, increased customer responsiveness and cost savings. Gen-i’s expertise lies in taking the complexity of the various ICT services and delivery models and tailoring a client-facing solution that is straightforward and easy to use.

Gen-i provides clients with fully integrated solutions built from the best global public cloud, local private cloud and on-site hybrid solutions. The complexity of the integration and security across all delivery models is a large part of the value delivered by Gen-i’s managed cloud services.

Cloud services delivered by Gen-i are managed in Australasia using the latest technologies. Supported by Gen-i’s world class infrastructure, these services are integrated with clients’ existing ICT infrastructures to provide the right mix of technology solutions for clients, backed up by dedicated local service.

Gen-i acts as integrator by leveraging its professional services business to advise clients on the solutions which best meet their business needs. Gen-i provides the full range of consultancy, design, development, implementation and management of cloud services. Gen-i is also a service provider and leverages its managed data proposition to deliver cloud services, including servers, storage, desktop email and security.

Chris Quin, Gen-i Australasia CEO, says Gen-i is investing in existing services as well as adding new capabilities to increase the functionality of Gen-i’s offerings, He explains it’s how this technology is enabled, managed and utilised that adds real business value to clients, which is where Gen-i comes in.

The roll out of Gen-i’s new cloud services will be phased over the next twelve to eighteen months. Gen-i’s existing range of cloud-based services includes hosted security (Safecom) and productivity (Managed Mail) offerings.