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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In the first of a series of cloud computing announcements it plans to make over the coming months, Computer Sciences Corp. (www.csc.com) launched a few key services this week, designed to help businesses and public sector organizations build and manage their cloud computing environments.
The new services are part of CSC's cloud computing strategy, which aims to deliver cloud services through private clouds, and combine them with its new public cloud models.
The company's new cloud orchestration services will include cloud services integration, service level management, remote monitoring, reporting, auditing, and security for public and private clouds. It will also offer hybrid solutions comprised of both public and private clouds.
Detailed information on the company’s new cloud offerings is available on the company’s website and CSC is preparing a new cloud computing community project at www.trustedcloudservices.com.
In developing the new services, CSC vice president of coud computing and software services Brian Boruff and his team researched the cloud field as well as spoke to its customers to gain valuable feedback.
"We talked to many analysts, we talked to a lot of our clients and our customers, and they told us that cloud computing is great but they want a place where they can do it in a trusted way where they get security and data management and monitoring and visibility in the cloud," says Boruff. "We have decades of doing private cloud computing. They like the procurement model of cloud computing but they were willing to pay a little bit more to put it in a trusted cloud, and that's what we're building."
With the new cloud orchestration services, CSC will completely manage ecosystems of cloud service providers, including platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service providers, for clients.
As a result, CSCs clients will be able to more effectively manage data, lower operational costs, and collaborate easily and effectively across public and private networks.
CSC also plans to offer a trusted cloud service, which offers a portfolio of desktop, computing, storage and network infrastructure services.
It is provided on an on-demand basis with full security, service-level guarantees and industry-compliant services, a flexible option for the company's government and public sector clients, who prefer to use services that operate in a trusted private cloud.
"We believe customer choice is a good thing," says Boruff. "A lot of our clients, particularly in the aerospace defense and public sector markets, don't want to take the risks of losing highly confidential government secret data in public clouds, so they want to do business with us on mostly a managed services level. The trusted cloud model for storage and compute will be more expensive, but you'll get more value from them."
In addition to the new Orchestration and Trusted Cloud services, CSC will also offer a consulting practice around cloud computing, designed to help enterprise IT clients and independent software vendors identify where they can improve their businesses through private, public and hybrid cloud capabilities.
CSC says it will continue to announce new cloud computing projects in the coming weeks, along with specific launch dates.
This fall, CSC will offer its cloud services on a greater scale through its alliance partners, who will be authorized to offer core orchestration and trusted cloud services. In the meantime, the company will continue to develop its infrastructure around cloud computing.
The new offering will give CSC an opportunity to expand its customer base in the lucrative cloud computing market.
"We're really trying to provide a differentiated place people can go," says Boruff. "We think what Amazon and Rackspace have done is great. It's driven a lot of innovation and there's a lot of small to medium businesses and web companies that will continue to use them on a massive scale. We're just trying to position ourselves in a market where if you're an enterprise and you really want to have more control of your data."
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