(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After an “unacceptable performance” which resulted in the company losing nearly $2 billion in cost overruns on large customer projects, UK telecommunications and hosting provider BT (www.bt.com) revealed that it will launch a new virtual data center service designed for large businesses and public sector organizations.
The announcement comes on the heels of the launch of “Online Starter Kit,” which offers small businesses a professional website and a profile in the BT business networking community.
The company will soon offer a virtualized infrastructure platform that will let customers use their IT and networking infrastructure as a service and lay down the foundation for cloud services in the future.
The new offering will be the first of many new networked IT product and service offerings and updates that BT plans to announce this year.
In an effort to provide enterprise-class service, BT will roll out the virtual data center service across data centers in EMEA.
Meanwhile customers will be able to buy virtualized components which they can access over a pre-provisioned infrastructure.
Additionally, the company will offer servers, storage, networks and security that can be accessed through an online portal, which lets customers change the infrastructure in real-time throughout the length of the contract.
According to Dustin Kehoe, principal analyst at Current Analysis, BT’s new virtual data center offering makes the company one of the first providers in Europe to offer infrastructure as a service and the only global provider that will be offering the service across a network of data centers both in the UK and Europe.
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