Verizon Terremark added two new cloud data center locations in Dallas and London to expand its enterprise cloud services.
Data center provider Verizon Terremark announced this week it has added two new cloud data center locations in Dallas and London to expand its enterprise cloud services.
These additional data centers will help to improve the company’s enterprise cloud service with increased availability, security and flexibility.
Verizon acquired Terremark for $1.4 billion in April 2011 and created the data center services division, Verizon Terremark.
At the time of the purchase, both Verizon and Terremark had significant data center footprints. Once the acquisition closed, Verizon appointed Terremark management to oversee most of its data centers.
Verizon Terremark will expand its enterprise cloud computing platforms in both the Dallas and London data centers with a growing number of enterprises and governments demanding immediate access and availability to cloud services.
The recent extension of federal-grade security controls that was previously only available through Verizon Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud Federal Edition is now open to all of the company’s commercial customers.
Enterprises can now access advanced security technologies, enabling them to offer enterprise-class authentication and access control through the use of customers’ certificates and tokens to manage cloud services.
“The ability to provide rapid access to cloud environments with high level of security shows our leadership and commitment to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, not only domestically but on a global scale,” said Chris Drumgoole, Verizon Terremark’s senior vice president of global operations. “Through the enterprise-scale cloud ecosystem we have built, Verizon Terremark is in the best position to serve enterprises and governments and enable them to improve the lives of consumers and citizens through the use of the best technology available.”
Additionally, Verizon Terremark will respond to customer demand for hybrid clouds by extending its Enterprise Cloud service to include instance-based compute and storage.
As a result, customers will now be able to pay for their cloud services on a per virtual machine basis instead of reserving resource capacity.
This makes it easier for private and public enterprises to migrate to and from cloud environments and traditional computing environments without modifying workloads and applications, said Verizon Terremark.
Talk back: Do you think it was a smart strategic move for Verizon Terremark to add new cloud locations? Are you currently offering hybrid cloud services to your customers? Let us know in a comment.
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Adding more datacenter locations would improve their portfolio, but it won’t be right to comment on how fruitful this decision would be for them. The word “Cloud” has become a big buzz in the industry and many big and small players are playing around with it. Some providers truly offer actual Cloud computing but many hosting company still offers traditional hosting services under the name of cloud computing. I personally feel that every website is not eligible for cloud platform as it can not justify the cost of cloud infrastructure. The end user is not capable enough to analyze their hosting requirement and ends up spending big amount on cloud. Cloud infrastructure is strictly for enterprise grade customers.