Dimension Data launches cloud services

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Cloud ComputingICT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data has launched a global cloud partnership initiative which it says is aimed at assisting its partner companies bring competitive cloud services to market more rapidly in response to a growing worldwide cloud demand.

Victorian state government shared IT services agency CenITex has chosen NetApp and Dimension Data to provide storage, backup and recover services.

As clouds continue to grow, so does the need for cloud ready backup solutions. In a reflection of the potential importance of this rapidly evolving offshoot of the cloud computing revolution, data protection vendors Asigra and RestorePoint have announced a partnership to deliver disaster recovery solutions for real estate businesses.

Dimension Data is to expand its data centre, cloud computing and infrastructure-as-service capabilities by taking a majority stake in IT and telecommunications services provider, Netforce, and merging Netforce's operations with those of its own cloud computing provider, BlueFire.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketGlobal specialist IT solutions and services provider, Dimension Data, has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services (COPS) 2012.

Dimension Data has unveiled what it claims to be "the first truly global' managed services for visual communications."

As Big Data and social media platforms put pressure on IT departments to handle the growing storage demands of businesses, Data Storage Corporation and Maximus Data Company have signed a VAR distribution agreement to help resellers offer organizations more complete data storage solutions. Data Storage, a provider of data protection and business continuity solutions, will support Maximus’ dat

Private cloud services provider, OBT, has deployed a Melbourne node which it says will provide cloud services continuity, offering additional disaster recovery, high availability and failover services with the addition of the new point of presence in Melbourne.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: TechnologyICT services provider Dimension Data now provides its clients with an e-waste removal service as part of its technology lifecycle management assessments.