The IT management and automation offerings of CA Technologies has been selected by Logicalis UK, a part of Logicalis, an international IT and Communications (ICT) offerings integrator, to manage the delivery and performance of its Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service.
CA Technologies service automation, service assurance, and energy and sustainability management offerings will be instrumental in Logicalis UK’s ability to offer customers agile, low-risk, efficient and cost-effective cloud services.
CA Technologies said that Logicalis UK recently invested £7.3m in a new data centre, which is designed to offer high-density computing, with capacity for 2,500 virtual machines in a single rack.
In addition, the cooperative enterprise cloud service, which offers private clouds hosted at the data centre, dedicated on-site private clouds, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and Application-as-a-Service, is built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), NetApp storage, and CA Technologies IT management tools, said the company.
Logicalis UK marketing director Chris Gabriel said the company’s aim is to offer customers cloud services that are aligned to their business needs, easy to understand, and involve minimal risk.
"This means using leading technologies and specifying service level agreements that can actually be met. CA Technologies expertise in developing, managing, and securing cloud environments helps enable our customers to take maximum advantage of this economical approach to IT service delivery while supporting our business growth," Gabriel said.