Switzerland’s telecoms provider Swisscom has launched a managed service for hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) based on an HP private cloud infrastructure.
Swisscom now offers UC&C as a managed service for its corporate customers along with mobile communication services to around 5.8 million customers and 1.6 million broadband connections.
HP CloudSystem Matrix provides a private cloud environment that allows Swisscom to deliver UC&C services in four weeks.
The private cloud application in Swisscom’s data centre was installed and implemented by HP Technology Services.
Based on an HP CloudSystem platform running VMware ESX, the private cloud application in Swisscom’s data centre includes HP ProLiant BL460 G7 server blades for maximum throughput to support Swisscom’s business-critical applications and a HP 3PAR V-Class Storage Systems for cloud computing, which deliver storage as a utility service.
It also includes a flexible 10 Gb HP 5820 networking switches, HP StoreOnce Backup Systems with data deduplication software to provide cost-effective disk backup application and HP Data Protector software, which reduces backup and recovery complexity by protecting Swisscom’s virtual and physical applications from a central console.
