Verizon Business Introduces New Cloud Based Offering

Verizon (News - Alert) Business, a unit of Verizon Communications and a global player in communications and IT solutions, has introduced a new cloud-based offering, Verizon Cloud Storage, and a complementary suite of data-retention IT consulting services.   

Officials with Verizon Business (News - Alert) said that Verizon Cloud Storage, which is designed to address the unique complexities of secure data storage, delivers a flexible solution for managing and retrieving data over the Internet.  

 

Company officials said that this pay-as-you-go service scales on demand to meet changing business requirements and can either augment traditional storage options, such as storage area networking and network-attached storage, or be used as a stand-alone solution.  

 

Verizon's new offerings, company officials claimed, can help IT departments make the most of their budgets by leveraging Verizon's storage infrastructure, as well as help organizations address data retention requirements mandated by increasing regulatory and compliance requirements.  

 

'The current methods of storing huge and growing volumes of enterprise data are simply not sustainable from either a cost or management perspective,' said Joseph S. Crawford, executive director - IT solutions product management, Verizon Business, in a statement. 

Crawford said that Verizon Cloud Storage is a game-changer for enterprises, offering IT departments a cost-effective and simpler way to store data.  

 

He said that the new cloud storage service is yet another example of the company's vision to deliver IT services via an 'as-a-service' model.

 

Verizon Cloud Storage, available in the U.S. and 16 countries around the globe beginning in July, offers an enterprise-class experience.  

 

Key features include strong physical and logical security such as secure multitenant file system and encrypted data transfers.  

 

Company officials said that the new service supports multiple methods for accessing stored data, including software, application programming interfaces and third-party applications, and offers enterprises the option to select where data is stored.

 

Verizon Business will initially leverage the Storage Delivery Network from Nirvanix (News - Alert), a premier enterprise cloud storage service provider.  

Later this year, Verizon is targeting deployment of additional Nirvanix managed storage nodes in its U.S. and European data centers, with additional nodes planned for deployment in the Asia-Pacific region in 2011.  

 

This will enable better integration with other Verizon cloud-based services and further enhance performance.