Orange Business Services (News - Alert) has further extended Flexible Computing, which delivers Infrastructure as a Service. Currently, Flexible Computing is run by 500 customers from its European platform. With the latest extension, cloud-ready data centers in North America and Asia will also offer Flexible Computing. Multinational corporations or MNCs have been increasingly requesting networked cloud infrastructure services from an individual communications and IT services provider, which will now be addressed by Flexible Computing.

Flexible Computing is incorporated by Orange Business Services with its international network, offering a protected uninterrupted service for migrating business applications to the cloud. Intricacies are eliminated while functioning with an individual provider. Performance and accessibility via rigorous business-focused SLAs are also ensured.

 “The international expansion of Flexible Computing, coupled with Orange’s seamless cloud-ready network, offers the reach, flexibility and unmatched coverage that our customers are looking for,” said Thierry Bonhomme (News - Alert), CEO, Orange Business Services. “The on-demand IT resources and infrastructure enables them to seize new markets and opportunities, as well as accelerate time-to-market for new products and services.”

A scalable and modular service is delivered by Flexible Computing, ensuring rapid and simplified provisioning of scalable assets, thereby addressing the variable requirement and dynamic business development. While a protected user-friendly self-service portal allows MNCs to select self-managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service, they also have the option to select completely managed service. Customer can also forecast and track both their IT assets and service usage via consumption-based billing. Organizations can now line up IT expenses with business activities in an improved manner as they are required to only pay for the assets and services utilized.

Tiens Group is one of the initial global customers of the Flexible Computing service. Tiens business units across the globe are provided virtual computing assets by Orange Business Services. Tiens can now swiftly scale up or scale down as per the needs using Flexible Computing.

Bai Ping, president, Tiens Group said, “Orange Business Services created a global IT infrastructure in the cloud to match our international business on the ground. We have become a more agile organization as we continue to grow globally, and that is all due to the depth and scope of the Flexible Computing service provided.”