[September 08, 2011] UNITED KINGDOM : Marathon IT Services inks partnership deal with Abiquo [TendersInfo (India)] Tweet (TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Marathon IT Services, UK based major supplier of enterprise IT services, inked a partnership deal with Abiquo, leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company. With this deal, Marathon IT Services is now providing Abiquo Enterprise Edition under its core IT infrastructure execution. It uses Abiquo's class-leading features, which will enable clients to administer technology agnostic computing, storage and networking, as well as help user with self-service access to necessary data centre resources. With this deal, the clients of Marathon IT Services can also choose various approaches, based on the specific requirements of their organization and applications, with an effective and alert way to administer the infrastructure as a self-service cloud. "Partnering with Abiquo provides our customers with a dynamic level of control and visibility to their entire IT infrastructure through cloud management. Since Abiquo combines virtual resource pools of any source - such as different hypervisors or private/public networks - into tenants and provides an intuitive, secure administration interface to the tenant manager, it easily enables us to address any security, compliance, SLA or performance concerns, said Peter Speck, Director of sales at Marathon IT Services. Speck added, "As virtualization matures, we are seeing our customers augmenting it with cloud services, such as IaaS, allowing for a true separation of IT hardware, software, data, and IT staff, enabling a business to access additional resources, fast. The ability to provide flexible control over how and where the total environment is used, has tangential business benefits to organizations becoming more agile, cost-efficient, and ultimately more competitive over time." Wendy Perilli, VP of global marketing at Abiquo, said, "Marathon IT Services has developed a class-leading, partnership approach for its UK customer base. As part of an IT transformation, enterprise cloud computing is being driven by the needs of end-users and mobile professionals, the Marathon ITS approach gives customers the flexibility to choose cloud resources that will work best for them. Abiquo lets organizations easily automate many of the manual tasks that are performed by administrators today, organizations can maintain their infrastructure with existing IT staff while continuing to grow their business. Because computing activities in the cloud can be quickly scaled up and down, Marathon ITS will be able to deliver a cloud computing infrastructure that adapts more flexibly to the changing requirements of their customers." (c) 2011 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]