Telecom Lead Asia: Softbank Telecom and VCE announced
their alliance to offer cloud computing solutions to enterprises in Japan.
Softbank Telecom will work with VCE as a service provider
and reseller of VCE Vblock Systems.
Softbank Telecom is standardizing its Cloud services on
Vblock Systems, which bring together technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC
into an intelligent converged infrastructure system.
In addition to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS),
Softbank Telecom and its network of partners will market and deploy Vblock
Systems as part of a portfolio of on-site private and hybrid cloud offerings
for enterprise customers.
Ken Miyauchi, representative director & COO, Softbank
Telecom, said the relationship with VCE extends our VMware expertise and will
help more companies lower costs and improve efficiencies through virtualization
and cloud computing.
Softbank Telecom has deployed a Vblock System in its data
centers at home and abroad. VCE will provide expertise to Softbank
Telecom as solutions are configured and deployed for Japanese customers in and
outside of Japan.
Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE, said Softbank Telecom and VCE
will help companies throughout Japan take advantage of the cost and business
agility benefits of highly virtualized data centers and accelerate their
adoption of cloud computing through intelligent converged infrastructure using
best-in-class technologies.”
