NEW DELHI, INDIA: BT announced that it will launch a new virtual data centre (VDC) service soon.
BT VDC service will be rolled-out across datacentres in multiple countries in EMEA.

The BT VDC, showcased at the Handelsblatt Telecommunications Market Europe conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, marks the first of several networked IT product and service innovations and updates to be announced by BT Global Services this year.

The company claims that customers can change the infrastructure easily in real-time throughout the duration of the contract through the portal. BT customers will also be able to virtualise many of their networking and IT needs to the required service levels. By using BT's enterprise class infrastructure, BT VDC delivers to large organisations the benefits of enterprise class "cloud computing" to customers at a significant saving against a standard hosted infrastructure deployment.

Luis Alvarez, president, EMEA, BT Global Services, said: "BT VDC has all of the components including virtual computing, storage, security and networks orchestrated and automatically provided via our online portal. Our investment in this innovative service means that we differentiate ourselves from simple server virtualisation offering."

BT VDC is just one of a number of new product innovations that will be announced by BT Global Services this year, focused on helping business customers and government organisations achieve competitive edge this year.

BT's investment has been focused on supporting portfolio innovations in voice/unified communications, network services, security, mobility, data centres and contact centres infrastructure and will also be making a series of announcements in 2009:

BT Onevoice: Is a market leading global voice solution that delivers operational and cost benefits today, and creates a robust roadmap approach to global Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC). BT has developed a range of services, offering advances in features, access and the very latest voice technology.

BT Unite: New to the market this year, delivers on the promise of UCC through converged voice and data services. BT Unite features a range of packages that bring together the best and most-requested UCC elements from Cisco, Microsoft and IBM and delivers a fully integrated solution.

BT MobileXpress: Enables mobile and remote employees to access corporate networks and applications securely and reliably via fixed or wireless connections, making them accessible and productive wherever they are. Bt will be evolving MobileXpress' security and remote management capabilities. 

BT Unified Video: This utilises the very latest video conferencing technologies.

BT Carbon Impact Assessment: It measures a customer's carbon footprint and energy consumption, before outlining the sustainable practices and communication technologies that can help them lower emissions, reduce costs and increase efficiency. BT has tried and tested the Carbon Impact Assessment (CIA) and was able to help one customer save an estimated £30 million over five years.

BT Intelligent Networks: Is is a family of services which includes BT's recently launched best-in-class BT Intelligent Virtual Private Network (BTiVPN), BT Etherflow and Wide Area Network Optimisation technologies which help customers prioritise mission-critical data traffic, optimise business application performance and drive efficiencies.

BT Managed Security Services: It deliver flexible, cost-effective and comprehensive end-to-end security, that protects customers' infrastructure from ever-evolving threats and enables compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. BT is investing in a new global, harmonised MSS platform which further improves the service we deliver to our customers.

BT Next Generation Contact Centres (NGCC): It provides fully hosted contact centre capability for customers deploying contact centre services all around the world.  For 2009, NGCC includes enhanced geographic resilience, providing 99.99 per cent availability and per minute pricing.