BANGALORE, INDIA: Reliance Data Center, a part of Reliance Communications has launched "Reliance Cloud Computing Services" - hosted infrastructure service for its customers, based on Microsoft platform.

With this, Reliance will provide enterprises and SMBs in India, access to a variety of enterprise scale IT solutions, applications and services on the pay-as-you-go model. These include infrastructure services such as server hosting, data storage and archival, as well as business applications like e-mail, ERP, work flow automation, document management; IT monitoring and reporting, disaster recovery, firewall services and automatic security updates.

Furthermore, with "Reliance Cloud Computing Services" available on the pay-as-you-go model, businesses (both large and small) will be able to address their technology requirements without bearing costs involved in procuring, deploying and maintaining additional IT resources."Leveraging Microsoft's cutting edge technologies, Reliance Data Center will deliver access to enterprise-class scalable, secure and reliable hosted IT infrastructure to help large, mid-sized and SMB companies leverage cloud computing technologies to drive business benefits.

George Varghese, president and head, Enterprise Business, Reliance Communications, said: "This is part of our long term vision to continuously provide the latest and best technology to our customers, so that they always enjoy a business edge against their competitors."