Electro Sales launches cloud services for SMEs

BANGALORE, INDIA: Electro Sales Corporation (ESC), a system integrator, on Monday announced the rollout of its cloud data center - Merino Cloud - for SMEs in New Delhi, in partnership with Merino Services Limited (MSL).

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Merino Cloud, based on high performance cloud optimized storage systems from EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, will offer Software-as-a-Service (Saas), Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to customers, said a press release.

Merino Cloud will enable customers leverage the full benefits of cloud computing by giving them access to managed hosting services, cloud hosting services and co-location services, the release added.

Through Merino Cloud, ESC aims to provide a public cloud data center for the SME segment, which can serve as proof-of-concept centre as well as a test and demonstration centre where all the components of the cloud infrastructure can be demonstrated as a single solution.

Through these services, customers will be able to bring in their applications and host them on the cloud and test their performance on live or test environments. Customers will also be able to check SSL VPN and IPSec VPN functionality and performance and test their applications on this data center, claimed the company.

The Merino Cloud will provide SMEs automated tools for monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, capacity planning and reporting to manage the complete storage environment, enabling them to manage backup even without any access to 24X7 operations and skilled workforce.

Other features of the new cloud services include services/ products such as dedicated hosted exchange server, dedicated hosted Windows small business server and hosted virtual desktop PCs