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TH Real Estate built on cloud in nine months

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Sanghamitra Kar
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LONDON, UK: Cloud's global strength has been highlighted by TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate), a real estate investment management company, which went from conception to global operations in just nine months.

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James Whyte, acting head of ICT at TH Real Estate, said: "The rise of cloud means that geographical location is no longer an obstacle to global success. Everything the cloud brings to a new business contributes to its success - end users have total mobility, deployment is rapid, costs are scalable and data centres become more energy efficient. Often stressful and time-consuming day-to-day ICT operations are also eradicated, leaving employees to focus on their core competencies and growing the business."

He added that cloud had been absolutely critical in the growth of TH Real Estate, a joint venture company between TIAA-CREF - a financial services provider - and Henderson Global Investors.

TH Real Estate needed a full business and technology suite built from scratch, including high quality video conferencing and other collaboration tools across 19 countries worldwide.

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Whyte said: "Providing the infrastructure required a vendor that understood the timelines and was willing to partner in not only the delivery but also the vision. A cloud based Citrix solution was the only logical choice if these timescales and geographic challenge was to be met. The decision of vendor in the end became quite simple - a global provider with strength in Asia Pacific and the ability to bring together three streams of services across cloud, network infrastructure and communications."

Telstra Global was selected by TH Real Estate and adopted an ‘agile infrastructure' approach to allow the company to place orders for WAN links and servers based on what was known at the time, enabling the model to be built according to a design that was still forming.

"As a regulated financial organisation, maintaining the integrity of our information security is fundamental to every decision we make," added Whyte.

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