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Wipro for global utility computing platform

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited on Wednesday said it is expanding its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) capabilities to create a global utility computing platform, designed to meet the specific requirements of enterprise-class clients.

The IaaS portfolio is being marketed as Wipro iStructure services, and will be the foundation for offering a broad set of infrastructure, application and business process outsourcing solutions in an ‘as-a-service’ model, said a press release.

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“Last year we began offering multi-tenant, virtual server hosting to our existing clients as part of large, integrated infrastructure management engagements. Clients have quickly adopted the service, and today, 15 per cent of the servers hosted in Wipro’s data centers are delivered in an as-a-service model,” stated Michael Wilczak, SVP — Strategy, Datacenter Services, Wipro Technologies.

“Now, we are expanding the service portfolio, deploying the platform throughout the US, Europe and India, and marketing the solutions as discrete service offerings under the Wipro iStructure service line,” he added.

Forrester Research in the January 2012 report, Cloud Strategies Of The Leading Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Providers, says that during the past two years, the initial exploratory interest by enterprise customers in cloud services has shifted toward more aggressive implementation plans.