Vertex signs 5yr cloud contract with C&W

BANGALORE, INDIA: Vertex, a provider of customer management outsourcing business, signed a £40 million, five-year private cloud contract with Cable&Wireless Worldwide.

C&W Worldwide will provide an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution for Vertex to host its IT infrastructure, in the UK and India, into a private cloud within C&W Worldwide’s data centre environments.

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Jim Marsh, CEO, Cable&Wireless Worldwide, said: “C&W Worldwide’s private cloud is quite simply a better way to organise, manage, and implement IT services. This approach provides the key benefits of server virtualisation, utility pricing and a standardised progressive architecture."

C&W Worldwide will consolidate Vertex’s corporate and customer IT infrastructure, consisting of more than 1,600 operating systems and 600 physical servers, and will accommodate 200 terabytes (TBs) of storage space.

C&W Worldwide will also provide email platform and Internet access to Vertex users.

Andrew Chamberlain, CTO, Vertex, said: “This programme will dramatically transform our technological capability to continue delivering world-class service levels."