Published on the 21/01/2010 | Written by Newsdesk

ICT services provider Gen-i has launched what it is calling its cloud computing strategy, a portfolio of solutions for the Australasian market it says are designed to ensure clients get the best out of their existing assets and new cloud opportunities.

Gen-i says the strategy supports its vision of becoming Australasia’s leading provider and integrator of ICT value added services in infrastructure over the next five years. 

The company has also released details on its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) portfolio of solutions that provide users with leveraged virtual servers, storage, networking, and desktops. 

“Gen-i’s cloud computing strategy delivers and integrates on-premise and cloud services to provide end-to-end solutions that achieve business efficiency, flexibility, productivity, increased customer responsiveness and cost savings,” the company says.

“Gen-i provides clients with fully integrated solutions built from the best global public cloud, local private cloud and on-site hybrid solutions. The complexity of the integration and security across all delivery models is a large part of the value delivered by Gen-i’s managed cloud services.”

Chris Quin, Gen-i Australasia CEO, says Gen-i is investing in existing services as well as adding new capabilities to increase the functionality of Gen-i’s offerings.

“IDC predicts that cloud computing will become a US$960 million market across Australia and New Zealand by 2013. 

Unlike global cloud players, Gen-i is absolutely dependent on New Zealand and Australia being successful in this area, which is why we are 100 per cent committed to getting it right first time, on time,” Quin says.

The roll out of Gen-i’s new cloud services will be phased over the next twelve to eighteen months. Gen-i’s existing range of cloud-based services includes hosted security (Safecom) and productivity (Managed Mail) offerings.