From heraldonline.com
MIAMI — Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), a leader of full-service telecommunications solutions serving Latin America and the Caribbean, announced its continued long-standing partnership with Virtacore Systems to provide infrastructure and cloud-related services for CWC’s diverse business units.

Virtacore provides a wide range of cloud services to CWC under the partnership – including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), private cloud, governance, cloud consulting, transport, backup, and disaster recovery solutions. Virtacore also supplies specialized service management tools to assist CWC in centralizing its application infrastructure.

“Virtacore helps bring the latest cloud services to enterprises and service providers worldwide,” said Carlo Alloni, CTIO of Cable & Wireless Communications. “Our relationship with Virtacore represents an important milestone in the transformation of telecommunications companies to provide flexible, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure needed to deliver enterprise applications to our team members and subscribers.”

“As enterprise organizations evolve, analog business models are colliding with digital innovation and services,” commented George Naspo, Virtacore’s President & CEO. “Over the past several years, CWC has identified ways for their business units to transform, adapt, and innovate their operations, and delivery. The cloud project continues to be the catalyst for this transformation and we are extremely pleased with Virtacore’s important role in contributing to CWC’s IT innovation.”

Virtacore has established a rigorous governance process to review applications prior to migrating to the secure cloud infrastructure, allowing CWC to focus on delivering best-in-class application services rather than hardware and maintenance.

“Production sizing, architecture and design, software licensing, security requirements, service level agreements, release plans, resourcing, and delivery milestones are all coordinated with our dedicated IT services team,” said Douglas Pollei, Virtacore’s VP-Strategic Partnerships.

CWC is excited about its ongoing partnership with Virtacore to help further advance CWC’s cloud infrastructure as the cornerstone of the organization’s IT transformation.

About Cable & Wireless Communications

Cable & Wireless Communications Plc (CWC) is a full-service communications provider operating in 16 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. With four leading businesses: – Cable and Wireless Panama, LIME, (the Caribbean excluding The Bahamas), BTC (The Bahamas) and Cable and Wireless Seychelles; CWC offers mobile, broadband, TV, domestic and international fixed line services in most of our markets serving over 5.6m customers. CWC also provides premium data centre hosting, telecoms, domestic and international managed data network services and custom IT Service Solutions to businesses and governments through the new unit, Cable & Wireless Business Solutions. On November 6, Cable & Wireless announced the acquisition of Columbus International Inc. Whilst subject to regulatory approvals in certain markets, this transaction will bring huge benefits to the region – creating more jobs, providing customers with superior broadband access, more TV choice, more investments and transform customer experience – underpinned by service excellence and innovation. We are forming a new company, with a new leadership team, and a new culture, putting our customers at the heart of the business. Our mission is to grow customer relationships and lifetime value by becoming #1 for Customer Service. We are the market leader in most products offered and territories served.

For more information visit: www.cwc.com

About Virtacore Systems

Virtacore is a leading cloud services provider specializing in virtual infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions utilizing VMware and built on enterprise cloud platform technologies. With many years of experience in cloud and Internet services, Virtacore has a long and solid history of providing IaaS and disaster recovery (DR) solutions to meet the critical needs of clients. Based in Sterling, Virginia, Virtacore maintains a broad U.S. footprint and serves domestic and multinational clients. Virtacore is backed by Insight Venture partners, a global private equity and venture capital firm. To learn more, visit www.virtacore.com or follow us on Twitter @virtacore.
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