Business Connexion (BCX) expects its entire business to revolve around the cloud in the next few years.
The company is starting to provide bundled solutions from its partners to the market, with the aim of making integration easier and faster.
CTO Andy Brauer says the company is launching the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), which is an international coalition between VMware, Cisco and EMC^2.
VCE was introduced in the US last November. Brauer explains the coalition bundles hardware and applications, which provides a simpler framework for companies to move into cloud computing.
The major international vendors are already key technology partners for BCX in this market, which is rapidly expanding in SA. VCE is aimed at providing new or existing customers in these areas with building blocks - Vblock Infrastructure Packages - for new solutions.
BCX is the only African company to provide cloud services on Vblock, which offers customers their own internal cloud and the ability to extend private clouds to the BCX cloud.
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He anticipates that cloud computing will make up between 60% and 70% of BCX's business within the next three years. Brauer adds, in the future, all of BCX's business is likely to be focused on the enterprise cloud.
VCE will aid this growth, as well as expand its service offerings and assist it to reach new clients, he says.
John Jenkins, BCX's service group chief executive, says cloud computing delivers real savings and the agility to scale up or down, as business needs dictate.
“With almost anything delivered as a service, the capital expenses, development time and staff overhead of deploying new solutions is greatly reduced,” he says.
Jenkins anticipates a smooth migration to the new platform, which adds the benefit of reduced operational costs and faster implementation.
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