Global Cloud Services

The complexities and challenges facing businesses continue to mount. Globalisation. Cost control. Pressure to accelerate time-to-market with new products and services.

Like many businesses, you’re considering cloud computing as a means to address these challenges. However, a move to the cloud presents a number of challenges: security, compliance, integration, global coverage and internal readiness, to name a few. Short-term, piecemeal investments in cloud infrastructure can be complex and costly. And they’ll slow the momentum of your journey to the cloud.

Dimension Data’s comprehensive portfolio of Cloud Services enables you to accelerate your adoption of cloud computing. We do so by simplifying planning, design, deployment and management of private, public and hybrid clouds.

Whether you’re at the beginning of your usage of cloud and virtualisation, or well on your way to leveraging the benefits of a self-service, hybrid cloud model, we can assist. And because all of Dimension Data’s Cloud Services are delivered on the same platform, it’s easier and more cost-effective to migrate from one cloud model to another as the demands of your business change.

Our portfolio of solutions and services includes:

• Cloud Enablement

• Cloud and System Integration

• Private Cloud

• Public Cloud

• Managed Hosting

• Managed Services.

Read more about our portfolio of Cloud Services.

Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform™

If you’re considering a move to the cloud, you need to ensure the services you procure are backed by a robust architecture. Dimension Data’s Cloud Services are delivered on a fully managed cloud delivery platform, our Managed Cloud Platform™ (MCP).

Hosted within a Dimension Data or client data centre, the MCP comprises:

Accessing the MCP is simple, via a web-based user interface or REST-based application interface (API). Integrating the platform with third-party cloud or enterprise system management software is straightforward. For learn more about how to use the API to programmatically launch and control Cloud Servers, visit our Support Site.

Dimension Data’s MCP provides a single platform for all our Cloud Services, you can easily move between public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud models, as your business needs change. This minimises the time and expense of re-architecting and re-integrating the underlying infrastructure, with every new project.

Learn more in our Managed Cloud Platform brochure.

Our Perspective on Cloud Services

Learn more about how our organisations are leveraging the cloud to transform their business in our Opinion Pieces

Cloud Breathes New Life into Testing and Development

Today, organisations need more agile IT environments to match the highly dynamic and resource-intensive needs of the application development function. A new generation of cloud services is rising to the occasion. Cloud is clearing the way for businesses to make new products and services market-ready more quickly, and deliver on the end goal of revenue acceleration. Read more

IT-as-a-Service … Getting There FasterAccelerate Your Move to IT as a Service

For many organisations, the road to the nirvana of delivering IT as a service is often littered with piecemeal investments, false starts and costly missteps. It needn’t be that way for your business. Find out how to put your cloud computing journey on the fast track. Read more.

Cloud Client Case Studies

Read how Dimension Data has assisted organisations across all industry verticals to accelerate business performance via a range of cloud solutions:

Accept Software saves 40% and delivers enterprise-class, high-availability applications

Aerohive Networks migrates client-facing network management system (NMS) to the cloud

ClearBenefits improves reliability and saves 90% with cloud-based disaster recovery

Compuware Gomez leverages the cloud for load testing

Thermo Fisher launches SaaS application in the cloud to reach new client base

Glassbeam moves applications to need for on-demand processing and saves 50%

Springbox leverages the cloud for testing and development

Learn more about our public cloud and private cloud services.