Specialist networking services ICT company Netology has partnered with cloud distributor Cloud On Demand to assist it with the provision of cloud services to its customers and in doing so has helped customers reap the benefits of cloud infrastructure.
Following the identification of a need to assist customers with placing components of their IT environments into the cloud, via a hybrid cloud model, the Netology team selected Cloud On Demand as a distribution partner to help provide the infrastructure needed to execute.
“We are a managed services company that helps clients through the management of their networks, so in essence their LAN and WANs. We also assist with branch to head office IT security and firewalling, application hosting, and work with customers to help build VPNs between branches and head offices in such a way that we help them negate the need for costly MPLS infrastructures,” states Darryl Maroun, managing director at Netology.
The company, now a premier partner of Cloud On Demand, also currently hosts its own shared web and email hosting environment in its virtual data centre. This is currently comprised of 600 sites and acts as the company’s primary DNS.
A key service that Netology is now making use of from Cloud On Demand is real estate in its virtual data centre from which it is able to supply public cloud, and in some cases hybrid and even ring fenced private cloud solutions, through the hosting of individual virtual data centre’s for clients.
“The biggest advantage and benefits our clients are seeing from tapping into the cloud from a networking environment, particularly in branch environments, is a massive reduction in dependency on their head office connectivity. Which is always a major issue as oftentimes head office is the main hub for connectivity, but they are just a satellite environment compared to the size of the plants that require the real uptime and connectivity,” says Maroun.
“Working together with Netology we have opened their customers’ eyes to the benefits of cloud. The partnership has seen a dramatic reduction in Netology’s customers’ infrastructure footprints, the demand for Capex to support the acquisition of new equipment is also gone and all they really need onsite now is a small on premise server to link into,” says Jonathan Kropf, CEO at Cloud On Demand.
