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BT: Flying in front of the clouds
BT: Flying in front of the clouds
Challenge
BT has developed a virtual data centre (VDC) proposition, embracing cloud computing characteristics such as shared and hosted resources
Solution
The robustness, security, and scalability of the VDC architecture mitigates risk, while a customer portal offers unsurpassed levels of self-service
Value
Following exhaustive acceptance testing and independent quality assurance validation by Accenture, the VDC proposition is now ready for market
Hardened, resilient... and user friendly
There’s consensus that massive physical data centres have had their day. For a start they present cost and complexity issues: not to mention the fact that monolithic data centres constrain organisational agility. Furthermore, they’re unfriendly to the planet, with recent reports estimating the annual power consumption of Western Europe’s data centres at a staggering 40 terawatt-hours.
Commodity cloud computing may hold out an answer for some; but there are doubts over the absolute applicability of such a model to the deep corporate environment.
In response to this conundrum, BT has developed its virtual data centre (VDC) proposition, which embraces cloud computing characteristics such as shared and hosted resources. However, VDC is differentiated through highly resilient network architectures and hardened carrier-class security, server, and storage platforms – together with a brand new BT-designed user-friendly front end. Advanced existing BT management, monitoring, and reporting tools support it.
