Logicalis UK To Become Data Centre And Cloud Provider To Janet Community

SLOUGH, England, February 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Logicalis UK Selected under Janet Data Centre and Cloud Services Framework

Logicalis UK today announced that it has been selected as one of a small number of data centre hosting and cloud services providers to the UK education community under a new Janet framework.  Eight providers of data centre and cloud services have been selected, enabling higher, further and other educational institutions to procure data centre hosting, hosted and private cloud services.

The framework was launched on the 7 ^th of February 2012.

Tom Kelly, Managing Director of Logicalis UK, commented, "We have been a partner of the education community in the UK for many years, helping higher and further education institutions adopt new and more efficient ICT delivery and consumption models, especially in the data centre.  Janet has long provided the UK education community with world class communications services, and with this new and innovative framework for data centre and cloud services Janet is extending its track record of service excellence into one of the biggest investment areas for the sector.  

"How universities and further education colleges provide computing and storage services in the future are going to be heavily dependent on the emergence of quality cloud services. As we have seen at Loughborough University, where £2.5million was saved through the adoption of Logicalis' Janet enabled hybrid cloud solutions and services, the power of cloud to unlock money so it can be directed at where an institution needs it most, improving student experience and educational outcomes, is now not in doubt."

Dan Perry, Head of Strategic Business at Janet, said, "We've managed to establish a framework, which is agile enough for everyone on the Janet network, in a remarkably short space of time.  Institutions are queuing up to use it, with our support, to help them move to cloud computing and data centres."

Logicalis will offer data centre hosting and cloud services from its UK based data centres, as well as private and hybrid on-site solutions, and a range of IaaS cloud services.