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Zenith Infotech Europe signs first partners for “On-Premise Cloud” Appliance with integrated off-site managed services
August 2010 by Marc Jacob
Zenith Infotech Europe has shipped the first production models of its revolutionary Smart Style Office product, the first “On-Premise Cloud” solution to provide a completely scalable IT environment from within a single device. SmartStyle Computing® is a private cloud solution, which replaces conventional hardware and infrastructure with virtual desktops, servers and networking. It includes advanced features that provide more reliability and flexibility than traditional IT systems: auto provisioning of servers/desktops, a built in dispersed storage SAN, 15 minute snapshotting, golden image technology, automatic failover, and much more! Following its tradition of creating Service Provider Enabling solutions, Zenith Infotech also bundles its full 24/7 monitoring & NOC.
Smart Style Office, which was demonstrated at Channel Expo in May, is now available for partners to evaluate and a number of partners have already received demonstration units for the commencement of evaluation and pilot projects at customer sites within the UK.
With huge interest in the market for virtualisation and software-as-a-service, Smart Style Office provides a more cost effective alternative for smaller organisations or departments who would not financially benefit from a switch to either a traditional VMware or Citrix style virtualisation solution. These firms can’t afford the initial high capital investment and additional IT staffing costs to move to a virtualised environment, especially as traditional maintenance and support contracts are not reduced by just the virtualisation of servers. Instead Smart Style Office provides simple provisioning and management of virtual servers and desktops complete with pre-configured networking, distributed storage, backup, hardware-based power management all in a high availability setup.
About Zenith Infotech Europe
Zenith Infotech Europe is the European division of the international group Zenith Infotech Ltd. The European headquarters is based in Belgium, operated by A-Server NV. Zenith Infotech has a focus on providing standardized and scalable managed IT services to the reseller channel. The service is oriented exclusively to the SME segment.
The portfolio of services is a perfect complement to the activities of the IT reseller. These services are offered through the network operations center in Mumbai, India, where about 600 people support the managed services infrastructure and global customer portfolio.
The services include backup and business continuity solutions for SMEs, Monitoring and Management services for desktops and servers, and more recently the management of an overall SME IT environment via Style Smart Office, an innovative cloud computing solution for network computing. 40,000 sites currently managed by 4,000 IT resellers.
About Leading Edge
Leading Edge was started in 2000 with a focus on providing outstanding computer network solutions, services and support to SME businesses that want a partner who understands their business first and the effective alignment of IT solutions and services with their business goals and needs..
Over the years they have expanded their solutions and service portfolio to cover almost all aspects of business technology, including: Computer networks, Telephone systems (IP Telephony), Mobile workforce solutions. They have a simple and effective approach which helps their customers to streamline their IT, reducing costs, eliminating risks and improving reliability, Security and performance.
They also work with the best and most innovative technology providers like Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, SonicWall, Swyx, Avaya, Zenith Infotech and many others.
About Cloud.nl
Cloud.nl offers private cloud infrastructure in the Netherlands. Customers use an intuitive Cloud Management Center to manage their dedicated high available cloud infrastructure: virtual servers, virtual desktops, storage SAN and networking. Cloud.nl delivers private clouds out of their datacenter or directly on the customer site. Customers benefit many features in addition to a traditional environment like auto provisioning of servers, 15 minute snapshotting, cloning, upscaling, automatic failover, virtual datacenter designer, etc.
