SYDNEY, Australia, 11 May 2009 – Today Alphawest, a national provider of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) services and a wholly owned subsidiary of Optus Networks Pty Ltd, announced it has fulfilled the training and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support a new data centre offering dedicated to the Cisco Unified Computing System.
Alphawest is one of the first Australian members to achieve Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Authorised Technology Provider status and is collaborating with Cisco to help customers navigate the architecture transition to optimise virtualisation, reduce the total overall cost of the data centre and amplify business results.
With the introduction of the Cisco Unified Computing System, Alphawest is developing integrated data centre solutions tailored to specific customer needs and collaboratively delivering services with Cisco. The Cisco Unified Computing System unites network, computational, storage access and virtualisation resources in a single energy efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets and improve business agility into the future.
Rob Parcell, CEO, Alphawest, commented, “Alphawest is delighted to be one of the first Australian IT service providers in the Cisco partner ecosystem for its new data centre architectural model – Unified Computing. We have realigned our data centre practice to take advantage of this unique opportunity and develop for our customers next generation data centres that unleash the full power of virtualisation.”
He continued, “Alphawest has extensive expertise in Data Centre technologies and is also one of the most awarded virtualisation service providers in the Asia Pacific region with a depth of skills and expertise in integrating solutions from end-to-end. It therefore makes sense for us to further invest in skills and resources around Cisco’s innovative world-leading technology. This investment will help us deliver to our customers increased productivity, improved business agility, better protection of existing IT investments and extend the life and scalability of the data centre.”
“As a Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Authorised Technology Provider, Alphawest is a member of an elite ecosystem of industry leaders working with Cisco to help customers transform the data centre into a dynamic IT environment with the power to increase productivity, improve efficiency and drive virtualisation to an entirely new level,” said Dylan Morison, Data Centre Manager for Cisco in Australia and New Zealand. “Alphawest in conjunction with Optus, already possesses the networking, computing, virtualisation, storage and integrated services practices to help customers successfully make the transition to Unified Computing. ”
Alphawest has been closely involved with Cisco’s journey to simplify data centre infrastructure, such as achieving the Cisco Advanced Data Centre Networking Infrastructure (DCNI) Specialisation in 2008. In addition, Alphawest has been a Cisco Gold Accredited partner since 1998 and has invested significantly in Cisco specialisations and advanced technologies to help customers achieve greater cost efficiencies and reduce their environmental impact.
