CSC Launches BizCloud in Asia - the Industry’s First On-Premise Private Cloud Charged As a Service

Dwayn Lythgo Named General Manager of Cloud Computing and Software Services for CSC in Asia

Malaysia, March 20, 2012 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced the expansion and availability of BizCloud™ in Asia, the first on-premise private cloud to be charged as a service.

BizCloud combines the privacy, security and control of a private cloud with the agility, convenience and commercial model of a public cloud.

Ready for workloads in 10 weeks, BizCloud accelerates the adoption of a private cloud by businesses and government agencies, eliminating lengthy implementations and the need to budget for capital investment.

By offering this service, CSC has taken the work out of implementing a private cloud and overcome the objections that security conscious organisations usually raise around cloud adoption. Initially launched in North America, BizCloud is now also available in the Europe and Australia.

BizCloud, a VMware™ vCloud Datacentre Service, gives users all the components needed for a private cloud, preconfigured, integrated and tested, on their own premises behind their firewall.

Customers subscribe to the service, pay only for what they use and can choose from different levels of service-level agreement, provisioning and support. All workloads are catered for and can be scaled up or down according to demand.

BizCloud features CSC CloudCompute™, CSC’s the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) architecture which is also deployed in the CSC Cloud datacentres. This allows users to take advantage of a hybrid approach by keeping mission critical applications on premise with BizCloud while using CSC’s off premises cloud for disaster recovery, business continuity or for setting up agile development and test environments.

CloudCompute, a VMware vCloud Datacentre Service, delivers compute, storage and network resources as a service to support any application and because of the security and service level agreements is especially capable for hosting mission critical and business critical workloads.

The CloudCompute infrastructure is built on the powerful, standardised cloud fabric, Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms, from VCE. The Vblock integrates leading virtualisation software from VMware; unified networking, security and computing from Cisco; and storage, security and management technologies from EMC.

“BizCloud and CloudCompute provide the centerpiece of the modern virtualised datacentre,” said Siki Giunta, vice president of Cloud Computing and Software Services, CSC. “There is a model for every organisation — whether you want self-managed or a managed service option, or you want private, public or a hybrid cloud, CSC is following through on our promise of delivering the right cloud, the right way. With CSC, every organisation can easily make the initial move to ‘as a service’ — infrastructure, platform and software on-demand.”

Commenting on the launch of BizCloud in Asia, Bob Hayward, chief technology & innovation officer for CSC in Asia said, “Asian organisations have been uncertain about the move from traditional IT to the Cloud. As an Asian first, customers can now take a safe first step to a preconfigured, integrated and tested private cloud on their own premises in just ten weeks.”

“IT delivery is transforming at a record pace and, by leveraging a converged infrastructure platform and solutions from VCE, CSC is accelerating the rate at which its customers can take advantage of the cost and flexibility benefits of cloud-based computing,” said Todd Pavone, senior vice president, Products and Solutions, VCE.

“For enterprises, it has been difficult to obtain the economic benefits of a public cloud which is delivered to them as a private cloud,” said Robert Mahowald, vice president, SaaS & Cloud Services, IDC. “CSC has been very strategic with this announcement. They engaged customers in a discussion about their business needs and developed a flexible solution that addresses those needs spot on. BizCloud and CSC's related services break new ground for IT buyers trying to navigate the road to data centre transformation.”

CloudCompute enables organisations to align workload requirements with the right CloudCompute package and service level. Customers mix and match the tiers of service with guaranteed availability levels from 99 to 99.95 percent. All CSC cloud models are billed as a service from a standard rate card.

Because BizCloud shares the same infrastructure as the CSC public and off-premises logically separeted cloud models, organisations can focus on moving workloads to the right cloud model based on the security and control those workloads require.

CSC today also announced the appointment of Dwayn Lythgo as general manager, Cloud Computing and Services for CSC in Asia. Dwayn Lythgo will be responsible for deploying CSC's cloud computing strategy and growing CSC's client footprint in Asia. He will report to Siki Giunta and work closely with Bob Hayward to advance CSC's leadership position in Cloud services locally.

“Dwayn’s extensive client services experience will be an asset as CSC helps clients make decisions about the shift from traditional IT to emerging services such as the Cloud,” Giunta commented.