LONDON, UK, Aug 17, 2015 – Attenda Ltd., the Business Critical IT company, announced that it is launching managed services for Microsoft Azure public cloud.
As an integral part of its Hybrid IT services capability, Microsoft Azure is the next logical step for Attenda’s portfolio of cloud services; with Microsoft Azure emerging as a leading public cloud option for the enterprise.
Attenda’s managed services for Microsoft Azure, coupled with the capability to review and transform enterprise workloads for public clouds, enables clients to exploit the extensive resources available with Microsoft Azure, within a flexible commercial model; whilst minimizing the need to re-engineer their existing applications.
As Oliver Presland, Attenda director, Service Strategy, comments, “With Microsoft Azure we can offer our enterprise clients a familiar and consistent range of public cloud services that can be readily embraced, to complement their existing outsourced or on-premises applications and infrastructure.”
The announcement of these new services builds upon Attenda’s extensive experience in managing business critical applications and infrastructure services for almost two decades. The managed services for Microsoft Azure will be delivered with the same high touch approach as for services from within Attenda’s own data centers, on client premises, and other Attenda managed public cloud platforms. The Microsoft Azure services are also delivered with an SLA that is matched to the business outcome enabled by the service.
The new Attenda service launch coincides with the announcement that Attenda has been selected to join the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. This program enables Attenda to manage its clients’ entire Microsoft cloud lifecycle for them, and provide rich managed services that wrap and deliver Microsoft cloud offerings within them.
Oliver Presland continues: “Attenda has a deep and enduring partnership with Microsoft, and many clients with Microsoft technologies. We see our positioning in the Microsoft Azure partner ecosystem as an important step in our Hybrid IT strategy.”
With key involvement in some of the most high profile, on premise to public cloud transformation programs in recent years, Attenda has built up its expertise and consultancy capability to optimize enterprise workloads for public cloud deployment. Its location and platform independent approach to Hybrid IT ensures that clients can adopt the right solution for their business, with applications running in the optimum location.
About Attenda Ltd.
They are one of the UK‘s leading managed service and cloud platform providers, specializing in running business critical applications. Their Business Critical IT approach combines business outcome focus with a structured engagement methodology and supporting services and infrastructure.
Through their structured review, design & change methodology, they help to facilitate the right choices for their clients, offering best advice; delivering platform and location independent services that ensure better business outcomes, whilst supporting business innovation and IT optimization. This enables clients to focus on strategy and their business, making them more competitive.
They have built up a commanding market reputation, with the industry’s leading accreditations and an unrivaled portfolio of UK enterprise Clients including BSi, CVC, Nisa, Princes, reed.co.uk, Regus and Travelodge.
Attenda is positioned in the Niche Players quadrant, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting 2015. [1]
Attenda is ISO9001, ISO27001, ISO20000 and ISO22301 accredited, is a Microsoft gold hosting partner, VMware premier service provider, a SAP partner, SAP certified in cloud services, HP gold service provider partner and a G-Cloud certified service provider.
For further details, visit www.attenda.com.
[1] Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Hosting, Europe by Tiny Haynes, Gianluca Tramacere, Gregor Petri, Andrew Watson June 2015
