Globe is first to bring Infrastructure as a Service to enterprise customers

Offered through its Globe Business unit, the company said that as cloud services are the straightway phase in communications, Globe is ready to provide Infrastructure as a Service to business clients whose telecom needs continue to evolve.

Globe Business has been providing a comprehensive range of ICT solutions relevant to the needs of various small, medium and large enterprises in the Philippines.

With IaaS, enterprises can have access to the latest technologies without the high costs of purchasing and maintaining hardware. As equipment that support operations are outsourced to a virtual environment, clients can get network access and solutions on-demand and pay only for what they use.

Whether it is storage, back-up, hardware, servers or network elements, these resources can be provisioned fast and are highly scalable suited to the specific needs of businesses. To boot, among the many advantages of IaaS are its relatively quick setup time and high availability.

Globe Business’ suite of IaaS solutions includes Backup as a Service, Storage as a Service, and Compute as a Service. All these are hosted at the Globe Data Center, a highly secure, ISO-certified facility that manages the critical ICT resources and needs of enterprises requiring the highest level of availability, reliability and redundancy.

Globe IaaS can be used in various enterprise-grade applications. To illustrate, IaaS can be employed to run large-scale operations just as that of a national election. Instead of purchasing physical servers at that time worrying about their subsequent disposal, the government can utilize the on-demand capability of cloud computing to manage and streamline their operations while the elections.

According to Francisco Claravall, head of business products and services at Globe Business, "We are indiscriminately expanding our solutions portfolio by offering the latest ICT innovations, just as Infrastructure as a Service, to our valued clients. Our goal is to keep enterprises abreast of new technologies and business solutions to help decision-makers set future ICT directions for their organizations."

The solutions enabler

"Globe remains steadfast in its commitment to provide superior customer experience as the solutions enabler and partner of the top corporations in the country," said Jesus Romero, head of Globe Business.

"We bring in new services just as cloud computing to make sure that the enterprise market in the Philippines has access to the most advanced, relevant ICT solutions available in the market today," he added.

Globe has partnered with respected industry leaders SANDZ Philippines and Ayala Systems Innovation Inc. to bring Infrastructure as a Service to its enterprise clients.

ASTI president Anthony Lau said, "We are pleased to partner with Globe, whose visionary commitment to customer satisfaction has inspired a new era of utility model. With the broadest portfolio of innovation solutions partners and expertise, ASTI can provide all the necessary pieces for a real cloud computing pay-per-use IaaS. I am very optimistic that it will help Globe maintain its lofty position as one of the telecom leaders in the country."