MedNautilus new Cloud Solutions now available for Greek corporate customers
MedNautilus, TI Sparkle Group operations in the Mediterranean, developed a new suite of highly flexible and scalable IaaS Cloud Solutions. Telecom Italia Sparkle CEO Elisabetta Ripa declares that this investment responds to the ever growing need of cost efficient and top security IT managed solutions of the corporate segment in Greece. MedNautilus Greece CEO Arturo Danesi says: “We plan to enrich our offer with PaaS and SaaS solutions by developing a partner ecosystem for the benefit of the Greek Corporate Customer segment”.
MedNautilus, backed by the expertise of Telecom Italia Group, Italy’s largest TLC company and a leading cloud computing infrastructure and service provider, launches today a new suite of highly flexible and scalable Cloud Solutions from traditional Co-location to Physical and Virtual hosting, responding to Greek corporate customer’s growing needs for cost efficient and top security IT managed solutions.
Telecom Italia Sparkle Chief Executive Officer Elisabetta Ripa states:“The key priorities for corporations during the next two years will continue to be cost savings, data center consolidation and energy efficiency. In line with this scenario, virtual hosting services are a potential growth area, driven by increasing marketing and applications that target SMEs, growth in content web hosting and customers’ desire to move from capital to operating expenses”.
Security, reliability and cost control are the values that MedNautilus Cloud Solutions will generate for the corporate segment in Greece. Med Nautilus Greece Cloud Solutions will support customers in tailoring and optimizing their IT architecture, while reducing the cost of services. Additional benefits will include top security and reliability, easy and fast implementation, high level of scalability and great flexibility in service configuration as well as in contractual solutions. Another crucial benefit will be drastic reduction of the customer’s total cost of infrastructure ownership, by shifting from investment to operational expenses tailored on real use of the service, thus providing customers with full control of their operational costs.
MedNautilus Cloud Solutions suite of services is characterized by a diversified set of modular packages of Operational Support Services which have been designed to ensure maximum efficiency in responding to a wide range of customer needs; from Basic Help Desk, which provides daily customer service assistance, up to a higher management support, which delivers continuous service status monitoring and proactive solutions in case of failure or service upgrade requirements.
From IaaS to PaaS and SaaS solutions: a Partner Ecosystem
MedNautilus growth strategy in Greece is based on the creation a partner ecosystem that is able to attract independent software vendors, value added resellers, system integrators and developers as well as niche application solutions providers, with attractive business opportunities.
“Our market share in the Cloud segment will increase as our partners grow their businesses”, states Arturo Danesi. “Through our partner program we can transfer all the know-how necessary to our partners to address their customers’ needs in a short time, with a win-win approach for all parties in the ecosystem”. Danesi continues: “MedNautilus is strongly committed to enrich its offer with PaaS and SaaS solutions through this partner ecosystem for the benefit of the corporate segment in Greece. Thanks to our vendor-agnostic approach to data center services, MedNautilus is able to host our partners’ applications with no compliance issues”.
New Cloud Solutions leverage consolidated know-how and local infrastructure in Greece
MedNautilus Cloud Solutions is a suite of highly secure and top quality integrated IaaS services including co-location and physical and virtual hosting solutions based on world’s most advanced vendor technologies, which provide our customers with top class system architecture deployed over the three MedNautilus owned and operated national Data Centers in Greece, which ensure excellent monitoring and integrated support systems. Elisabetta Ripa added: “The new cloud solutions leverage the know-how and the relevant economies of scale successfully developed by Telecom Italia Group, a leading telecommunications and cloud player in Europe and in South America”.
Unique Data Center facilities in Greece
MedNautilus owns and operates a total of 8,000 square meter space in the three New Generation Data Centers in Koropi, Metamorphosis and Chania, dedicated to Co-location, Physical and Virtual Hosting solutions. The three Data Centers also provide a solid local Disaster Recovery service as they are interconnected to the Group’s Data Centers in Italy and Turkey through MedNautilus own advanced submarine fiber optic network.
About MedNautilus:
MedNautilus is the Mediterranean operations of the Telecom Italia Sparkle Group and is the only telecommunication submarine cable backbone with a ring configuration in the Mediterranean since 2001. The MedNautilus network provides end-to-end connectivity from the eastern part of the Mediterranean to major destinations in Europe and is the leading connectivity solutions provider in the region. It uses state-of-the-art DWDM technology offering seamless connectivity between Italy, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel and Cyprus by way of a 7,500 km backbone and is able to extend its reach to major cities in Europe, North America and the world thanks to protected interconnections with Telecom Italia Sparkle Pan-European and Global Backbones.