24 April 2012     

MedNautilus new Cloud Solutions now available for Turkish corporate customers

MedNautilus, TI Sparkle Group operations in the Mediterranean, developed a new suite of highly flexible and scalable IaaS Cloud Solutions. 

MedNautilus, with the expertise of Telecom Italia Group, a leading cloud computing infrastructure and service provider in Europe, offers a new range of enhanced Cloud Solutions from traditional Co-location to Physical and Virtual hosting, catering to corporate customer’s needs in Turkey.

Today, Telecom Italia Sparkle Chief Executive Officer Riccardo Delleani talks about a new suite of highly flexible and scalable IaaS Cloud Solutions that servethe ever growing need of cost efficient and top security IT managed solutions of the corporate segment in Turkey.

Riccardo Delleani 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 is a potential growth area, driven by increasing marketing and applications that target SMBs, growth in content web hosting and customers’ desire to move from capital to operating expenses.”

With customers already active, MedNautilus Turkey General Manager Cem Dogrusoz speaks positively on the response received by the Turkish market on the new Cloud Solutions offer and states that they plan to have a market share of around 25% of the Turkish cloud computing market by 2015.

From IaaS to PaaS and SaaS solutions: a Partner Ecosystem 
MedNautilus growth strategy in Turkey is based on the creation apartner ecosystem that is able to draw independent software vendors, value added resellers, system integrators, 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 Cem Dogrusöz. “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". Dogrusoz 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 Turkey. Thanks to our vendor-agnostic approach to data center services, MedNautilus is able to host our partners’ applications with no compliance issues.”

Riccardo Delleani also focuses on why MedNautilusinvest in the Turkish IT and Telecom market by saying; “Turkey is a bridge between East and West and a major telecommunication hub capturing Europe to Asia demand flows; Istanbul is becoming a major financial center in the region, attracting corporates in need of cloud. MedNautilus as part of the TI Sparkle Group has already deployed relevant investments in transport and Data Center infrastructure in Turkey in the past. This additional investment in Cloud helps us to enrich and differentiate our offer to corporate customers and address new market segments by leveraging our existing assets.”

New cloud solutions leverage consolidatedknow-how 
MedNautilusCloud solutions is a suite of highly secure and top quality integrated IaaS services including Co-location, physical and virtual hosting solutions based on world’s most advanced vendor technologies, which provide our customers with top class system architecture and excellent monitoring and integrated support systems.The new cloud solutionsoffer also leverages the know-how and the relevant economies of scale successfully developed by Telecom Italia Group,a leading cloud computing player and primary Cloud Infrastructure Service Provider in Europe.

Unique Data Center facilities 
MedNautilus owned and operated New Generation Data Center in Yenisbona, Istanbul offers 2,000 square meters dedicated to Co-location, Physical and Virtual Hosting solutions, from a rack to an extended cage. The Data Center in Istanbul is equipped with the latest high-density power configurations and maximum-efficiency cooling equipment. The entire space is protected with 24/7 in-house Security.

Consulting services and scalability model to maximize cost efficiency
The new Cloud Solutions includeConsulting Services that support customers in tailoring and optimizing their IT architecture and cost of services in order to effectively match their needs with the Cloud services offered. Additional benefits include top security and reliability, easy and fast implementation, a high level of scalability, great flexibility in service configuration as well as in contractual solutions. Another crucial benefit is the 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, thanks to the high scalability of the offer.

The 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.

Istanbul Data Center to provide strong ‘disaster recovery’ service
With the aim of developing aDisaster Recovery Solution, MedNautilus is creating a network of Data Centers in the Mediterranean by building new advanced infrastructure in Catania and Athens which will leverage MedNautilus network capabilities. MedNautilus owns and operates the only ring configured backbonein the Mediterranean providing the Istanbul data center with unique and protected combination of terrestrial and submarine connectivity to Europe.

TI Sparkle Group acts as the Internet Backbone of the strong network-based services @ Data Center
With TI Sparkle Tier 1 Global IP MPLS Backbone and MedNautilus 7,5000 kilometers of ring-configured regional backbone, the New Generation Data Center in Istanbul is equipped with a unique terrestrial and submarine connectivity to Europe, which translates into seamless and fully resilient IP connectivity and MPLS capabilities.

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.

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