Frost & Sullivan has awarded Tata Communications the 2019 Global Product Line Strategy Leadership Award for global hybrid cloud services.
The award recognizes the company as a leader in creating a robust, global hybrid cloud offering. Tata’s IZO cloud enablement platform acts as a one-stop-shop for customers looking to pursue more deliberate multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies to balance performance and cost while meeting the specific needs of applications and workloads.
Through its IZO cloud enablement platform, Tata has integrated multiple, popular infrastructures, hypervisors, and operating systems for management into a single, streamlined platform. Within that single view, the company addresses some of the most critical business challenges today through the integration of services higher up in the stack that offer significant value to its customers.
The company’s hybrid cloud platform supports a set of standard APIs that make it easy to integrate or migrate workloads, or to split applications and workloads into a hybrid configuration among a variety of infrastructures. It also provides business management features including showback/chargeback by department, resource allocation, usage monitoring and metrics and user profile management.
An embedded workflow engine provides SLA management as well as third-party application integration and key IT infrastructure library (ITIL) services such as incident management. A customer-facing self-service portal facilitates the self-service delivery of approved applications and services to both internal customers and partners.
In addition, comprehensive security features are integrated directly into the platform to help customers meet their IT security requirements. These features incorporate a homegrown threat intelligence platform using big data and artificial intelligence capabilities, which is an integral part of the company’s global cybersecurity response centers.
