XO Communications is accelerating its push into cloud computing by launching three new cloud service offerings available to channel partners — XO Enterprise Cloud, XO Cloud Drive and XO Cloud Vault.
The new XO cloud solutions leverage Tier III data centers and the XO nationwide network to offer secure, high availability IT infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings that enable mid-sized businesses and larger enterprises to virtualize their data centers, back up enterprise-wide data to the cloud, and enable cloud-based file sharing and storage for employees.
The XO cloud solutions also provide the service level agreements, integrated security, and high-performance data center and network that allow IT professionals and the organizations they support to run a wide range of applications in the cloud, from test and development to mission-critical applications.
“IT organizations are continually pressured to support an increasing number of mission-critical applications with fewer resources, causing businesses to seek out virtual solutions as a way to effectively and efficiently expand core operations without spending unnecessary capital, ” said Jake Heinz, vice president of marketing at XO Communications. “In response to this industry need, XO Communications has expanded our services for dedicated cloud resources. This deeper commitment to the infrastructure-as-a-service market puts XO Communications in the best position to serve mid- and large-sized businesses for their computing, data and network requirements.”
XO Enterprise Cloud offers cloud computing services delivered in a private and secure network environment. Customers have a choice of multiple network connectivity options to access the platform and multiple computing resource allocation options, such as shared, reserved and dedicated, depending on what best supports their application needs.
XO Cloud Drive meanwhile allows companies to give their employees the ability to store, share, synchronize and collaborate on business content and files in the cloud, while giving IT organizations the ability to control and centralize how business content is shared. With XO Cloud Drive, files can be drag-and-dropped, saved virtually for consistent version control and shared anywhere, anytime, across multiple platforms and among numerous users for seamless collaboration. The cloud-based platform provides uniform access to files across the following platforms, including iOS, Android, mobile Web, Windows, Mac and Linux.
XO Cloud Vault automates and simplifies backup services for businesses with multiple locations or complex, distributed IT environments. Customers can replicate data from the XO Enterprise Cloud platform as well as from premise-based servers and desktops. An intelligent backup design provides compression, encryption and copy of only those documents, e-mails and databases that have changed since the most recent backup, across the following platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and FreeBSD. To restore, the virtual design allows users to point and click to refresh files to a single point in time, streamlining and automating disaster recovery/business continuity planning for businesses of all sizes.
