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 The company had already been operating its public cloud in the US, which it brought over from its OpSource acquisition in June 2011.

 Dimension Data has announced a series of cloud services for both public and private clouds that are intended to make it easier for organizations to adopt cloud computing more quickly. The services perform functions associated with planning, design, deployment and management of private, public and hybrid clouds. The new offerings include the Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform, which helps deliver the cloud services, and Dimension Data CloudControl, a cloud management system that automates provisioning, orchestration, administration and billing. Services include advisory and consulting services on cloud enablement, integration services across IT systems and clouds, managed hosting, managed services, and value-added services such as disaster recovery.

 Dimension Data has unveiled a range of cloud services that are available immediately on a global basis. Services include: Cloud Enablement, advisory and consulting services; Cloud and System Integration; Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS); Public CaaS, compute resources via a shared service with both pay-as-you-go and monthly plans; Private CaaS, a pre-determined set of compute resources as a dedicated service deployed in a client data centre; Managed Hosting; Managed Services; Advanced Cloud Services; and Application Services.                 

 At last week’s UBM TechWeb Cloud Connect conference in California, attendees found a wave of insight, product releases and demos of soon-to-be-released technologies for all parts of the cloud design-test-deploy-manage lifecycle. IDN takes a quick virtual tour of some of the highlights.

 Dimension Data cannonballed into the cloud pool today with a number of new enterprise cloud services, mostly acquired with its purchase of OpSource in June of last year.

 Dimension Data, the big systems integrator, bought OpSource for its cloud services in June, and is now unveiling the updated clouds offering under its brand. The services include a public compute-as-a-service cloud, a private version of same, as well as managed hosting and managed services — all using the same technology base.

 Solutions provider Dimension Data is ready to bring the technology and talent it acquired in last year’s acquisition of OpSource to bear with the launch of global (Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, and Middle East and Africa regions) services delivered on its Managed Cloud Platform.

 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — ICT services and solutions provider Dimension Data announced on Thursday it has launched a comprehensive range of cloud services designed to simplify the process of adopting cloud computing.

 Just about everybody would agree that cloud computing is an IT journey, it’s just no one is quite sure where that journey will take them. The lack of visibility has a lot of IT organizations opting to take a few baby steps towards cloud computing in 2012 versus rushing to implement a complete end-to-end strategy.

 SYS-CON Events announced today that OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data's wholly owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.