Vodafone and IBM have announced an alliance to launch Vodafone Virtual Private Cloud, a new private cloud offering for Vodafone Portuguese enterprise customers.
Vodafone Virtual Private Cloud will provide customers the scalability, efficiency and security they need to speed their digital transformation. Portuguese businesses are accelerating their digital transformation and increasing their use of cloud-based services and technologies to improve their resilience, sustainability and competitiveness.
IBM will provide the dedicated private infrastructure to Vodafone Portugal which will be hosted in IBM’s datacenter in Portugal. With Vodafone Virtual Private Cloud, customers will be able to access a self-service portal created and managed by IBM, where they will be able to run and manage their IT workloads while benefitting from the high scalability, cost-effectiveness and adaptability of the solution to evolving client needs.
Additionally, customers will have the option to use a range of automation and monitoring capabilities and IBM managed services to help them manage, optimize and update their virtual infrastructure and run their business more efficiently.
Besides access to a solution based on the best network in the market, Clients who opt for Cloud Services will have Vodafone’s Cyber Security solutions at their disposal, enabling them to more seamlessly and securely manage their systems in a virtual environment. With this offering, Vodafone clients may have one-stop-shop provider regarding to a range of services like telecommunications, cloud, cybersecurity and managed services.
Henrique Sacadura Fonseca, Business Segment Administrator of Vodafone Portugal
If the use of cloud-based technologies and services was already a differentiating factor for many organizations, thanks to the agility, security, innovation, scalability and cost reduction obtained, it has now become more urgent in the actual pandemic context and with remote work being mandatory in most cases.
José Eduardo Fonseca, Global Technology Services Leader, IBM Portugal
Our growing work with Vodafone – and specifically Vodafone Portugal – is another example of our shared commitment to meeting the needs of customers wherever they are on their hybrid cloud journeys. T
