Amcom Telecommunications Limited (AMM) has entered into an agreement to provide hosted Cloud services to The University of Western Australia (UWA). The partnership will involve Amcom hosting dedicated Cloud services for UWA in Amcom’s secure Data Centres in Perth. The initial contract value is $9 million over 3 years with options for extending. The Amcom hosted Cloud solution provides UWA hundreds of computer servers and over 400 terabytes of storage, delivered across Amcom’s secure, reliable dedicated geographical path diverse 10-gigabit fibre network between UWA and Amcom’s Data Centres.
Dr Mary Davies, UWA’s librarian and Director (Information Management), is delighted with the partnership. “As UWA’s requirements increase, it is vital for us to strategically plan to provide our students, academics and researchers all the computing power and storage to meet their future needs. Amcom has been able to provide us with a cost effective, secure, reliable and dedicated product that gives us capacity and capability across all faculties. It is both simple for us to manage and user friendly for our staff,” she said.
The Cloud services market is rapidly expanding globally and provides customers with significant benefits of cost and scale. Amcom is ideally placed to leverage this emerging trend in the Cloud with an established customer base of 900 blue chip corporate and government customers.
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is recognised internationally as a leading university. Its ground-breaking research, quality academic staff and state-of-the-art facilities combine to offer a vibrant student experience. Amcom is an award-winning Australian telecommunications company and provides high performance network services to business and government. Operating since 1998, Amcom specialises in providing data, internet, voice and hosted Cloud services to a range of customers.
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