This new partnership gives C4L the opportunity to add a set of advanced cloud offers to expand its portfolio and enables Virtustream to provide existing and new customers improved access to its Data Centres and Cloud platform using C4L’s newly launched CoreTX MPLS network. In addition, C4L can now leverage Virtustream’s Data Centres, Service Provider partners and xStream Cloud platform, both in the UK & internationally, fuelling their international growth plans.
Headquartered in the US, with four privately-owned Data Centres (DC’s) across the UK and USA, Virtustream has high profile Private and Public sector clients around the world. Virtustream have selected C4L as UK Colocation experts and is now an official C4L Partner Network ‘Technology Partner’. Through this partnership, C4L will assist Virtustream by providing colocation and connectivity requirements to new clients and creating additional revenues across their DC’s.
In turn, Virtustream to will extend and strengthen C4L’s current cloud offering to include Enterprise-Class Cloud features such as enhanced security, compliance and mission critical application support.
Pete Hill, Business Development Director at C4L, said: “Virtustream have provided C4L with Colocation space in their Slough Data Centre (UKDC1) for the last 4 years, this being one of the Points of Presence (PoPs) C4L has access to in its large UK footprint of DC’s. Virtustream’s core strength and expertise lies in providing cloud computing solutions to enterprise and government clients. We plan to leverage this expertise to gain new exposure to enterprise market verticals as well as expand our overseas customer base.”
Grant Chambers, UK Sales Manager of Virtustream, said: “It gives me great pleasure to partner with C4L. The service offerings of both of our companies complement each other and will benefit our customers immensely. The C4L Partner network provides Virtustream’s customers with the ability to connect to multiple company locations seamlessly and transport their data using C4L’s high performance CoreTX MPLS network nationwide.”