Unisys has unveiled a new cloud computing strategy and products portfolio for organisations to move enterprise application workloads to tailored cloud environments for maintaining the integrity of information.
The company claims that the new offering can overcome CIOs’ concerns about security of data in the cloud, cited by organisations and industry analysts as the top impediment to adopting cloud computing for business needs.
Rich Marcello, president of Unisys systems and technology, said: “I believe that cloud computing will revolutionise the way enterprises obtain business and IT services and change the kind of payback they get from their IT investments. Our clients tell us that they see great value in moving enterprise applications and data to the cloud. However, they have lacked the comprehensive security to make them confident in doing so.
He further said: “Our cloud computing strategy draws on all those core capabilities to help clients break through the barriers to adoption and gain a full range of options for cloud services while safeguarding their operations and lowering IT costs.”
The company said that its Stealth security product, initially designed for government applications, is now made available to commercial client cloaks data through multiple levels of authentication and encryption, bit-splitting data into multiple packets so that it moves across networks and protects data in the cloud.
The company also introduced two new offerings, Secure Cloud Solution, providing data security for multi-tenant environments in which clients share a common IT infrastructure, and Cloud Transformation services, reportedly a portfolio of advisory and implementation services to help clients assess cloud computing options and determine which option fits their needs or financial objectives.
The company’s Secure Cloud Solution, with availability planned for July 31, integrates Stealth technology that enables encrypted “data in motion” to remain invisible as it traverses the infrastructure until it is reassembled upon delivery to authorised users.
Additionally, the company’s new services also include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), for provisioning physical and virtual servers which both scale out and scale up; Secure Platform as a Service (PaaS), which provides a Java software stack with .NET support to allow clients to move their applications to the cloud without making changes; My Secure Application as a Service (AaaS) to support applications with multi-tier architectures; and Secure Software as a Service (SaaS) to provide access to hosted applications.
The company’s Cloud Transformation Services, available immediately, comprise three suites of services, Cloud Advisory Services, which guide clients about the implications that cloud computing may have for the business; Cloud Assessment Services, which help clients determine which applications and services are suited for cloud computing; and Cloud Migration Services, which help clients deploy applications to either a managed secure cloud or a client-managed internal cloud, or both.
The company is planning a “cloud-in-a-box” product as a comprehensive IT infrastructure package, and also hybrid cloud technologies by combining public and private cloud capabilities.
