Telecity Strategy

Demand and Supply drives TelecityGroup Strategy (Image Credit(C) S.Brooks 2015)(
Demand and Supply drives TelecityGroup Strategy

So what is Telecity doing about this? The latest announcement with Office365 is not in our opinion a decision that was difficult for Telecity to make. They already had the ExpressRoute connection to Azure and it was a natural progression that when Microsoft were willing to offer Office365 through that connection that they would aim to be one of the early adopters.

This is not the only supply side change that Telecity is planning though.Google Apps is already in a beta phase with clients already live but Adi was keen to stress that it is not ready for general availability yet. When this is likely to occur is unknown. This was summarised by Adi who said when questioned:

“On the supply side we connect to a range of public cloud service providers. At last count we have had eight sign up to the platform and three are active as we speak. Microsoft Azure itself breaks up into multiple services be it public, private and now MS services which include Office365 and going forward other applications. The second is Amazon web services and the third is Google Cloud Services which we are in the process of lighting up on Cloud IX. There are five another Cloud Service Providers that we are in the process of completing the engineering around.”

Of these five other Cloud Services providers iland and BrightBox are two. Both iland and BrightBox have their solutions hosted in the Telecity data centres in the UK so lighting them up into Cloud-IX should not take that long one assumes.

It is an interesting strategy and while Office365 seems to be the only SaaS solution amongst them at the moment we asked Adi about Salesforce. Bearing in mind that Tata communications has recently connected to the Salesforce cloud and the response was underwhelming. As such it is surprising that one of the use cases did not include connectivity to Salesforce. Adi’s comment seemed to be a placeholder rather than anything imminent:

“Salesforce is not something we offer at the moment, it is certainly on the roadmap and one of the services that we will be looking at going forward.”

(Next: So where is the growth coming from?)

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