independenceIT (iIT) today announced it has entered into an integration and distribution agreement with GCI, a UK based information communications technology providers. The agreement allows GCI to deliver iIT’s Cloud Workspace® Suite as part of the GCI Managed Cloud Solution portfolio for its customers and channel partners.
The independenceIT Cloud Workspace Suite is a services enablement platform that allows IT departments, ISVs and service providers to deploy desktops, applications and entire corporate IT systems as cloud services, enabling users to work from anywhere, at any time, on any device. The Cloud Workspace Suite includes support for more than 600 business applications and its API permits integration with existing systems management and provisioning tools. Comprehensive security and audit tools provide compliance readiness.
In support of organizations throughout the UK, iIT’s Cloud Workspace Suite now integrates with the GCI Managed Cloud Solution, a carrier-class managed computing platform that eliminates the need to maintain expensive servers or manage licensed versions of software. With this solution, users confidently access data from the Web, anywhere and anytime. Leveraging Cloud Workspace’s powerful application programming interface (API), GCI is integrating the solutions management and provisioning functions into its service delivery platform to extend desktop and application service provisioning, deployment and support functions.
Based on the Ensim service delivery platform, GCI integration via the Cloud Workspace API enables an efficient and flexible transition to the secure and compliant cloud-enabled desktop. Ensim is a widely deployed and proven service delivery platform that allows service providers to centrally create, control, and deliver hosted IP and application services. It is recognized for comprehensive service provisioning, wholesale and resale enablement and service metering/monitoring.
“True business agility means user access to applications and data anytime, anywhere, and across any device. iIT’s Cloud Workspace allows for a superior user experience without having to build and manage virtual desktop infrastructure internally,” said Scott Riley, Director of Hosting and Cloud Solutions at GCI . “Selected for its rapid deployment capabilities, ease of management, broad application support and simple integration, CWS underpins our offering to the benefit of our channel and customers.”
“Empowering device- and location-agnostic access to the desktop can be a powerful driver of innovation and productivity. Complemented by operational, security and compliance advantages, iIT’s Cloud Workplace Suite provides enterprise-class capabilities for any size organization to deliver on the promise of DaaS,” said Charles Buck, CTO for independenceIT.
