DUBLIN: Vodafone Ireland said today that it is investing €7m to provide new data centre services for its business and public sector customers in Ireland.
The company said the investment is part of the expansion of its cloud and hosting business across Europe.
It said the new services, which will be available from the end of October 2015, will enable customers to securely outsource their full IT hardware resources and store large volumes of data and software applications with Vodafone, in either dedicated or shared infrastructure environments.
The company’s initial offering will range from co-location to managed hosting, private cloud and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
These new services will complement the existing capabilities from Vodafone cloud and hosting services across a network of 18 data centres in the UK, Germany and South Africa.
According to Vodafone Ireland, this latest expansion will bring its investment to almost €25m in recent years in expanding its total communications capabilities for business customers.
We are very excited to expand our business division into cloud and hosting services for large companies and public sector clients,” said Anne Sheehan, enterprise director at Vodafone Ireland.
This further consolidates our position as Ireland’s total communications provider for enterprise. Our customers such as Ryanair are increasingly moving their critical IT services to the cloud, and as a result of this announcement today, Vodafone Ireland can now offer our business customers the ability to host their IT services in Vodafone’s secure data centre facilities.”
