Computacenter joins the Cloud Industry Forum

Computacenter, Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, has become the latest Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to join the Cloud Industry Forum.

Established in 1981, Computacenter has been helping customers focus on what's right for them for more than three decades. Computacenter’s experience and investment in products, services and partner technologies has allowed the company to develop an end to end cloud services portfolio, using our experience of delivering hardware and software to customers in more than 100 countries.

Paul Casey, Practice Leader - Cloud, Automation & Virtualisation at Computacenter, said: “The ever-expanding range of cloud solutions, deployment models and methods of contracting currently available on the market has no doubt given rise to a good deal of confusion among end users. The Cloud Industry Forum’s efforts to demystify cloud and improve education for both cloud users and providers are making an enormous difference to the industry, but we’ve got a long way to go.

“As a company, our strategy is focused on being able to help our customers define their strategy and aligning the right solution from our own portfolio and our partners, to enable customers to realise their goals. We take a customer-centric approach to the cloud – we help solve their challenges and achieve the best outcome for the customer. We look forward to working closely with CIF to improve education and understanding in the market, with the ultimate aim of raising cloud standards and increasing market adoption,” he continued.

Andy Burton, Cloud Industry Forum, added: “Cloud computing presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for IT departments and Service Providers, who have to adapt their business practices from a traditional on-premise capability to include the IT as a Service model. CIF’s mandate is to educate the market and drive best practice in the industry as a not-for-profit independent body. Having the support of industry members of the scale and influence of Computacenter’s helps bring depth in expertise to this arena, and enriches our Special Interest Groups. It is always heartening to work with organisations who demonstrate commitment to best practice and have a customer-centric approach, and as such makes Computacenter a very welcome addition to our membership roster and we have high hopes that this will be a long and successful partnership.”