NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) will be supporting Collinson Group, a provider of loyalty, lifestyle benefits, assistance and insurance solutions, in its consolidation of IT infrastructure and enhancement of its agile IT ecosystem. NTT Com is the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group.
Collinson Group has an extensive portfolio of IT infrastructure assets to support a global base of over 800 blue chip clients globally and 2,000 employees across 25 locations, including a number in the Asia Pacific region. These include internal facilities, external data centres and cloud services, currently provided by several IT infrastructure suppliers. With expansion to new markets constantly on the agenda, Collinson Group is aligning its ICT services with its group strategy of operating and presenting a single business to a global market.
To this end it has enlisted NTT Com to unify its IT infrastructure and streamline service management and delivery. NTT Com will provide a hybrid cloud infrastructure utilising NTT Communications Enterprise Cloud service, including bare metal servers, a dedicated private network and security layer and public cloud services managed through a single pane of glass view using NTT Com's Cloud Management Platform. The first phase of delivery started in November 2016, and the consolidation is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Chris Lord, CIO, Collinson Group said "We are pleased to have identified NTT Com as a single tier-1 supplier able to support the flexibility of a hybrid infrastructure. We operate in an industry that relies on technical innovation. To successfully serve over 20 million end customers and support our clients worldwide, our IT team needs to provide agile services to meet the needs of the line-of-business applications and support maturing DevOps processes. Working with NTT Com will provide efficiency and drive increased performance. This will allow us to expedite greater control of group ICT costs by migrating to a consumption-based cost model whilst providing the ability to scale IT costs with continued business growth. We look forward to this partnership being a great asset in our growth and expansion."
Bob Welton, Regional Director, Northern Europe, NTT Europe said "Like many successful businesses that have grown through international expansion and acquisition, Collinson Group faced the fragmentation of its IT estate and disparate operating models. NTT Com's cloud transformation and IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) capabilities are ideally suited to meeting these challenges. Our Cloud Management Platform is tailormade to facilitate painless management of a hybrid environment so that Collinson Group can have complete visibility of usage and costs in a single screen enabling its IT team to make quicker, more informed decisions. We are confident of delivering Collinson Group's goals of a unified infrastructure."
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