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Xerox’s ACS Rolls Out Public, Private Cloud Service

Xerox-owned Affiliated Computer Services this week became the latest IT services company to debut an enterprise service that blends both private and public cloud services though an on-demand delivery model. ACS Enterprise Cloud is designed to support the Vblock infrastructure package, a pre-integrated and pre-tested virtualized data center offering developed by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC […]

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May 25, 2010

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Xerox-owned Affiliated Computer Services this week became the latest IT services company to debut an enterprise service that blends both private and public cloud services though an on-demand delivery model.

ACS Enterprise Cloud is designed to support the Vblock infrastructure package, a pre-integrated and pre-tested virtualized data center offering developed by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC (NYSE: EMC) and VMware (NYSE: VMW).

As more and more companies transition away from traditional on-premise software implementations for either pure on-demand or hybrid options, IT service providers are racing to develop Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings that give enterprise customers the flexibility to add and delete apps on the fly without paying huge upfront installation fees and recurring service and maintenance fees.

According to Gartner, worldwide cloud computing services revenue will grow from just over $56 billion last year to more than $150 billion by 2013.

“This service takes the fog out of cloud computing,” Ken Stephens, ACS’ senior vice president of global strategy and service management, said in a statement. “They will know exactly what they are purchasing, when they are buying it and how much it is costing them.”

The ACS Enterprise Cloud can be integrated into the company’s ITIL-compliant ACS Management Platform to speed the deployment of standardized business applications from the cloud.

Xerox said the ACS Enterprise Cloud solution extends the ACS Management Platform (AMP v1.0) delivered through a partnership with Novell that utilizes its Intelligent Workload Management solutions. The ACS Management Platform adds cloud-centered functionality such as self-service provisioning, role-based access controls, automated OS and middleware configuration.

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) announced its blockbuster $6.4 billion purchase of Dallas-based ACS last September. ACS, which became an independent “Xerox company” after the acquisition, bills itself as the world’s largest business-process outsourcing (BPO) firm.

Larry Barrett is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.

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Larry Barrett

Larry Barrett is a freelance journalist and blogger who has covered the information technology and business sectors for more than 15 years. Most recently, he served as the online news editor for 1105 Media's Office Technology Group and as the online managing editor for SourceMedia's Investment Advisory Group publications Financial Planning, On Wall Street, and Bank Investment Consultant. He was also a senior writer and editor at Ziff Davis Media's Baseline Magazine, winner of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, and ZDNet. In addition, he's served as a senior writer and editor at prominent technology and business websites including CNET, InternetNews.com, Multichannel News, and the San Jose Business Journal.

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