LONDON, December 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Flexible cloud platform
enables innovative digital agency to steal a
march on its competition
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT
solutions and international communications business within the NTT
Group (NYSE: NTT), announced today that it has been chosen by
creative agency Rufus Leonard to support and manage its client
projects on Microsoft Azure, enabling it to be more agile and
responsive to client demands and speed up its digital
transformation.
Rufus Leonard is, as a leader in its field, delivering business
value by combining innovative design thinking with technology -
creating transformation experiences for lighthouse brands such as
Lloyd's Banking Group, Royal Mail, British Gas, and many other FTSE
100 companies. Rufus Leonard wanted a highly flexible cloud
solution to align its business with future growth and meet the
demands of new and existing clients.
"Due to the variable, unpredictable and sometimes leading edge
nature of the work that we deliver for our clients, we needed a
flexible cloud platform that could match our forward-thinking
processes for the development of new technology," explains
Dave Martin, Head of Service
Delivery for Rufus Leonard. "Our continually evolving business and
the transformational work we undertake for our clients needed a
platform that is not content to stand still or loiter in delivering
or enhancing and updating its technology". The agency opted to move
from its own private cloud to Microsoft Azure.
Rufus Leonard has a trusted relationship with NTT Com and turned
to NTT Com Managed Services for the ongoing management of its cloud
solutions. The agency chose Microsoft Azure because it best fitted
its business plan and, as far as possible, future proofed its
development environment. But most importantly it satisfied
the agency's hosting platform needs for clients' business-critical
systems.
"We are pleased to have been chosen as a managed services
partner by Rufus Leonard to help and support them in their digital
transformation journey, introducing them to the power and
capabilities of Microsoft Azure," said Damian Skendrovic CEO of NTT
Com Managed Services. "I can also announce that we have three new
customer projects rolling out at Rufus Leonard in Q1 of 2017 - all
of which are based on Microsoft Azure."
Microsoft Azure has reduced server provisioning time for Rufus
Leonard, providing a development incubation area for each of its
clients. This allows development process to start quicker and gives
clients access to the progress of build projects. It has also
allowed the development team to create new servers instantly, which
was not possible with its old platform. All these benefits
have reduced monthly expenditure. NTT Com Managed Services provides
managed services known as "Global Management One" around
virtualization, application management and operating system
management. These services enable Rufus Leonard to provide a
24/7/365 service to its customers.
NTT Com Managed Services is part of NTT Com and provides trusted
and secure enterprise-wide managed IT services. Headquartered in
Barcelona, Spain, the company
offers secure and optimized managed hybrid cloud
services.
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and
cloud services to optimize the information and communications
technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are
backed by the company's worldwide infrastructure, including the
including leading global tier-1 IP network, Arcstar Universal Oneā¢
VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions and over 140 secure data
centers worldwide.
NTT Communications solutions leverage the global resources of
NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT
DATA.
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