Intelligent Data Centres Issue 06 | Page 9

NEWS Oman Data Park launches Professional-Services- as-a-Service (PSaaS) man Data Park (ODP), the Sultanate’s premier managed data centre services and cloud services provider, has announced its newest service offering Professional-Services-as-a-Service (PSaaS). O Responding to a growing market need to support various businesses in their quest to modernise and improve their own ICT services, this new service from ODP is a significant addition to Oman’s IT savvy market, bringing with it a host of certified expertise and experience. Supported by a highly qualified team of experts who have been actively engaged in managing and rolling out the award-winning services of ODP that are currently offered to their customers, this new service is aimed at helping and guiding customers through their Digital Transformation in preparation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Gig Economy. Maqbool Al Wahibi, CEO of Oman Data Park, said: “Having begun our operations in 2012, ODP has accumulated a host of expertise both in the lines of top-notch certifications and the local know-how in managing the various ICT challenges that are associated in this fast paced technologically driven world. “We understand that businesses of today have enough challenges focused on their growth and we would like to address their ICT challenges through our PSaaS offering so that the businesses can focus on their core services.” Six Degrees adds public cloud support capabilities to G-Cloud 11 K-based managed service provider Six Degrees has announced that public sector customers will be able to benefit from a comprehensive range of cloud services offered via the G-Cloud 11 framework. Six Degrees has added 54 U new services to G-Cloud 11, taking the total number of services offered through the framework to 80. the provider to help public sector organisations set up and maintain their cloud software or hosting services. Significantly, Six Degrees now offers a comprehensive range of services within the cloud support category, allowing Robert Grigsby, Product Director for Cloud, said: “We are seeing more and more public sector organisations looking to move directly to hyperscale cloud providers, especially Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. “Six Degrees is a cloud agnostic managed service provider – our focus is ensuring that our public sector clients host their services on the most appropriate secure, scalable, future- proofed infrastructure platforms, whether that means public, private, multi or hybrid cloud. “As part of our springboard to the cloud approach, we have added a range of cloud support services to our already extensive G-Cloud offerings in order to help facilitate our public sector clients’ digital transitions.” www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 06 9