IIHT Cloud Solutions, a subsidiary arm of IIHT Limited, announced Dell as its trusted solution platform to create one of the world's first vertical cloud services solution for IT Training, Test and Development Industry.

The IIHT Cloud is one of India's largest cloud installations. IIHT Cloud Solutions has formed a consortium of solution providers comprising of ESDS and Nestor to power its Cloud Platform. The multi-million dollar ESG (Enterprise Solutions Group) and datacenter deal follows similar cloud infrastructure wins for Dell in India in recent months. This is also the first Dell Force 10 win in India post acquisition.

Shivajee R Sharma, President and CIO, IIHT Cloud Solutions said, “When we decided to pioneer an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud, servicing the Training, Test and Development segment, our value proposition was very clear, 'own virtual data centers and not just virtual machines.' As an architect my challenge was to build a cloud platform, which gives an experience as close to a real data center infrastructure and is highly capable of supporting real-time experiential cloud service which is accessible anywhere, anytime and on any device instantly on demand. The Dell Blade solutions enabled us to build the scale and density required for the cloud and Dell Force10 z9000 network switches allowed us to build a highly scalable 320 Gbps throughput IP SAN to support the instant provisioning.”

Sharma further added, “While selecting the consortium partner with Data Center co-location services to host our cloud solution, we were looking for partner with very deep expertise and experience of cloud platform and ESDS with its developed cloud fabric for its web hosting services clearly emerged as the best Data Center co-location service provider for us. Nestor, a core member of the consortium, with its expertise in handling the end-to-end deliveries and it's deep relations with IT OEM's worked with us on this project from the beginning as our preferred solution partner.”