SCC adds to virtualisation portfolio

SCC has warned that UK companies face a major challenge keeping up with application services demand as businesses across the country prepare to deploy increasing numbers of virtual machines over the next year.

Unveiling a new agreement with I/O virtualisation firm Xsigo, Andy Wright, SCC’s director for vendor alliances believes a range of compelling factors will cause demand for virtualisation services to spike sharply in 2012.

“SCC has been working with a range of virtualisation technologies for years, but there’s little doubt that trends like flexible working, the consumerisation of IT and the emergence of cloud computing have combined to send virtualisation demand spiralling sharply upwards. To respond, companies will have to significantly accelerate their virtualisation activities and quickly adapt to the demands of this computing model,” says Wright.

The agreement with Xsigo will see SCC reselling the vendor’s next generation virtualisation products and integrating the technology in its service portfolio.

“SCC is always looking for new technologies that assist our clients in delivering more efficient IT solutions, in a more cost effective manner and with short concept to delivery times. Xsigo ticks all of these boxes,” adds Wright.