Zayo move includes private, public and hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service cloud services
Zayo Group tapped its recent acquisition of Latisys to bolster its cloud portfolio with private, public and hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service cloud services for the U.S. and Europe.
Zayo noted the Latisys acquisition, which it completed earlier this year for $675 million, as well as recent purchases of AtlantaNAP and France-based Neo Telecoms, as central to the latest offering. The bolstered platform is said to now support value-added managed services targeting performance, security, scalability and continuity.
“These services include security services such as managed firewall, threat management and log management, performance services, such as load balancing, monitoring and database management and a variety of storage and backup solutions, including fully featured disaster recovery as a service,” the company explained.
The new services are also expected to take advantage of Zayo’s 6 million miles of fiber and 45 data centers that it claims currently support more than 7,000 enterprise and government organizations.
“The rapid adoption of cloud services makes Zayo’s expansion into this market a natural extension of our bandwidth infrastructure business,” said Chris Morley, COO and president of cloud and connectivity at Zayo. “Through acquisition and investment, we have built a set of private and hybrid cloud solutions that are compelling in their own right and even more so when combined with our extensive fiber and data center facilities.”
Zayo early last year picked up London-based fiber provider Geo Networks, which added more than 2,100 miles of fiber to Zayo’s European network.
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