Adelaide ISP Adam Internet has become the latest telco to launch into the cloud space, inking a deal with IT services company BlueFire for an Adelaide-based cloud solution.
The Adam Business Cloud will be hosted out of the ISP's Adelaide data centre and targeted towards the South Australian market. Adam managing director Scott Hicks told CRN the solution will go live around February next year, with several companies already testing the solution in beta.
He said customers were crying out for locally-hosted data.
“We’ve always had a policy of becoming the biggest fish in a small pond and doing our market really well,” he said. “The main advantage with the cloud solution is your data is local. Our customers want to know their data is hosted locally and that’s a big part of our sales pitch.”
The Business Cloud will launch with a range of up to 16 products, starting from $55 per month for smaller businesses, including a $1000 set up fee, and will offer hosted desktop, enterprise email, software and applications, web conferencing, data recovery and business continuity.
Hicks said there was no maximum capacity to the scalable offering. “BlueFire has sold solutions where they’re talking about petabytes of storage and obviously this product is very much aimed at enterprise, corporate and government, so we hope to be selling some of those solutions with those types of numbers and figures.”
Hicks told CRN the company was currently in discussions with existing customers in the educational sector for the new solution, but declined to name names.
BlueFire was acquired by IT integrator Dimension Data in December 2008.
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