Deloitte has acquired three IT service providers in two months as part of its growth as a service provider, but has not overlooked its internal technology needs.
The professional services firm has signed on with VMware as an early adopter of the virtualisation vendor's vCloud Suite.
According to a VMware spokesperson, "Deloitte is not just a major implementer of technology for its clients, it also wants to transform its internal organisation by becoming a broker of technology services to its own people and VMware has been enlisted to help it achieve this goal."
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Deloitte Australia CIO Tim Fleming said: "Deloitte is using the VMware vCloud Suite to accelerate the vision of IT as a Service.
"We have invested in VMware to expand our storage capacity and backup functions, and critically offer a secure environment that provides the reliability and agility that a high-performing business demands.
"VMware vCloud will also deliver the efficiencies, capacity and data controls that our internal business units require," added Fleming.
[Related: Deloitte buys another two Aussie tech firms]
Duncan Bennet, vice president and managing director, VMware Australia and New Zealand, said: "Working with Deloitte provides VMware with a chance to demonstrate the power of our vision of bringing IT-as-a-service into the hands of CIOs across the region."
Over the past five years, Deloitte has been transitioning a vast majority of its workloads to its virtual environment that now runs 1000 virtual machines across 100 hosts.
News of the deal was announced at VMware's vForum 2013, which is currently running in Sydney.
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