Logicalis US Ranked Among Top 100 Cloud Services Providers

NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), announced today that it has once again ranked among the world's Top 100 Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), according to Penton Media's fourth-annual Talkin' Cloud 100 report. The Top 100 CSPs generated more than $23.4 billion in combined cloud services revenues in 2013, up nearly 44 percent from what they reported the previous year. The full report is available now by visiting http://www.talkincloud.com/tc100.

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Logicalis has a wide variety of cloud offerings including traditional infrastructure as a service (IaaS), disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), private and hosted private cloud, a multi-tenant managed cloud, and a multi-tenant self-service "on demand" cloud.  Logicalis also recently announced Cloud Storage for Backup as well as a new cloud management feature, the Multi-Cloud Management Portal, that allows customers to easily manage their cloud services.

In addition to honoring Logicalis, this year's Talkin' Cloud 100 report profiles:

• Cloud Services Providers: CSPs offer SaaS (software as a service), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and/or PaaS (platform as a service) to partners/customers.
• Cloud Services Brokerages: CSBs, or cloud brokers, recommend and resell multiple cloud services to customers, and often integrate those services.
• Cloud Services Aggregators: CSAs, or cloud aggregators, typically offer a portal that allows VARs and MSPs to source multiple third-party cloud services for customers.
• MSPs (Managed Service Providers) with cloud services expertise: MSPs proactively monitor and manage customers' on-premises and cloud-based systems.
• VARs (value-added resellers) with cloud services expertise: VARs offer a range of IT consulting, deployment, integration and management services to customers.

"As companies embrace a services-led IT model, the way they employ cloud solutions will grow in importance," says Mike Martin, Senior Vice President, Solutions and Services, Logicalis US.  "In IT today, the CIO's top job is to deliver IT services the way the company's users want to consume them.  In many cases, where those services are physically located is unimportant; it's the ability to consume the right solution that matters to the organization's business users, and accessing those resources and solutions in the cloud often makes the most business and financial sense.  As a result, the choice of which cloud service provider to partner with is becoming a business-critical decision for CIOs, making lists like the Talkin Cloud 100 an important tool for customers who are searching for the right cloud partners and an important indicator of success for companies like Logicalis that are listed among the best-of-breed cloud service providers."

The Talkin' Cloud 100 report is based on data from Talkin' Cloud's online survey, conducted January through May 2014. The Talkin' Cloud 100 report recognizes top cloud service providers based on such metrics as annual cloud services revenue growth (both in actual dollars and in percentage growth rates).

"Penton and Talkin' Cloud congratulate Logicalis," says Charlene O'Hanlon, Senior Executive Editor and Executive Managing Editor of Talkin' Cloud. "The Talkin' Cloud 100 represents those companies leading the way in the cloud space at a critical point in the maturation of the market."

Talkin' Cloud, produced by Penton, is the go-to resource for CSPs, VARs and MSPs profiting from cloud computing. Talkin' Cloud features a daily blog, research, Channel Expert Hour Webcasts and FastChat videos. It is the first online media destination for channel partners working in the cloud.

Want to Learn More?

• Explore other recent Logicalis achievements and recognitions here: http://ow.ly/CXYjI.
• Moving to the cloud is a journey; where are you along that road? Visit http://ow.ly/C56z8 to find out.
• Explore Logicalis' cloud offerings here: http://ow.ly/ClmPe, then schedule either an in-person or live-streaming demo to see the cloud in action at one of Logicalis' two Cloud Centers of Excellence.  

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About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration, data center and cloud services, and managed services.

Logicalis employs nearly 3,700 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector customers.  To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow.

The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of $1.6 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading IT and Communications solution integrators specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of over $5 billion.

For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.

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Media contacts:
Lisa Dreher, VP, Marketing & Business Development,
Logicalis US
[email protected]
425-201-8111
www.us.logicalis.com

Karen Franse, Communication Strategy Group for Logicalis US
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866-997-2424
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Jessica Davis, Executive Editor, Penton
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Charlene O'Hanlon, Senior Executive Editor, Penton
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