Electro Sales Corporation (ESC), a leading System Integrator, has announced the roll out of its cloud datacenter ‘Merino Cloud’ for SMEs in New Delhi, in partnership with Merino Services Limited (MSL). Merino Cloud, based on high performance cloud optimized storage systems from EMC, a leader in information infrastructure solutions, will offer Software-as-a-Service (Saas), Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to customers. Merino Cloud will enable customers leverage the full benefits of cloud computing by giving them access to managed hosting services, cloud hosting services and co-location services.

Through Merino Cloud, Electro Sales Corporation aims to provide a public cloud datacenter for the SME segment, which can serve as proof-of-concept centre as well as a test and demonstration centre where all the components of the cloud infrastructure can be demonstrated as a single solution. Through these services, customers will be able to bring in their applications and host them on the cloud and test their performance on live or test environments. Customers will also be able to check SSL VPN and IPSec VPN functionality and performance and test their applications on this datacenter.

SME information solution needs are growing rapidly, and this segment is most likely to adopt the latest information infrastructure technologies such as consolidation, virtualization, backup, recovery and archive technology or disaster recovery. In today’s market environment, a key challenge for SMEs is the lack of skilled IT labor. The business challenges in the SME segment are not new, and their transformations are putting pressure on IT resources to change with them. Most customers based on their experience are looking to partner with vendors who are ready to take the role of a true partner and help customers in adopting the right technologies.

The Merino Cloud will provide SMEs automated tools for monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, capacity planning and reporting to manage the complete storage environment, enabling them to manage backup even without any access to 24X7 operations and skilled workforce.

Key features of the Merino Cloud include:

• High Availability
• Capacity on Demand
• Snapshot of the complete virtual servers
• Storage on Demand
• Patch on Demand
• Backup on Demand
• Firewall on Demand
• VPN Services