NTT Europe Announces its OpSource-Powered Cloud Solution

LONDON, July 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Europe (http://www.eu.ntt.com/en/index.html), an ICT solution partner and wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html )(NTT Com), today announced that it is leveraging OpSource's cloud capabilities, the NTT Com Global IP Network and NTT Com data centre infrastructure to offer an enterprise-grade, public cloud solution to its customers in the European market. OpSource (http://www.opsource.net/)is a leading company in cloud and managed hosting solutions.

NTT Europe's OpSource Cloud is a public cloud offering powered by OpSource. It provides enterprises the ability to rapidly build and deploy their own cost-effective and scalable IT environment, easily managed via a self-service portal from anywhere in the world. As an ICT solution partner NTT Europe's main focus is on providing customers with propositions that meet all of their business needs from a global network infrastructure, application management, systems integration and managed hosting to virtualization solutions or content delivery.

NTT Europe's OpSource Cloud offering is an extension of the company's suite of Cloud Computing and Virtualization Services based on the VMware virtualization platform. Satisfying the immediate needs of a public cloud offering for enterprise customers in Europe, this service offering complements NTT Europe's private cloud, known as Global Virtualization Services. NTT Europe's OpSource-powered Cloud is built to run enterprise-class software as a service (SaaS) and web applications, and is ideal for customers who are developing applications or seeking flexible solutions to deploy computing power on demand.

"We are very excited to offer OpSource's market-leading technology as the new public cloud service to our customers, as this demonstrates our commitment to providing them with a complete and highly competitive portfolio of hosting options and solutions," said Masaaki Moribayashi, Managing Director of NTT Europe. "With NTT Europe, our customers can be assured we have the products and services to meet their ICT solution needs and that we are continuing to invest in the latest platforms and technologies to deliver the quality and comprehensiveness they have come to rely on."

"The OpSource Cloud combines the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise needs," said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. "By pairing OpSource Cloud's technology with NTT Europe's secure data centre infrastructure, companies can take advantage of a solution that is not only powerful and completely reliable but scalable, removing any remaining barriers to enterprises adopting cloud computing today. We are pleased to work with NTT Europe and look forward to seeing what companies accomplish with its new Public Cloud."

For more information please visit: http://www.eu.ntt.com/en/products/data-centre-services/hosting-service/cloud- computing-and-virtualization-services.html

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About NTT Europe

NTT Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of NTT Communications which is the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT Europe is responsible for business in the EMEA market and provides a world-class Tier-1 Internet backbone, secure closed networks, security, system integration, network and application management, managed hosting and global content delivery services with partner companies globally. For additional information, please visit http://www.eu.ntt.com.

About NTT Communications Corporation, please visit http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html

About OpSource

OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. Its industry-leading Application Operations service goes beyond traditional hosting by providing application management, change management, performance management and application optimization. OpSource Cloud(TM) is the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Founded in 2002, OpSource is SAS 70 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 and European Safe Harbor certified and has operations in California, Virginia, UK, Ireland, and India. For more information, please visit http://www.opsource.net

SOURCE NTT Europe