Cisco Live! Cancun, November 4, 2015.-  Alestra, a long time Cisco Powered™ enabled provider, has signed an agreement with Cisco to deliver hybrid cloud solutions based on Cisco technology, including Cisco Intercloud Fabric (ICF) and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).   

Through this agreement, Alestra integrates its hybrid IT strategy, which complements its cloud ecosystem and anticipates to the entrepreneurship market demand aligned with the industry´s big tendencies on a global scale.

Alestra´s offer will be capable of contributing a greater value to companies’ IT strategies, and communications through diverse hybrid cloud solutions, as well as Unified Communications as a Service, a Cisco Powered Service.

Alestra is a Cisco® Powered services provider for cloud and this new solution deepen its relationship with Cisco and broaden its cloud portfolio offered to customers.

About Cisco ICF and Cisco ACI

·      Cisco Intercloud Fabric is an open, flexible technology that enables freedom in workload placement across private and public clouds. It helps ensure the same network, security and compliance  policies in the public cloud as previously were enforced in private cloud environments.

 ·      Cisco ACI™ is a comprehensive SDN architecture. This policy-based automation solution supports a business-relevant application policy language, greater scalability through a distributed enforcement system, and greater network visibility. These benefits are achieved through the integration of physical and virtual environments under one policy model for networks, servers, storage, services, and security. This allows customers to reduce application deployment times from weeks to minutes, while dramatically improving IT alignment with business objectives and policy requirements.

Supporting Quotes:

·      Rolando Zubirán, Alestra CEO

“Hybrid Cloud is a global trend totally aligned with Alestra’s Cloud Strategy. Becoming Cisco Intercloud partner reinforces Alestra’s positioning as the pioneer of cloud services in Mexico. Alestra has becoming the first service provider to offer to the customers the capability to connect their private infrastructure with our best-of-breed Cisco Cloud Service in a hybrid mode.”

·      Rogelio Velasco, Vicepresident and Director of Cisco México

“Alestra joins the worldwide Intercloud provider ecosystem that is delivering hybrid cloud solutions to customers. Now the differentiated services that Alestra can offer to their customers can secure its’ role as a trusted technology partner who understands their customers’ critical business needs”

About Alestra

Alestra offers the most innovative Information Technology solutions, supported by a practice of Network Managed Services to multinational, small and large companies, as well as institutional clients. Alestra provides: value added services like Data Center, Cloud and Security applications; vertical solutions; in addition to consulting services for designing and managing complex TIC projects. Its leadership is inspired by a constant innovation philosophy and supported by certifications, additionally boosted by alliances with with leading technology suppliers.

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