Tata Communications expands cloud offering

MUMBAI: Tata Communications today expanded its cloud offering by launching two new more scalable, cost-effective and instant services--InstaCompute and InstaOffice--to help organisations further enhance their productivity and connectivity.

These offerings, coming from the company's managed services business, are on a self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application and data centre infrastructure services, accessed through the Internet, company president and chief operating officer Vinod Kumar announced at the launch.

InstaCompute provides secure and elastic, on-demand computing and storage resources to businesses over the network as and when they need them. Self-provisioned and completely automated, this pay-per-use service allows organisations to manage their business in line with growing and fluctuating market demands and rapidly evolving technology.

To complement InstaCompute, InstaOffice, which is powered by Google Apps, brings global Internet-based collaboration and office tools to domestic companies, with on-demand ease of use and pricing.

InstaOffice tools include Email and calendar, instant messaging, voice and video chat, as well as office document applications which are accessible to businesses when and where they need them. InstaOffice joins the other InstaApps that the company already offers in the country.

The other services from this portfolio include InstaCC (contact centre), InstaCRM (customer relationship management) and InstaECM (content storage and management), Kumar said.