IO recognized for its ability to optimise digital infrastructure in a seamless manner



SINGAPORE, Oct. 30, 2013 (ANTARA/PRNewswire) -- IO, a global leader in software-defined data centres, today announced that the company has been awarded the 2013 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Product Line Differentiation Award for Data Centre Solutions.

The 2013 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Best Practices Awards, in its sixth consecutive year, recognizes companies across industries commending their diligence, commitment, and innovative business strategies required to advance in the global marketplace.

Frost & Sullivan regards IO's Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS™), IO.Anywhere® and IO.OS® as a holistic data centre solution that uniquely positions IO to cater to the market demands of faster time to market, rapid deployment, business agility and lower costs.

Notably, Frost & Sullivan calls out the IO.OS for being ahead of competitors in terms of capabilities, depth and intelligence.

"IO.OS, the data centre operating system, bridges the gap between managing and monitoring. It allows operators to view not only environmental and physical components but also digital infrastructure." said Mayank Kapoor, Industry Manager -- Data Centre and Cloud Computing, Asia Pacific ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan. "Furthermore, the ability to conduct predictive analysis for different possible scenarios really differentiates the solution in the market."

"It is an honor for IO to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as having successfully established our differentiated positioning in the competitive Asia Pacific data centre market. We are confident that IO's unique ability to innovate IT will deliver unprecedented results for enterprises in the Asia Pacific region," said Adil Attlassy, IO Executive Leader, Global Operations.


About IO Singapore

IO Singapore offers a highly reliable, energy-efficient and secure software-defined data centre that enables cloud-based and legacy IT deployments at any scale. Customers have the flexibility to deploy their infrastructure in a shared environment or within dedicated IO.Anywhere modules and infrastructure. IO Singapore is a carrier-neutral data centre and does not charge monthly recurring fees for cross-connects. IO Singapore offers a 100 percent uptime Service Level Agreement to give customers the confidence that their applications will be always-on.


About IO

IO is a global leader in software-defined data centres and has pioneered the next generation of data centre infrastructure technology. IO's integrated hardware and software data centre technology platform offers enterprises, governments, and service providers an innovative way to deploy, provision, and optimize data centre capacity anywhere in the world. IO technology lowers the total cost of data centre ownership compared to traditional data centres, enabling dynamic deployment and intelligent control based on the needs of IT equipment and applications in the data centre.
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