QTS Expands Its Managed Public Cloud Offerings with Microsoft Azure

QTS, a large data center solutions provider with data center presence across North America, has announced the availability of its QTS Managed Azure Essential service. As the newest member of QTS’ family of managed public cloud solutions, QTS Managed Azure Essential would offer tools to monitor environments, analyze usage, optimize costs and enhance security.

According to QTS, its Managed Azure Essential solution is a key component of QTS’ public cloud infrastructure management strategy. QTS can now seamlessly support the consultation and migration of Microsoft Azure workloads into its Managed Public Cloud solution and provide private connectivity from QTS Data Centers to Microsoft Azure via QTS Switchboard, QTS’ new fully automated interconnection service that connects customers to QTS’ ecosystem of data centers, carriers and public clouds “in minutes.”

As the newest member of QTS’ family of managed public cloud solutions, QTS Managed Azure Essential offers tools to monitor environments, analyze usage, optimize costs and enhance security. The service also includes 24×7 customer support, automated alerts and consolidated billing.

Cloud Service Delivery Platform

Leveraging QTS‘ “innovative” Service Delivery Platform (SDP), QTS provides access to a its Hybrid Cloud Manager which supports multi-cloud views for all QTS managed public cloud and Hosted Private Cloud services.

“Managed Azure is the latest in a growing portfolio of solutions that allow our customers to manage multi-cloud environments,” said Chris Ortbals, Executive Vice President of Product & Marketing, QTS. “Backed by our software-defined Service Delivery Platform, we help automate the management of our customers’ Azure environment by providing industry-leading tools that monitor scalability, performance, cost and security.”