Responding to increasing demand for hybrid colocation solutions supporting multi-cloud IT strategies, QTS (NYSE: QTS) has announced a strategic partnership with Relus Cloud – a company focused on delivering cloud migrations, DevOps, and data & analytics. Under the partnership agreement, Relus Cloud, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, will provide cloud migration support as part of QTS’ Managed AWS Cloud solution – for customers building a hybrid colocation strategy.
Through the partnership, QTS’ customers would be able to achieve a seamless hybrid management framework improving visibility and control, while reducing costs and simplifying the management of workloads running on AWS Cloud.
“To meet today’s evolving business and IT needs, organizations are turning towards hybrid colocation solutions that support multi-cloud strategies,” said Chris Ortbals, Executive Vice President, Product and Marketing, QTS. “As more workloads are migrated to the cloud, enterprises are realizing they need a partner to handle the growing challenges of managing their AWS environment alongside the rest of their IT infrastructure. QTS is pleased to work with Relus Cloud to support our customers’ unique hybrid IT journey requirements.”
The QTS-Relus Cloud partnership would support QTS’ strategic focus utilizing partners to enhance its hybrid IT infrastructure solutions. The QTS-Relus partnership also leverages QTS’ ongoing collaboration with AWS enabling direct connected colocation to AWS customers.
“We look forward to providing migration and cloud transformation expertise, supporting QTS‘ Managed AWS solutions,” said Mark Metz, CEO of Relus Cloud. “QTS’ mega data centers and integrated services platform provide the necessary scale and direct connectivity to key cloud platforms that are enabling a myriad of hybrid IT solutions.”
